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colorless to light yellow crystalline powder

2-(Methylthio)Benzothiazole could be useful for removing pollutants in drinking water.

ChEBI: An organic sulfide that is the methyl thioether of 1,3-benzothiazole-2-thiol.

When 2-methylthiobenzothiazole and 35S-labeled glutathione (GSH) are incubated with rat liver microsomes, both 35S-labeled S-(2- benzothiazolyl)glutathione and 2- mercaptobenzothiazole are isolated from the reaction mixtures. Glutathione-S-transferase appears to be involved in the S-(2- benzothiazolyl)glutathione formation. Although sulfur is exchanged in this pathway, the net result of this pathway which involves oxidation of the methylthio group and GSH conjugation is an apparent S-demethylation of the methylthio group. Another S-demethylation pathway that does not involve GSH conjugation also functions in vitro.