An improved cocaine hydrolase: the A328Y mutant of human butyrylcholinesterase is 4-fold more efficient.

doi:10.1124/mol.55.1.83

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An improved cocaine hydrolase: the A328Y mutant of human butyrylcholinesterase is 4-fold more efficient.

Molecular pharmacology - 1 Jan 1999

Xie W, Altamirano C V, Bartels C F, Speirs R J, Cashman J R, Lockridge O

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Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) has a major role in cocaine detoxication. The rate at which human BChE hydrolyzes cocaine is slow, with a kcat of 3.9 min(-1) and Km of 14 microM. Our goal was to improve cocaine hydrolase activity by mutating residues near the active site. The mutant A328Y had a kcat...

Topics

Animals
Binding Sites
Butyrylcholinesterase
Catalysis
Chickens
Cocaine
Drug Overdose
Genetic Variation
Horses
Humans
Hydrolysis
Mutation

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