Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Biochemical and biological background
  • Overview of cholinesterases
  • Biochemically defined subsites and their roles in hydrolysis activity
  • Anticholinesterases
  • Cell type and subcellular localization of cholinesterases
  • Molecular polymorphism and its genomic origin
  • Putative biological roles of cholinesterases
  • Evolutionary divergence and conservation of cholinesterases
  • Genetic variants of human cholinesterases
  • Cholinesterases and disease states
  • Human cholinesterase genes and their expression
  • Molecular cloning and expression of human cholinesterase coding sequences
  • Promoter elements and alternative splicing in the human acetylcholinesterase gene
  • Search for molecular origins of butyrylcholinesterase polymorphism by cDNA screening, deletion mutagenesis, and xenopus oocyte co-injection
  • Chromosomal localization of human cholinesterase genes
  • Genomic origin of butyrylcholinesterase variants: multiple point mutations in the butyrylcholinesterase
  • Structure-function relationships in human butyrylcholinesterase variants.
  • (cont) Manipulations of butyrylcholinesterase gene expression modulate murine megakaryocytopoiesis in vitro
  • In vivo amplification of the human cholinesterase genes
  • Scientific and environmental implications
  • Human acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase genes: comparative analysis
  • Expression of recombinant acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase in microinjected xenopus oocytes
  • Unusual tumor butyrylcholinesterase mRNA transcripts
  • In ovo expression of human butyrylcholinesterase muteins reveals structure-function relationships
  • Isolation of mutated butyrylcholinesterase sequences from cDNA libraries and their detection in genomic DNA
  • Putative involvement of cholinesterases in development
  • Modifications in the human cholinesterase genes
  • Pollution and ecological implications.