Benabent_2014_Toxicol.Lett_230_132

Organophosphorus compounds (OPs) induce neurotoxic disorders through interactions with well-known target esterases, such as acetylcholinesterase and neuropathy target esterase (NTE). However, OPs interact with other esterases of unknown biological function. In soluble chicken brain fractions, three components of enzymatic phenylvalerate esterase activity (PVase) called Ealpha, Ebeta and Egamma, have been kinetically discriminated. These components are studied in this work for the relationship with acetylcholine-hydrolyzing activity. When Ealpha PVase activity (resistant PVase activity to 1500muM PMSF for 30min) was tested with different acetylthiocholine concentrations, inhibition was observed. The best-fitting model to the data was the non-competitive inhibition model (Km=0.12, 0.22mM, Ki=6.6, 7.6mM). Resistant acetylthiocholine-hydrolyzing activity to 1500muM PMSF was inhibited by phenylvalerate showing competitive inhibition (Km=0.09, 0.11mM; Ki=1.7, 2.2mM). Ebeta PVase activity (resistant PVase activity to 25muM mipafox for 30min) was not affected by the presence of acetylthiocholine, while resistant acetylthiocholine-hydrolyzing activity to 25muM mipafox showed competitive inhibition in the presence of phenylvalerate (Km=0.05, 0.06mM; Ki=0.44, 0.58mM). The interactions observed between the substrates of AChE and PVase suggest that part of PVase activity might be a protein with acetylthiocholine-hydrolyzing activity.