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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Sci. 2015 Oct 7;7(1):400–415. doi: 10.1039/c5sc02569a

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A) Biological cysteine oxoforms. (B) Sulfenic acid acts as a nucleophile and an electrophile. (C) Nucleophilic probes (Nu) result in the formation of a thioether-type linkage and electrophilic probes (E+) result in the formation of a sulfoxide. (D) General structures of nucleophilic and electrophilic sulfenic acid probes. (E) Examples of currently known stable and transient small-molecule sulfenic acids.