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ReviewJournal of neurochemistry2021

Cryo-electron microscopy of cholinesterases, present and future.

Miguel Ricardo Leung, Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai

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Review in Journal of neurochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Miguel Ricardo LeungCryo-Electron Microscopy, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3348-1096
Tzviya Zeev-Ben-MordehaiCryo-Electron Microscopy, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2571-550X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) exist in a variety of oligomeric forms, each with defined cellular and subcellular distributions. Although crystal structures of AChE and BChE have been available for many years, structures of the physiologically relevant ChE tetramer were only recently solved by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) single-particle analysis. Here, we briefly review how these structures contribute to our understanding of cholinesterase oligomerization, highlighting the advantages of using cryo-EM to resolve structures of protein assemblies that cannot be expressed recombinantly. We argue that the next frontier in cholinesterase structural biology is to image membrane-anchored ChE oligomers directly in their native environment-the cell.

Indexed as

AcetylcholinesteraseAnimalsButyrylcholinesteraseCholinesterase InhibitorsCholinesterasesCryoelectron MicroscopyForecastingHumansProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryAcetylcholinesteraseButyrylcholinesteraseCholinesterase InhibitorsCholinesterasescholinesterasecryo-electron microscopycryo-electron tomography

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PMID33222205
PMCPMC8518539

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