Title : Is aromaticity essential for trapping the catalytic histidine 447 in human acetylcholinesterase?

Pub. Date : 2004 Mar 23

PMID : 15023064






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1 Is aromaticity essential for trapping the catalytic histidine 447 in human acetylcholinesterase? Histidine acetylcholinesterase (Cartwright blood group) Homo sapiens
2 Replacement of both the acyl pocket residue Phe295 as well as residue Phe338, adjacent to the catalytic His447 in human acetylcholinesterase (HuAChE), resulted in a 680-fold decline in catalytic activity due to conformational destabilization of the histidine side chain [Barak et al. Histidine acetylcholinesterase (Cartwright blood group) Homo sapiens