Copyright © 1996, 1997, 2001 by
Galen Daryl Knight and VitaleTherapeutics, Inc.
Sulfenates From Benzyl Derivatives
Calcium pumps in each cell may have the capacity to remove this ion from
the stabilized, sulfenate-linked benzyl derivative of vitalethine, causing
this complex to rearrange and generate sulfenic acids without first being
reduced to vitaletheine and then being oxidized
to a sulfenate in monooxygenase-catalyzed reactions. Consequently,
derivatives of this sort have theoretical advantages over the disulfide,
vitalethine, when the monooxygenase system is deficient, inhibited, or
otherwise compromised.
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