TABLE 1

Aldehyde dehydrogenase genes of S. cerevisiae

ORF name^a	Gene name	Subcellular localization	Function^b
YMR170c	ALD2	Cytosolic	β-Alanine biosynthesis
YMR169c	ALD3	Cytosolic	β-Alanine biosynthesis
YOR374w	ALD4	Mitochondrial	Acetate biosynthesis
YER073w	ALD5	Mitochondrial	Mitochondrial function
YPL061w	ALD6	Cytosolic	Acetate biosynthesis
YHR039c^c	MSC7	Unknown	Meiotic recombination
YMR110c^c	—	Unknown	Unknown

ORF, open reading frame.
↵^a Open reading frame designations used in the YPD (Hodges et al. 1999) and SGD (http://genome-www.stanford.edu/Saccharomyces/).
↵^b Functions reported previously (see Introduction), except for β-alanine biosynthesis, which is the subject of this report.
↵^c Putative aldehyde dehydrogenase genes.