18840-45-4Relevant articles and documents
A new mixed disulphide: penicillamine-cysteine.
TABACHNICK,EISEN,LEVINE
, p. 701 - 702 (1954)
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Purdie,J.W.
, p. 1029 - 1036 (1969)
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Rethinking Cysteine Protective Groups: S-Alkylsulfonyl-l-Cysteines for Chemoselective Disulfide Formation
Sch?fer, Olga,Huesmann, David,Muhl, Christian,Barz, Matthias
supporting information, p. 18085 - 18091 (2016/12/16)
The ability to reversibly cross-link proteins and peptides grants the amino acid cysteine its unique role in nature as well as in peptide chemistry. We report a novel class of S-alkylsulfonyl-l-cysteines and N-carboxy anhydrides (NCA) thereof for peptide synthesis. The S-alkylsulfonyl group is stable against amines and thus enables its use under Fmoc chemistry conditions and the controlled polymerization of the corresponding NCAs yielding well-defined homo- as well as block co-polymers. Yet, thiols react immediately with the S-alkylsulfonyl group forming asymmetric disulfides. Therefore, we introduce the first reactive cysteine derivative for efficient and chemoselective disulfide formation in synthetic polypeptides, thus bypassing additional protective group cleavage steps.
Keactions of cysteine sulfenyl thiocyanate with thiols to give unsymmetrical disulfides
Alguindigue Nimmo, Susan L.,Lemma, Kelemu,Ashby, Michael T.
, p. 467 - 471 (2008/02/08)
Cysteine sulfenyl thiocyanate (CSSCN) reacts with thiols at pH 0 to cleanly yield disulfides. 2-Mercaptoethanol (2-MESH), 3-mercaptopropionic acid (3-MPASH), penicillamine (PENSH), and glutathione (GSH) react with CSSCN to give the corresponding mixed disulfides: 2-MESSC, 3-MPASSC, PENSSC, and GSSC. These compounds are stable at pH 0 and have been characterized by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy.