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Highest paraoxonase turnover rate found in a bacterial phosphotriesterase variant.
Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS - 1 Jan 2011
Briseño-Roa Luis, Oliynyk Zoryana, Timperley Christopher M, Griffiths Andrew D, Fersht Alan R
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The bacterial phosphotriesterase (PTE) catalyses the hydrolysis of the man-made pesticide paraoxon with a diffusion-limited efficiency. Here we describe the selection and characterisation of PTE variant SS0.2 that possesses the highest paraoxonase turnover number so far described (k(cat) = 31,000...
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