Keratin obtained from poultry feathers was extruded at 120°C using a combination of glycerol, water, and sodium sulfite as processing aids. Rheological properties were assessed as a function of water, glycerol, and sodium sulfite content as well as extruder die temperature. The lowest viscosity blends at a constant feather keratin concentration of 60 wt % were found at glycerol concentrations t...

Studies with (35)S-labeled substrates were conducted to investigate the pathway involved in the reduction of sulfite to sulfide by cell-free extracts of the sulfate-reducing organism Desulfovibrio vulgaris. The results showed that accumulation of thiosulfate occurred when crude extracts were incubated under appropriate conditions with sulfite as substrate. With labeled sulfite as substrate, thi...

Biological sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) may be effective in removing toxic lead and mercury ions (Pb(II) and Hg(II)) from wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) wastewater through anaerobic sulfite reduction. To confirm this hypothesis, a sulfite-reducing up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor was set up to treat FGD wastewater at metal loading rates of 9.2 g/m(3)-d Pb(II) and 2.6 g/m(3)-d Hg(...

As an essential enzyme in the sulfate assimilation reductive pathway, sulfite reductase (SiR) plays important roles in diverse metabolic processes such as sulfur homeostasis and cysteine metabolism. However, whether plant SiR is involved in oxidative stress response is largely unknown. Here, we show that SiR functions in methyl viologen (MV)-induced oxidative stress in Arabidopsis. The transcri...

Sulfite is widely used as a preservative in foods and beverages for its antimicrobial antioxidant activities, particularly winemaking where SO2 frequently added. Thus, sulfite resistance mechanisms have been extensively studied the fermenting yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nevertheless, recent years, negative perception has developed towards sulfites wine, because of human health environmental...

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) absorption in aqueous sulfite solutions has recently gained more attention to reduce NOx emissions. The NO2 removal efficiency is strongly influenced by the competing reactions of and oxidation. present study investigates role oxidation at neutral pH. effects concentration, thiosulfate, pH, inlet oxygen concentration on efficiency, rates were investigated under well-contr...

Resting-cell suspensions of Desulfomonile tiedjei consumed H2 with 3-chloro-, 3-bromo-, and 3-iodobenzoate as electron acceptors with rates of 0.50, 0.44, and 0.04 mumol h-1 mg-1, respectively. However, benzoate and 3-fluorobenzoate were not metabolized by this bacterium. In addition, H2 uptake was at least fourfold faster when sulfate, sulfite, or thiosulfate was available as the electron acce...

We present putative global minima for the micro-hydrated sulfite SO32-(H2O) N and chlorate ClO3-(H2O) N systems in the range 3≤N≤15 found using basin-hopping global structure optimization with an empirical potential. We present a structural analysis of the hydration of a large number of minimized structures for hydrated sulfite and chlorate clusters in the range 3≤N≤50. We show that sulfite is ...

Trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid (TNBS) may be used for quantifying dilute solutions of protein. The trinitrophenyl protein-sulfite corn plexes resulting from reaction of TNBS with protein in the presence of sulfite are highly colored and exhibit maximum spectral absorbance at 420 nm. The TNBS protein-sulfite complex is formed by a simple two.stage condensation and complexation reaction. Protein in...

Sulfite and sulfide share several similarities in terms of chemical properties, such as nucleophilic and reducing reactivities. Therefore, they may disturb the detection of each other. In order to discriminate between these two kinds of sulfur-containing species, a new probe -N3 was developed, in which para-azidobenzenyl ketone was covalently incorporated to a coumarin fluorophore linked by a C...