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. 1979 May 15;35(5):579-81.
doi: 10.1007/BF01960329.

Ethanol metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster

M C Deltombe-Lietaert, J Delcour, N Lenelle-Monfort, A Elens

Ethanol metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster

M C Deltombe-Lietaert et al. Experientia. .

Abstract

A quantitative study of the transformation of ethanol into acetaldehyde shows that, in Drosophila melanogaster, the mitochondrial ethanol oxidizing system is not very active but that the part played by catalase appears more important than expected. For a strain without alcoholdehydrogenase, ethanol is highly toxic. The presence of acetaldehyde in the culture medium is toxic for all the strains studied. But, since even a strain without any aldehydeoxidase lives normally, the metabolic production of acetaldehyde does not seem dangerous.

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