| Carboxylesterase | |||||||||
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 Structure of ethylphosphorylated Butyrylcholinesterase. | |||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | COesterase | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00135 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR002018 | ||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00112 | ||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1acj / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||
| OPM superfamily | 127 | ||||||||
| OPM protein | 1p0i | ||||||||
| CDD | cd00312 | ||||||||
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Carboxylesterase, type B is a family of evolutionarily related proteins that belongs to the superfamily of proteins with the Alpha/beta hydrolase fold.
Higher eukaryotes have many distinct esterases. The different types include those that act on carboxylic esters (EC 3.1.1). Carboxyl-esterases have been classified into three categories (A, B and C) on the basis of differential patterns of inhibition by organophosphates. The sequence of a number of type-B carboxylesterases indicates that the majority are evolutionarily related. As is the case for lipases and serine proteases, the catalytic apparatus of esterases involves three residues (catalytic triad): a serine, a glutamate or aspartate and a histidine.
Subfamilies
Examples
Human genes that encode proteins containing the carboxylesterase domain include:
See also
References
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- Chatonnet A, Krejci E, Duval N, Vincens P, Massoulie J (1991). "Cholinesterase-like domains in enzymes and structural proteins: functional and evolutionary relationships and identification of a catalytically essential aspartic acid". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88 (15): 6647–6651. Bibcode:1991PNAS...88.6647K. doi:10.1073/pnas.88.15.6647. PMC 52145. PMID 1862088.
- Sussman JL, Cygler M, Harel M, Silman I, Schrag JD, Doctor BP, Gentry MK (1993). "Relationship between sequence conservation and three-dimensional structure in a large family of esterases, lipases, and related proteins". Protein Sci. 2 (3): 366–382. doi:10.1002/pro.5560020309. PMC 2142374. PMID 8453375.