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Action of trimethyl phosphate on amino acids. Selective methylation of L-cysteine and related compounds
✍ Scribed by Kiyoshi Yamauchi; Toshio Sugimae; Masayoshi Kinoshita
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
Quite recently, trimethyl phosphate (TMP) was shown to function as an alkylating agent in vivo, and when fed to mice, rats etc., this compound was rapidly metabolized to dimethyl hydrogen phosphate and S-methylcysteine was identified as an urinary metabolite. 1 Similar results were found in other