Inflammatory signaling pathways orchestrate the cellular response to infection and injury. These pathways are known to be modulated by compounds that alkylate cysteinyl thiols. One class of phytochemicals with strong thiol alkylating activity is the chalcones. In this study we tested fourteen chalcone derivatives, α-X-substituted 2',3,4,4'-tetramethoxychalcones (α-X-TMCs, X = H, F, Cl, Br, I, C...

Selective covalent bond formation at a protein-protein interface potentially can be achieved by genetically introducing into a protein an appropriately "tuned" electrophilic unnatural amino acid that reacts with a native nucleophilic residue in its cognate receptor upon complex formation. We have evolved orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase/tRNACUA pairs that genetically encode three aza-Michae...

Protonation of the highly reactive 1:1 intermediates, produced in the reaction between triphenylphosphine and acetylenic esters, by NH-acids such as azathioprine, imidazole or theophylline leads to the formation of vinyltriphenylphosphonium salts, which undergo a Michael addition reaction with a conjugate base to produce phosphorus ylides. Silica nanoparticles (silica NPs were prepared by therm...

This study adds thiolactones to the collection of cascade exchangers (CAXs) and reports with dynamic covalent Michael acceptor dimers first CAXs that rather inhibit than enable thiol-mediated uptake. The superior performance compared monomeric acceptors as inhibitors might suggest top move along thiol/ate arrays without losing contact, while cell penetrators exchange disulfide arrays. decouplin...

Enantioselective direct Michael additions of ketones using (S)-1-(2-pyrrolidinylmethyl)-pyrrolidine as a catalyst are described. Michael adducts with up to 91% e.e. were obtained by the reaction of alkylidene malonates with simple unactivated ketones under mild reaction conditions. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. An increasing demand for optically active compounds has stimulat...

protonation of the highly reactive 1:1 intermediates, produced in the reaction between triphenylphosphine and acetylenic esters, by nh-acids such as azathioprine, imidazole or theophylline leads to the formation of vinyltriphenylphosphonium salts, which undergo a michael addition reaction with a conjugate base to produce phosphorus ylides. silica nanoparticles (silica nps were prepared by therm...

Protonation of the highly reactive 1:1 intermediates, produced in the reaction between triphenylphosphine and acetylenic esters, by NH-acids such as azathioprine, imidazole or theophylline leads to the formation of vinyltriphenylphosphonium salts, which undergo a Michael addition reaction with a conjugate base to produce phosphorus ylides. Silica nanoparticles (silica NPs were prepared by therm...

RE derivatives, which are cell-permeable and non-electrophilic dual-specificity protein phosphatase inhibitors developed in our laboratory, inhibit CDC25A/B non-competitively, as determined by means of kinetic experiments. To identify the binding site of RE derivatives, we designed and synthesized the new probe molecule RE142, having a Michael acceptor functionality for covalent bond formation ...