Ethionine
"Ethionine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
2-Amino-4-(ethylthio)butyric acid. An antimetabolite and methionine antagonist that interferes with amino acid incorporation into proteins and with cellular ATP utilization. It also produces liver neoplasms.
| Descriptor ID |
D005001
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.886.030.388 D12.125.166.388
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Pey AL, Majtan T, Kraus JP. The role of surface electrostatics on the stability, function and regulation of human cystathionine ?-synthase, a complex multidomain and oligomeric protein. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014 Sep; 1844(9):1453-62.