4m0e

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Template:STRUCTURE 4m0e

Contents 1 Structure of human acetylcholinesterase in complex with dihydrotanshinone I 2 Function 3 About this Structure 4 Reference

Structure of human acetylcholinesterase in complex with dihydrotanshinone I

Function

[ACES_HUMAN] Terminates signal transduction at the neuromuscular junction by rapid hydrolysis of the acetylcholine released into the synaptic cleft. Role in neuronal apoptosis.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

About this Structure

4m0e is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.

Reference

1. ↑ Chhajlani V, Derr D, Earles B, Schmell E, August T. Purification and partial amino acid sequence analysis of human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase. FEBS Lett. 1989 Apr 24;247(2):279-82. PMID:2714437
2. ↑ Velan B, Grosfeld H, Kronman C, Leitner M, Gozes Y, Lazar A, Flashner Y, Marcus D, Cohen S, Shafferman A. The effect of elimination of intersubunit disulfide bonds on the activity, assembly, and secretion of recombinant human acetylcholinesterase. Expression of acetylcholinesterase Cys-580----Ala mutant. J Biol Chem. 1991 Dec 15;266(35):23977-84. PMID:1748670
3. ↑ Shafferman A, Kronman C, Flashner Y, Leitner M, Grosfeld H, Ordentlich A, Gozes Y, Cohen S, Ariel N, Barak D, et al.. Mutagenesis of human acetylcholinesterase. Identification of residues involved in catalytic activity and in polypeptide folding. J Biol Chem. 1992 Sep 5;267(25):17640-8. PMID:1517212
4. ↑ Yang L, He HY, Zhang XJ. Increased expression of intranuclear AChE involved in apoptosis of SK-N-SH cells. Neurosci Res. 2002 Apr;42(4):261-8. PMID:11985878