Page 137 - The Miraculous Machine that Works for an Entire Lifetime: Enzyme

Adnan Oktar

Synaptic cleft
Postsynaptic membrane
Presynaptic
membrane

Synaptic vesicles

Mitochondrion
Axon

Dendrite
Synaptic cleft Nerve cell
body
Synaptic vesicles

Acetylcholinesterase enzymes tear into the acetylcholine molecules at great speed,
and have been calculated to destroy some 25,000 molecules a second. In other
words, an enzyme esterase breaks down an acetylcholine molecule in approximately
40 milliseconds.

has to be cleared before another signal arrives, or otherwise, the mes-
sages will become mixed up. For nerves that must sometimes transmit
500 signals a second, this means that numerous acetylcholine transmit-
ters have to be wiped every millisecond.
Acetylcholinesterase enzymes have been created in such a manner
that they can do this. These catalysts tear into the acetylcholine mole-
cules at enormous speed. Biochemists have calculated that they destroy
25,000 molecules every second. Viewed from another perspective, each
esterase enzyme breaks down an acetylcholine molecule in around 40
milliseconds. 83
Many times here, it has been repeated that if even a single enzyme
loses its important function, the living organism will start to die, be-
cause our lives depend upon these peerless entities so many billions of
times smaller than us and their constant activity in our bodies. By itself,

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