Seleninate in place of phosphate: irreversible inhibition of protein tyrosine phosphatases.
Abdo, M., Liu, S., Zhou, B., Walls, C.D., Wu, L., Knapp, S., Zhang, Z.Y.(2008) J.Am.Chem.Soc. 130: 13196-13197
- PubMed: 18781746 
- DOI: 10.1021/ja804489m
- PubMed Abstract: 
A homotyrosine based seleninic acid irreversibly inhibits protein tyrosine phosphatases by forming a covalent selenosulfide linkage with the active site cysteine sulfhydryl specifically. The details of the event are revealed by model synthetic studie ...