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Purification and properties of a diisopropyl-fluorophosphatase from squid Todarodes pacificus steenstrup.

A diisopropyl-fluorophosphatase (DFPase) was purified from brain and ganglia of squid Todarodes pacificus steenstrup. The DFPase had a preference in hydrolysis toward diisopropylphosphorofluoridate (DFP). It also was able to hydrolyze O-1,2,2-trimethylpropyl methylphosphofluoridate (soman) and O-isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate (sarin) at nearly equal hydrolytic rates but only 1/10 that of DFP. The hydrolytic activity toward diethyl-p-nitrophenylphosphate (paraoxon) was very low compared with DFP, soman, and sarin. The DFPase was purified 330-fold to a specific activity of 18,300 n mol/min/mg protein. Its molecular weight was 34,000 dalton determined by gel-filtration chromatography. Mn2+ stimulation of the DFPase was not observed when DFP and soman were the substrates, but with sarin, the rate increased onefold in the presence of 1.0 mM of Mn2+. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid disodium (EDTA-Na2) at 0.05 M inhibited the DFPase activity about 30%. It could be concluded that this DFPase belongs to the squid-type DFPase.

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