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A butyrylcholinesterase of mol.wt. approx. 83000 was observed in pooled rabbit serum. The enzyme was named monomeric butyrylcholinesterase to distinguish it from the larger oligomeric butyrylcholinesterase of horse and human serum whose subunits are the same size as the monomeric enzyme. The active-site concentration of monomeric butyrylcholinesterase in the pooled serum was 0.18mum, which is five times the concentration of butyrylcholinesterase in pooled horse serum. This was surprising, since the horse serum is regarded as a rich source of butyrylcholinesterase, whereas rabbit serum is not generally thought to contain significant amounts of any butyrylcholinesterase. The explanation, in large part, was the relatively low k(cat.) of the monomeric enzyme, which was approx. 57s(-1) with butyrylthiocholine as substrate and is one-thirtieth of the comparable k(cat.) of horse butyrylcholinesterase. The substrate specificity of monomeric butyrylcholinesterase also differed significantly from that of horse and human butyrylcholinesterase. For example, with the monomeric enzyme, the hydrolysis of 1mm-acetylthiocholine was only 4% the rate for 1mm-butyrylthiocholine, whereas human and horse butyrylcholinesterases hydrolysed 1mm-acetylthiocholine at 50% of the rate for 1mm-butyrylthiocholine. Moreover, monomeric butyrylcholinesterase generally hydrolysed aromatic esters more rapidly than choline esters, whereas the reverse is true of the butyrylcholinesterases. To facilitate the study of monomeric butyrylcholinesterase, it was separated from the larger butyrylcholinesterase and acetylcholinesterase, also present in rabbit serum, and purified 89-fold by fractionation with (NH(4))(2)SO(4) and ion-exchange chromatography.

A subunit-sized butyrylcholinesterase present in high concentrations in pooled rabbit serum