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  • Title: Purification and properties of soman-hydrolyzing enzyme from human liver.
    Author: Wang Q, Sun M, Zhang H, Huang C.
    Journal: J Biochem Mol Toxicol; 1998; 12(4):213-7. PubMed ID: 9580873.
    Abstract:
    A soman-hydrolyzing enzyme (somanase) was purified from human liver. The human somanase is capable of hydrolyzing pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate (soman), diisopropylphosphorofluoridate (DFP), and ethyl-N-dimethyl phosphoramidocyanidate (Tabun) with P-F or P-CN bonding, but not ethyl (S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothiolate (VX) and diethyl-p-nitro-phosphenylphosphate (paraoxon) with P-S or P-O bonding. The somanase has been purified 1570-fold with a specific activity of 41.4 mumol/min/mg protein. Its molecular weight is around 58 kDa determined by SDS-PAGE. The somanase could be stimulated by the divalent cations Mn+2, Mg+2, and Co+2, where CO+2 activation is the highest. The requirement of disulfide bonds for the enzyme activity was demonstrated by the inhibition effect of DTT.
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