L-Methionine Sulfone is an impurity of L-Methionine (M260440) which is an essential aminoacid for human development. L-Methionine is a hepatoprotectant, an antidote (acetominophen poisoning) and a urinary acidifier.
ChEBI: A methionine derivative where the sulphur is oxidised to a sulphone.
L-Methionine sulfone may be used to study pupae development of the silkworm Bombyx mori L. L-Methionine sulfone may be used as a complexing agent to study conformational structures and stereospecificity of enzymes such as glutamate synthase and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase.
