Product Description: Cystamine is the disulfide form of the free thiol, cysteamine. Cystamine is an orally active transglutaminase (Tgase) inhibitor. Cystamine also has inhibition activity for caspase-3 with an IC50 value of 23.6 μM. Cystamine can be used for the research of severals diseases including Huntington's disease (HD) [1][2][3].
Applications: Cancer-programmed cell death
Formula: C4H12N2S2
References: [1]Mathieu Lesort, et al. Cystamine inhibits caspase activity. Implications for the treatment of polyglutamine disorders. J Biol Chem. 2003 Feb 7;278(6):3825-30. /[2]Alpaslan Dedeoglu, et al. Therapeutic effects of cystamine in a murine model of Huntington's disease. J Neurosci. 2002 Oct 15;22(20):8942-50. /[3]Thomas M Jeitner, et al. Cystamine and cysteamine as inhibitors of transglutaminase activity in vivo. Biosci Rep. 2018 Sep 5;38(5):BSR20180691.
CAS Number: 51-85-4
Molecular Weight: 152.28
Compound Purity: 99.79
Research Area: Cancer
Solubility: DMSO : 100 mg/mL (ultrasonic)/H2O : 100 mg/mL (ultrasonic)
Target: Apoptosis;Caspase;Glutaminase