Well-aligned ultrathin corrugated nanowire TiO 2 (UCW-TiO ) on FTO was used as a versatile photoanode platform for PEC benzyl alcohol and water oxidation with significant performance improvement compared to the nanoparticulate counterparts.

The electrooxidation of benzylic alcohol derivative in acidic aqueous solution shows an oxidation pre-peak in the cyclic voltammogram, which means that the reaction is proceeding via an ECE mechanism where the second electron transfer occurs at a less positive potential. From the result of the rotating ring-disk electrode voltammetry, the initial oxidation response of the electrode reaction can...

A new flavooxidase is described from a Bjerkandera arthroconidial anamorph. Its physicochemical characteristics, a monomeric enzyme containing non-covalently bound flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and several catalytic properties, such as oxidation of aromatic and polyunsaturated aliphatic primary alcohols, are similar to those of Pleurotus eryngii aryl-alcohol oxidase (AAO). However, it also...

Proteins aggregate in response to various stresses including changes in solvent conditions. Addition of alcohols has been recently shown to induce aggregation of disease-related as well as nondisease-related proteins. Here we probed the biophysical mechanisms underlying alcohol-induced protein aggregation, in particular the role of partial protein unfolding in aggregation. We have studied aggre...

Pseudomonas sp. strain TW3 is able to oxidatively metabolize 4-nitrotoluene and toluene via a route analogous to the upper pathway of the TOL plasmids. We report the sequence and organization of five genes, ntnWCMAB*, which are very similar to and in the same order as the xyl operon of TOL plasmid pWW0 and present evidence that they encode enzymes which are expressed during growth on both 4-nit...

Phenol has various medical applications but can cause convulsions and cardiac arrhythmia suggestive of K+ channel block. We examined phenol inhibition of the delayed-rectifier RCK1 (Kv1.1) K+ channel cloned from rat brain and expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Phenol (2.5 mM) caused a 43 +/- 5 mV depolarizing shift in the RCK1 half-activation voltage (Vg) but only a 10 +/- 3% decrease in the ...