Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tsurkan LG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3582710 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsurkan Lyudmila G LG Hatfield M Jason MJ Edwards Carol C CC Hyatt Janice L JL Potter Philip M PM
Chemico-biological interactions 20121102 1
Carboxylesterases (CEs) are ubiquitously expressed proteins that are responsible for the detoxification of xenobiotics. They tend to be expressed in tissues likely to be exposed to such agents (e.g., lung and gut epithelia, liver) and can hydrolyze numerous agents, including many clinically used drugs. Due to the considerable structural similarity between cholinesterases (ChE) and CEs, we have assessed the ability of a series of ChE inhibitors to modulate the activity of the human liver (hCE1) a ...[more]