Lantibiotics are lanthionine-containing peptide antibiotics. Nisin, encoded by nisA, is a pentacyclic lantibiotic produced by some Lactococcus lactis strains. Its thioether rings are posttranslationally introduced by a membrane-bound enzyme complex. This complex is composed of three enzymes: NisB, which dehydrates serines and threonines; NisC, which couples these dehydrated residues to cysteine...

Cell-free extracts from Escherichia coli cleave the thioether linkage of S-ribosylhomocysteine and generate free homocysteine. Homocysteine was quantitatively recovered from reaction mixtures by ion exchange chromatography on Amberlite CG-120 resin. Free ribose was not a product of this cleavage; however, a compound initially derived from the ribose moiety of S-ribosylhomocysteine has been isol...

Residue Asn57 of bovine liver cytochrome b5 has been replaced with a cysteine residue, and the resulting variant has been isolated from recombinant Escherichia coli as a mixture of four major species: A, BI, BII, and C. A combination of electronic spectroscopy, 1H NMR spectroscopy, resonance Raman spectroscopy, electrospray mass spectrometry, and direct electrochemistry has been used to charact...

Recombinant ricin A chain was chemically linked to monoclonal antibodies directed toward human breast cancer cells, a human T-cell differentiation antigen, and mouse transferrin receptor. Three types of immunotoxins were prepared; in two of them the antibody was linked to recombinant ricin A chain by a disulfide bond and in the third, a nonreducible thioether bond was used. Immunotoxins contain...

Cell-free extracts from Escherichia coli cleave the thioether linkage of S-ribosylhomocysteine and generate free homocysteine. Homocysteine was quantitatively recovered from reaction mixtures by ion exchange chromatography on Amberlite CG-120 resin. Free ribose was not a product of this cleavage; however, a compound initially derived from the ribose moiety of S-ribosylhomocysteine has been isol...

At present, thiol ligands are generally used whenever the classical Brust-Schiffrin two-phase method is employed to prepare metal nanoparticles. In general, the previous research was mainly focused on utilizing small molecular thiol compounds or thiol polymers as the stabilizers in organic phase to obtain small sized and uniform gold nanoparticles (Au NPs). Such preparations are usually associa...

Thioether-containing poly(para-phenylene-ethynylene) (PPE) copolymers show a strong fluorescence turn-on response when exposed to oxidants in solution as a result of the selective conversion of thioether substituents into sulfoxides and sulfones. We propose that the increase in fluorescence quantum yield (Phi(F)) upon oxidation is the result of both an increase in the rate of fluorescence (k(F)...

Recent single-molecule experiments indicated that thioethers (dialkyl sulfides) on gold surfaces act as thermallyor mechanically activated molecular rotors, although the mechanisms for these phenomena are not yet clearly understood. Here we present theoretical and experimental investigations of the rotational dynamics of these thioether molecules. Single-molecule studies utilizing low-temperatu...

Effective methods of ligand design have been highly sought due to the significant roles of ligands in controlling metal catalyses. In particular, easy-to-handle ligands to realize high reaction efficacy, substrate tolerance, and environmental friendliness are desirable. Novel bidentate ligands containing N-heterocyclic carbene and thioether moieties were developed based on findings of hemilabil...

Three phenothiazine (PTZ) derivatives with varying degrees of sulfur oxidation states were synthesized as strong electron donors. The thioether, sulfoxide and sulfone PTZ-derivatives exhibited irreversible oxidation at 0.19 V, 0.29 V and 0.31 V versus ferrocene, respectively. Each PTZ derivative was emissive with lifetimes of 1.7 ns, 0.5 ns, and 0.5 ns and absolute quantum yields of 0.32, 0.23 ...