Journal
PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 6, Pages 565-576Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-013-0021-8
Keywords
Cholinesterase; GDS(L)lipase; Serine hydrolase
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- National Institutes of Health CounterACT Program through the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [U-54-NSO58183-01, W81XWH-07-2-0023]
- Arizona State University's School of Life Sciences Completion Research Assistantship scholarship
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Acetylcholinesterase is an enzyme that is intimately associated with regulation of synaptic transmission in the cholinergic nervous system and in neuromuscular junctions of animals. However the presence of cholinesterase activity has been described also in non-metazoan organisms such as slime molds, fungi and plants. More recently, a gene purportedly encoding for acetylcholinesterase was cloned from maize. We have cloned the Arabidopsis thaliana homolog of the Zea mays gene, At3g26430, and studied its biochemical properties. Our results indicate that the protein encoded by the gene exhibited lipase activity with preference to long chain substrates but did not hydrolyze choline esters. The At3g26430 protein belongs to the SGNH clan of serine hydrolases, and more specifically to the GDS(L) lipase family.
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