EC 3.1.1.7: Acetylcholinesterase
Reaction catalysed:
Acetylcholine + H(2)O = choline + acetate
Systematic name:
Acetylcholine acetylhydrolase
Alternative Name(s):
- AcCholE
- Acetyl.beta-methylcholinesterase
- Acetylcholine hydrolase
- Acetylthiocholinesterase
- Choline esterase I
- Cholinesterase
- True cholinesterase
GO terms
Biochemical function:
- carboxylic ester hydrolase activity
- obsolete protein self-association
- laminin binding
- protein homodimerization activity
- identical protein binding
- acetylcholine binding
- choline binding
- serine hydrolase activity
- hydrolase activity
- collagen binding
- protein binding
- cholinesterase activity
- acetylcholinesterase activity
Biological process:
- positive regulation of cold-induced thermogenesis
- acetylcholine receptor signaling pathway
- retina development in camera-type eye
- positive regulation of dendrite morphogenesis
- positive regulation of axonogenesis
- response to insulin
- receptor internalization
- choline metabolic process
- acetylcholine metabolic process
- synapse assembly
- cell adhesion
- acetylcholine catabolic process
- osteoblast development
- regulation of receptor recycling
Cellular component:
- side of membrane
- perinuclear region of cytoplasm
- postsynaptic membrane
- synapse
- synaptic cleft
- neuronal cell body
- presynaptic membrane
- neuromuscular junction
- dendrite
- axon
- membrane
- cell surface
- plasma membrane
- Golgi apparatus
- endoplasmic reticulum lumen
- nuclear envelope
- extracellular space
- basement membrane
- extracellular region