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Homocysteine thiolactone

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Homocysteine thiolactone is an intramolecular thioester of homocysteine synthesized by methionyl-tRNA synthetase in an error-editing reaction that prevents translational incorporation of homocysteine into proteins. It can damage proteins through homocysteinylation of protein lysine residues. [1]