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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Res Toxicol. 2009 Oct;22(10):1680–1688. doi: 10.1021/tx900090m

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Aged adducts fragment via two mechanisms. In one mechanism the aged phosphonate group is released from serine while leaving the serine structure intact. The competing pathway releases the organophosphonate and a molecule of water to yield dehydroalanine in place of serine.