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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biochim Biophys Acta. 2013 Apr 6;1840(2):10.1016/j.bbagen.2013.03.031. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2013.03.031

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Reaction mechanism for the reduction of disulfide bonds by phosphines. Here, the reaction of tris-(2-hydroxyethyl) phosphine (THP) is shown. Several other water soluble phosphines are commercially available, or have been described in the literature.