1.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 50(9): 2125-8, 2011 Feb 25.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21344566
2.
Chem Biodivers
; 5(3): 359-74, 2008 Mar.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-18357559
RESUMO
Selenium-containing amino acids have attracted increasing interest from view points of the importance as active centers of several selenoenzymes, the biological synthesis, the metabolism, and the use for structure determination of proteins. In this article, our recent progresses in the transformation from sulfur-containing amino acids to selenocysteine (SeCys) and selenomethionine (SeMet) derivatives are reviewed along with the surveys of general organic methodologies for the synthesis of SeCys and SeMet derivatives in the literature. The S-->Se modification (i.e., the chemical atomic mutation) would be a useful approach to peptide synthesis involving selenoamino acid residues.