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The search of the target of promotion: Phenylbenzoate esterase activities in hen peripheral nerve.

Abstract
Certain esterase inhibitors, such as carbamates, phosphinates and sulfonyl halides, do not cause neuropathy as some organophosphates, but they may exacerbate chemical or traumatic insults to axons. This phenomenon is called promotion of axonopathies. Given the biochemical and toxicological characteristics of these compounds, the hypothesis was made that the target of promotion is a phenyl valerate (PV) esterase similar to neuropathy target esterase (NTE), the target of organophosphate induced delayed polyneuropathy. However, attempts to identify a PV esterase in hen peripheral nerve have been, so far, unsuccessful. We tested several esters, other than PV, as substrates of esterases from crude homogenate of the hen peripheral nerve. The ideal substrate should be poorly hydrolysed by NTE but extensively by enzyme(s) that are insensitive to non-promoters, such as mipafox, and sensitive to promoters, such as phenyl methane sulfonyl fluoride (PMSF). When phenyl benzoate (PB) was used as substrate, about 65% of total activity was resistant to the non-promoter mipafox (up to 0.5 mM, 20 min, pH 8.0), that inhibits NTE and other esterases. More than 90% of this resistant activity was sensitive to the classical promoter PMSF (1 mM, 20 min, pH 8.0) with an IC(50) of about 0.08 mM (20 min, pH 8.0). On the contrary, the non-promoter p-toluene sulfonyl fluoride caused only about 10% inhibition at 0.5 mM. Several esterase inhibitors including, paraoxon, phenyl benzyl carbamate, di-n-butyl dichlorovinyl phosphate and di-isopropyl fluorophosphate, were tested both in vitro and in vivo for inhibition of this PB activity. Mipafox-resistant PMSF-sensitive PB esterase activity(ies) was inhibited by promoters but not by non promoters and neuropathic compounds.
AuthorsA Moretto, A Nicolli, M Lotti
JournalToxicology and applied pharmacology (Toxicol Appl Pharmacol) Vol. 219 Issue 2-3 Pg. 196-201 (Mar 2007) ISSN: 0041-008X [Print] United States
PMID17207828 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Benzoates
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Isoflurophate
  • mipafox
  • Phenylmethylsulfonyl Fluoride
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
  • neurotoxic esterase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Benzoates (toxicity)
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases (antagonists & inhibitors)
  • Chickens
  • Enzyme Inhibitors (toxicity)
  • Isoflurophate (analogs & derivatives, toxicity)
  • Phenylmethylsulfonyl Fluoride (toxicity)
  • Sciatic Nerve (drug effects, enzymology)
  • Substrate Specificity

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