5-Methylindole
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5-Methylindole is an irritating
organic compound
with chemical formula
99. 5-Methylindole is used as an intermediate in the synthesis of compounds with a variety of pharmacological properties, such as staurosporine
-like bisindole inhibitors of protein kinase
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Irritation
Irritation or exacerbation, in biology and physiology, is a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage. A stimulus or agent which induces the state of irritation is an irritant...
organic compound
Organic compound
An organic compound is any member of a large class of gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon. For historical reasons discussed below, a few types of carbon-containing compounds such as carbides, carbonates, simple oxides of carbon, and cyanides, as well as the...
with chemical formula
Chemical formula
A chemical formula or molecular formula is a way of expressing information about the atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound....
99. 5-Methylindole is used as an intermediate in the synthesis of compounds with a variety of pharmacological properties, such as staurosporine
Staurosporine
Staurosporine is a natural product originally isolated in 1977 from the bacterium Streptomyces staurosporeus.It was the first of over 50 alkaloids to be isolated with this type of bis-indole chemical structure...
-like bisindole inhibitors of protein kinase
Protein kinase
A protein kinase is a kinase enzyme that modifies other proteins by chemically adding phosphate groups to them . Phosphorylation usually results in a functional change of the target protein by changing enzyme activity, cellular location, or association with other proteins...
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