Butanol-1 and butandiol-1,4 are shown to increase the decarbamoylation rate of N-methylcarbamoyl- and N,N-dimethylcarbamoyl-cholinesterase. It is mainly due to the formation of a ternary complex NEA which is decomposed in 2,5 times faster than corbamoyl-enzyme EA. This is an evidence for the presence of some allosteric center in cholinesterase which is capable of binding alcohols.
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