This is where the enzyme acetylcholinesterase comes in. This enzyme can break down thousands of acetylcholine molecules per second to ensure muscle contraction is stopped, paralysis avoided and ...

Designing enzymes, unfortunately, is very hard. It’s like working with an atom-sized Lego set, but the instructions are lost ...

Reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (benzazepine deriv). Galantamine, a tertiary alkaloid, is a competitive and reversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase. While the precise mechanism of ...