This study demonstrates for the first time that a thioether-containing peptide, an azurin fragment, can be translocated via the Sec pathway. This methyl-lanthionine was introduced by the nisin modification enzymes. The Sec pathway can therefore be a successful alternative for those cyclized peptides that are inefficiently transported via NisT.

We have devised a protocol for enzyme-free insertion of dehydroalanine, dehydrobutyrine and thioether crosslinks into translated peptides. In vitro translation using 4-selenalysine and 4-selenoisoleucine as substitutes for lysine and isoleucine yields peptides that can be converted to polycyclic structures using mild chemistry in water. This methodology presents a gateway for exploring the pote...

The mononuclear Pd(ii) complex cis-[PdCl(2)([9]aneS(3))]([9]aneS(3)= 1,4,7-trithiacyclononane) converts at 44 kbar pressure into an intensely coloured chain polymer, which exhibits distorted octahedral co-ordination at the metal centre and an unprecedented [1233] conformation for the thioether crown.

We have described the first successful application of non-N-donor heterodonor ligands--thioether-phosphite ligands--in the Ir-catalyzed hydrogenation of minimally functionalized olefins. Excellent enantioselectivities (ee's up to 99%) have been obtained for a range of substrates, including challenging terminal disubstituted substrates, under standard conditions.

A series of 2-alkylsulfanyl-4-(4-fluorophenyl)-5-(2-aminopyridin-4-yl)-substituted imidazoles was prepared and interaction possibilities of the 2-thioether moiety with phosphate/ribose binding pockets of p38 MAP kinase were investigated. Introduction of the alkyl/benzyl amino function at the pyridine moiety was carried out via nucleophilic substitution or via palladium catalyzed aryl-C-N-bond f...

Gallidermin (Gdm) and epidermin (Epi) are highly homologous tetracyclic polypeptide antibiotics that are ribosomally synthesized by a Staphylococcus gallinarum strain and a Staphylococcus epidermidis strain, respectively. These antibiotics are secreted into media and are distinguished by the presence of the unusual amino acids lanthionine, 3-methyllanthionine, didehydrobutyrine, and S-(2-aminov...

OBJECTIVE Oral cancer is the leading malignancy in India, with tobacco playing a major role in the etiology. The aim of the present study was to quantify nitrate+nitrite (NO2+NO3) in tobacco products as well as to study tobacco exposure related biomarkers in controls, patients with oral precancers (OPC) and oral cancer patients. MATERIALS & METHODS Healthy individuals (n=90) were grouped into...

The specificity of the cleavage of thioether compounds related to cysteine by an enzyme from liver tissue of rats was described in an earlier report (I), and experiments as to the availability of thioether derivatives of cysteine and homocysteine for growth have been reported from this laboratory (2). This report is concerned with a brief description of studies of the cleavage of t.he thioether...

The serotonergic neurotoxicity of 3,4-(+/-)-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) appears dependent upon systemic metabolism because direct injection of MDMA into the brain fails to reproduce the neurotoxicity. MDMA is demethylenated to the catechol metabolite N-methyl-alpha-methyldopamine (N-Me-alpha-MeDA). Thioether (glutathione and N-acetylcysteine) metabolites of N-Me-alpha-MeDA are neurotox...