| Description | Dimethyl trisulfide, also known as DMTS or sulfa-hitech, belongs to the class of organic compounds known as organic trisulfides. These are organosulfur compounds with the general formula RSSSR' (R,R'=alkyl, aryl). Dimethyl trisulfide is possibly neutral. Dimethyl trisulfide exists in all eukaryotes, ranging from yeast to humans. Dimethyl trisulfide is a cabbage, cooked, and fish tasting compound. Outside of the human body, Dimethyl trisulfide is found, on average, in the highest concentration within a few different foods, such as kohlrabis, soft-necked garlics, and milk (cow). Dimethyl trisulfide has also been detected, but not quantified in, several different foods, such as fruits, cereals and cereal products, allium (onion), garlics, and brassicas. This could make dimethyl trisulfide a potential biomarker for the consumption of these foods. Found in essential oil of hop (Humulus lupulus), garlic (Allium sativum), shallot (Allium cepa) and ramsons (Allium ursinum)and is also found in pineapple, raw cabbage, kohrabi, roasted filberts, roasted peanuts, edible mushrooms, brussel sprouts, fermented radish, Chinese cabbage, parsnips, scallop and squid. Dimethyl trisulfide is found in Allium ursinum , Homo sapiens (Skin), Humulus lupulus , Phallus impudicus , Pilosocereus tweedyanus and Sauromatum guttatum. Dimethyl trisulfide was first documented in 1993 (PMID: 8481097). Dimethyl trisulfide, with regard to humans, has been found to be associated with several diseases such as perillyl alcohol administration for cancer treatment, autism, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; dimethyl trisulfide has also been linked to the inborn metabolic disorder celiac disease (PMID: 16840607) (PMID: 14691119) (PMID: 11236158). |
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| DMTS | Kegg | | Dimethyl trisulphide | Generator | | (Methyltrisulphanyl)methane | HMDB | | (Methyldisulfanyl)methane | HMDB | | (Methyldithio)methane | HMDB | | 1,3-Dimethyltrisulfane (acd/name 4.0) | HMDB | | 2,3,4-Trithiapentane | HMDB | | 2,3-Dithiabutane | HMDB | | CH3SSSCH3 | HMDB | | Dimethyl disulfide | HMDB | | Dimethyl disulphide | HMDB | | Dimethyl trisufide | HMDB | | Dimethyldisulfide | HMDB | | Disulfide dimethyl | HMDB | | DMDS | HMDB | | Methyl disulfide | HMDB | | Methyl trisulfide | HMDB | | Methyldisulfanylmethane | HMDB | | Methyldisulfide | HMDB | | Methyldithiomethane | HMDB | | Sulfa-hitech | HMDB | | Sulfa-hitech 0382 | HMDB | | Trisulfide, dimethyl | HMDB | | Dimethyltrisulphide | Generator |
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