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Lessons from a bacterial cocaine esterase

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The structure of a bacterial cocaine esterase provides important new insight into the selectivity of the carboxylesterase enzyme family and the information gained from this work could lead to improved catalytic antibody-based therapies for cocaine toxicity.

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Figure 1: The chemical structure of cocaine as recognized by different carboxylesterases.

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