Pyrazine-derived disulfide-reducing agent for chemical biology
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Pyrazine-derived disulfide-reducing agent for chemical biology.
For fifty years, dithiothreitol (DTT) has been the preferred reagent for the reduction of disulfide bonds in proteins and other biomolecules. Herein we report on the synthesis and characterization of 2,3-bis(mercaptomethyl)pyrazine (BMMP), a readily accessible disulfide-reducing agent with reactivity under biological conditions that is markedly superior to DTT and other known reagents.
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemical Communications
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1359-7345,1364-548X
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc04491f