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SUBMITTER: Waliczek M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6735248 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Waliczek Mateusz M Pehlivan Özge Ö Stefanowicz Piotr P
ChemistryOpen 20190910 9
Peptides containing selenocysteine moieties are susceptible to non-catalytic reactions of diselenide bonds metathesis induced by visible light. In contrast to previously reported radical metathesis of disulfide bridges in cysteine derivatives, this newly developed reaction is fast and clean, and proceeds without decomposition of peptides and without formation of side products. The diselenide bond in peptides was reported in literature to be more stable than the disulfide one and also less suscep ...[more]