Anaerobic methanogenesis plays an important role in the sustainable management of high concentration organic wastewater and bioenergy recovery. Interspecies electron transfer (IET) is a new type mutualistic symbiosis that can accelerate microbial metabolism overcome thermodynamic barriers metabolic process, thus facilitating anaerobic methanogenesis. IET classified into Direct Electron Transfer...

The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) have been regarded as one of the most promising new generation solar cells. Tremendous research efforts have been invested to improve the efficiency of solar energy conversion which is generally determined by the light harvesting efficiency, electron injection efficiency and undesirable electron lifetime. In this review, various characteristics of dye-...

We report the inhibition of the Aquifex aeolicus IspH enzyme (LytB, (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl diphosphate reductase, EC 1.17.1.2) by a series of diphosphates and bisphosphonates. The most active species was an alkynyl diphosphate having IC(50) = 0.45 microM (K(i) approximately 60 nM), which generated a very large change in the 9 GHz EPR spectrum of the reduced protein. On the basis of p...

In the present study, application of porous acidic catalyst functionalized with an imidazoleionic liquid ([SBA-Im]HSO4) as a phase transfer catalyst for the facile preparation of benzylthiocyanates and azides in water has been described. The catalyst has been characterized byFourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmissionelectron microscopy (TEM...

It is shown that dinoseb, added to subchloroplast photosystem-II (PS-II) preparations from pea at a concentration higher than 5 microM, along with blocking the electron transfer on the acceptor side of PS-II, induces the following effects revealing its capability to have redox interaction with the components of PS-II reaction center (RC)-pheophytin (Pheo) and chlorophyll P680: (1) acceleration ...

The corrosion inhibition efficiency of benzimidazole, 2-methylbenzimidazole and 2- aminobenzimidazole for mild steel immersed in 3.5 NaCl solution was investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy EIS at concentration range from 10-5 to 10-2 M of imidazoles and temperature range from 30 to 50°C. In addition, DC polarization was examined to determine inhibition mechanism at concentratio...

background: protozoa related to trypanosome family including leishmania , synthesize enzymes to escape from drug therapy. one of them is ptr1 that its enzymatic activity is similar to dihydrofolate reductase (dhfr). dihydrofolate reductase - thymidylate synthase has a major role in dna synthesis, if it is inhibited, the result would be the death of parasite. since ptr1 activity is similar to dh...

Ab initio electronic structure calculations on model cations containing a disulfide linkage and a protonated amine site are carried out to examine ow the rate of electron transfer from a Rydberg orbital on the amine site to the S S * orbital depends upon the distance between these two rbitals. These simulations are relevant to both electron-capture and electron-transfer dissociation mass spectr...

Choline oxidase (ChOx) was chosen as a model enzyme for evaluating the performance of CNTs’ functional groups for development of enzyme electrodes. CNTs were functionalized with carboxylic acid, amine or amide groups. Carboxylic acid, amine and amide functionalized CNTs were obtained by acid treatment, ethylenediamine or tetraethylenepentamine chemically modification and ammonia plasma treatmen...

Antimycin, a specific and highly potent inhibitor of electron transfer in the cytochrome b-c1 segment of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, does not inhibit reduction of cytochrome c1 by succinate in isolated succinate-cytochrome c reductase complex under conditions where the respiratory chain complex undergoes one oxidation-reduction turnover. If a slight molar excess of cytochrome c is adde...