Comparison of butyrylcholinesterase and acetylcholinesterase.

A Chatonnet, O Lockridge - Biochemical Journal, 1989 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
INTRODUCTION In vertebrates two different enzymes hydrolyse acetylcholine.
Acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1. 1.7; AChE) termi-nates the action of acetylcholine at the post-synaptic …

Review of human butyrylcholinesterase structure, function, genetic variants, history of use in the clinic, and potential therapeutic uses

O Lockridge - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2015 - Elsevier
Phase I clinical trials have shown that pure human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is safe
when administered to humans. A potential therapeutic use of BChE is for prevention of nerve …

Butyrylcholinesterase for protection from organophosphorus poisons: catalytic complexities and hysteretic behavior

P Masson, O Lockridge - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2010 - Elsevier
… out in 18 O-water and compared to aging in 16 O-water. Analysis of tryptic peptides by
MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry provided evidence that dealkylation occurs by breaking of the …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal structure of human butyrylcholinesterase and of its complexes with substrate and products

Y Nicolet, O Lockridge, P Masson… - Journal of Biological …, 2003 - ASBMB
Cholinesterases are among the most efficient enzymes known. They are divided into two
groups: acetylcholinesterase, involved in the hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, …

Acetylcholinesterase knockouts establish central cholinergic pathways and can use butyrylcholinesterase to hydrolyze acetylcholine

…, P Shaw, A Levey, EG Duysen, O Lockridge - neuroscience, 2002 - Elsevier
Acetylcholinesterase is one of the most prominent constituents of central cholinergic pathways.
It terminates the synaptic action of acetylcholine through hydrolysis and yields the choline …

Butyrylcholinesterase, paraoxonase, and albumin esterase, but not carboxylesterase, are present in human plasma

…, EG Duysen, P Masson, O Lockridge - Biochemical …, 2005 - Elsevier
The goal of this work was to identify the esterases in human plasma and to clarify common
misconceptions. The method for identifying esterases was nondenaturing gradient gel …

[HTML][HTML] Complete amino acid sequence of human serum cholinesterase.

O Lockridge, CF Bartels, TA Vaughan, CK Wong… - Journal of Biological …, 1987 - Elsevier
… Ala 1832 Gln 111 Gln 739 br 31 Ro 654 Uu 61 561 R o 681 Gly Ug Lu 238 Lu 241 Ug 199 95
155 154 5 Glu … IS O f 0 M . L nd fm dlgestlon ria I..YL.… IS O f 0 M . L nd fm dlgestlon ria I..YL.…

Abundant tissue butyrylcholinesterase and its possible function in the acetylcholinesterase knockout mouse

…, S Brimijoin, SH Hinrichs, O Lockridge - Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… Jbilo O., Bartels CF, Chatonnet A., Toutant J.-P., and Lockridge O. (1994) Tissue distribution
Lockridge O. (1990) Genetic variants of human serum cholinesterase influence metabolism …

Differences in active site gorge dimensions of cholinesterases revealed by binding of inhibitors to human butyrylcholinesterase

A Saxena, AMG Redman, X Jiang, O Lockridge… - Biochemistry, 1997 - ACS Publications
… with inhibitors were compared using LSQ utilities of program O ( 26). The calculations of the
… of O ( 26), and all of the possible rotamers for each mutation as defined in the database of O

Postnatal developmental delay and supersensitivity to organophosphate in gene-targeted mice lacking acetylcholinesterase

…, P Taylor, SH Hinrichs, O Lockridge - Journal of …, 2000 - ASPET
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE; EC 3.1.1.7 ) is the primary terminator of nerve impulse transmission
at cholinergic synapses and is believed to play an important role in neural development…