Cholinesterases spontaneous reactivation

On comparison of cholinesterase activities In the brain on various days after gavage with parathlon at 35 mg/kg and after exposure of a homogenate of brain in vitro to 10 M 2-PAM-1, the reactivation accomplished by the oxime was found to decrease progressively as spontaneous reactivation increased ... 

Reiner E. Spontaneous reactivation of phosphorylated and carbamylated cholinesterases. Bull. World Health Org.,... 

Dilution of the sample will slow down further cholinesterase inhibition and further oxime reactivation because both reactions depend on the concentrations of the inhibitor and oxime (Eqs. 4 and 8). However, spontaneous reactivation will continue irrespective of dilution (Eq. 6). Because all reactions arc temperature dependent, samples can be stored at a low temperature but not below zero if one wants to have nonhemolyzed erythrocytes. All three reactions are also pH dependent. Oximes reactivate when they are deproto-nated, and lowering the pH therefore decreases rates of oxime reactivation. The pH profiles of inhibition and spontaneous reactivation depend on the structure of the inhibitor, but for the majority of compounds these rates decrease with decreasing pH. BkHxl samples can therefore be diluted with a buffer of pH between 5 and 6. If cholinestera.se activities are measured in haemoly.sed blood, dilution with water is. suggested, and these samples may be stored below zero. 

Mason, H. J., Waine, E., Stevenson, A., and Wilson, H. K. (1993). Aging and spontaneous reactivation of human plasma cholinesterase activity after inhibition by organophosphorus pesticides. Hum. Exp. Toxicol. 12, 497-503. 

Because atropine has never been found to have reactivating activity in vitro, the reactivation that occurred in the rats treated with atropine sulfate is assumed to be spontaneous. It is apparent from Table 3 that addition of 2-PAM I to atropine increased cholinesterase reactivation by 40.5% in the parotid gland, by 127.8% in the gastrocnemius muscle, and by 8.2% in the brain. The especially large change in cholinesterase activity in skeletal muscle suggests that this may be the principal site at which 2-PAM I antagonizes inhibition of cholinesterase. 

Karlog, 0., Poulsen, E. 1963. Spontaneous and pralidoxlme induced reactivation of brain cholinesterase In the chick after fatal nltrostlgmlne poisoning. Acta Pharmacol. Toxicol. 20 174-180. 

CHOLINESTERASE REACTIVATORS Although the phosphorylated esteratic site of AChE undergoes hydrolytic regeneration at a slow or negligible rate, nucleophilic agents, such as hydroxylamine (NH OH), hydroxamic adds (RCONH-OH), and oximes (RCH=NOH), reactivate the enzyme more rapidly than does spontaneous hydrolysis. Reactivation with prahdoxime (Figure 8-1E) occurs at a million times the rate of that with hydroxylamine. Several h/s-quaternary oximes are even more potent as reactivators for insectidde and nerve gas poisoning (e.g., HI-6, used in Europe as an antidote). 

The biomolecular inhibition rate constant (ifj) describes both the affinity and the rate of cholinesterase phosphorylation and is an indicator of inhibitory potency (Kousba et al 2004 Kardos and Sultatos, 2000 Amitai et al., 1998 Carr and Chambers, 1996). A typical determination is illustrated in Fig. 10 for the in vitro inhibition of rat BuChE with chlorpyrifos-oxon. In this example, the Kj was determined by incubating BuChE with varying concentrations of ehloropyrifos-oxon (0.25-5 nAf) the maximum inhibition ranged from 10 to 90% during a 7- to 30-min incubation period (Kousba et al., 2003). The slopes obtained from this analy.sis were then analyzed by linear regression to calculate a K (Fig. lOB). Similar in vitro approaches have been used to calculate the spontaneous first-order reactivation... 

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