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SUBMITTER: Hawwa R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5433624 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics 20090716 2
A new enzyme homologous to phosphotriesterase was identified from the bacterium Geobacillus stearothermophilus (GsP). This enzyme belongs to the amidohydrolase family and possesses the ability to hydrolyze both lactone and organophosphate (OP) compounds, making it a phosphotriesterase-like lactonase (PLL). GsP possesses higher OP-degrading activity than recently characterized PLLs, and it is extremely thermostable. GsP is active up to 100 degrees C with an energy of activation of 8.0 kcal/mol to ...[more]