Cyanuric Acid Biodegradation via Biuret: Physiology, Taxonomy, and Geospatial Distribution

Ancient Evolution and Recent Evolution Converge for the Biodegradation of Cyanuric Acid and Related Triazines.

Cyanuric acid was likely present on prebiotic Earth, may have been a component of early genetic materials, and is synthesized industrially today on a scale of more than one hundred million pounds per year in the United States. In light of this, it is not surprising that some bacteria and fungi have a metabolic pathway that sequentially hydrolyzes cyanuric acid and its metabolites to release the...

Melamine and Cyanuric acid

Introduction......................................................................................................................... 1 Uses and possible human exposure ................................................................................... 2 Toxicity of Melamine .......................................................................................................... 2 Toxicity of ...

Aromaticity in cyanuric acid

This study analyzes the aromatic nature of cyanuric acid (hexahydrotriazine) and some of its derivatives, in terms of aromatic stabilization energy (ASE) and electronic behavior. The simplest molecule (C(3)N(3)O(3)H(3)) is the most aromatic item out of the entire set, but some of the others also display aromatic character. The structure of all the rings is analyzed considering their molecular o...

Expanding the Cyanuric Acid Hydrolase Protein Family

Title: Melamine-Cyanuric Acid Detection System for Purposely Adulterated Foods

Melamine (2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine) has been used on numerous occasions by individuals as a food adulterant to boost the apparent nitrogen content of food. Together with cyanuric acid, melamine causes acute kidney failure. In the recent infant formula incident, 150,000 children were hospitalized and several died. The WHO recently requested the development of a rapid method to quantitativel...