Selenium‐containing amino acids as direct and indirect antioxidants

AS Rahmanto, MJ Davies - IUBMB life, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Selenium is a trace element essential for normal physiological processes. Organic selenium‐
containing amino acids, such as selenocysteine (Sec)/selenocystine and selenomethionine …

[HTML][HTML] Catalytic application of selenium and tellurium compounds as glutathione peroxidase enzyme mimetics

EE Alberto, V Nascimento, AL Braga - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2010 - SciELO Brasil
This review covers the past decade of intensive research on the design, synthesis and
screening of organoselenides and tellurides as catalyst able to mimic the activity of the …

Flavonoids in atherosclerosis: an overview of their mechanisms of action

G Siasos, D Tousoulis, V Tsigkou… - Current Medicinal …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Polyphenols are composed of a wide variety of molecules that are classified into several
categories, according to their chemical type such as phenolic acids, flavonoids, stilbenes …

Insights into the mechanisms of arsenic-selenium interactions and the associated toxicity in plants, animals, and humans: A critical review

W Ali, H Zhang, M Junaid, K Mao, N Xu… - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This review highlights arsenic (As) and selenium (Se) sources in the environment, their
uptake in the soil-plant system, interactions between these metals and the associated …

[HTML][HTML] The glutathione system and the related thiol network in Caenorhabditis elegans

GD Ferguson, WJ Bridge - Redox biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in the field of redox biology have contributed to the understanding of the
complexity of the thiol-based system in mediating signal transduction. The redox …

Methionine sulfoxide reductases: selenoprotein forms and roles in antioxidant protein repair in mammals

HY Kim, VN Gladyshev - Biochemical Journal, 2007 - portlandpress.com
Msrs (methionine sulfoxide reductases), MsrA and MsrB, are repair enzymes that reduce
methionine sulfoxide residues in oxidatively damaged proteins to methionine residues in a …

Stereoselective and divergent construction of β-thiolated/selenolated amino acids via photoredox-catalyzed asymmetric Giese reaction

H Yin, M Zheng, H Chen, S Wang, Q Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sulfur and selenium occupy a distinguished position in biology owing to their redox
activities, high nucleophilicity, and acyl transfer capabilities. Thiolated/selenolated amino …

Electrochemical parameters and techniques in drug development, with an emphasis on quinones and related compounds

EA Hillard, FC de Abreu, DCM Ferreira… - Chemical …, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
This review article summarizes recent applications of electrochemical techniques to redox-
active drug development and mechanistic studies. It includes a general introduction to the …

Isosteric replacement of sulfur with other chalcogens in peptides and proteins

L Moroder - Journal of peptide science: an official publication of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The review addresses the functional and structural properties of the two series of chalcogen
analogues of amino acids in peptides and proteins, the methionine and the serine/cysteine …

Synthesis, structure, spirocyclization mechanism, and glutathione peroxidase-like antioxidant activity of stable spirodiazaselenurane and spirodiazatellurane

BK Sarma, D Manna, M Minoura… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The first examples of stable spirodiazaselenurane and spirodiazatellurane were synthesized
by oxidative spirocyclization of the corresponding diaryl selenide and telluride and were …