Aldridge W N, Johnson M K
Bull World Health Organ. 1971;44(1-3):259-63.
Many organophosphorus compounds produce a chronic toxicity that has been classified as a dying-back process in which the long axons are particularly affected. Recent evidence indicates that an essential first step in the production of the lesion is the phosphorylation of a protein that is able to hydrolyse substrates such as phenyl phenylacetate. The esterase activity of the protein is inhibited by this phosphorylation, presumably at the active site. However, the toxic effect is related only to phosphorylation and not to loss of esterase activity.
许多有机磷化合物会产生一种慢性毒性,这种毒性已被归类为一种轴突退变过程,其中长轴突受到的影响尤为明显。最近的证据表明,产生这种损伤的一个关键的第一步是一种能够水解诸如苯乙酸苯酯等底物的蛋白质发生磷酸化。该蛋白质的酯酶活性被这种磷酸化抑制,推测是在活性位点。然而,毒性作用仅与磷酸化有关,而与酯酶活性的丧失无关。