A peroxidase (DyP) involved in the decolorization of dyes and produced by the fungus strain Geotrichum candidum Dec 1 was purified. DyP, a glycoprotein, is glycosylated with N-acetylglucosamine and mannose (17%) and has a molecular mass of 60 kDa and an isoelectric point (pI) of 3.8. The absorption spectrum of DyP exhibited a Soret band at 406 nm corresponding to a hemoprotein, and its Na2S2O4-...

We studied the thermal diffusion behavior of hexaethylene glycol monododecyl ether (C12E6) in water by means of thermal diffusion forced Rayleigh scattering (TDFRS) and determined Soret coefficients, thermal diffusion coefficients, and diffusion constants at different temperatures and concentrations. At low surfactant concentrations, the measured Soret coefficient is positive, which implies tha...

The heat and mass transfer characteristics of natural convection about a horizontal surface embedded in a saturated porous medium subject to variable viscosity are numerically analyzed, by taking into account the diffusion-thermo (Dufour) and thermal-diffusion (Soret) effects. The governing equations of continuity, momentum, energy and concentration are transformed into nonlinear ordinary diffe...

The enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP) shows a decreasing activity when the enzyme's substrate hydrogen peroxide is present with the degree of inactivation being dependent on the incubation time and the hydrogen peroxide concentration. Incubation times of some minutes do not inactivate the enzyme independent of the H2O2 concentration. After several hours, only 50% of the activity is found for ...

In the course of a study of the pigment composition of some marine algae (6) certain organisms were found to possess highly active systems capable of converting chlorophyll a to chlorophyllide derivatives. Two chlorophyllides could be obtained from the diatom Phaeodactylnin tricornutunt (Bohlin) depending on the conditions of incubation. One possessed a spectrum identical with chlorophyll a, an...

Phytochromes constitute one of the six well-characterized families of photosensory proteins in Nature. From the viewpoint of computational modeling, however, phytochromes have been the subject of much fewer studies than most other families of photosensory proteins, which is likely a consequence of relevant high-resolution structural data becoming available only in recent years. In this work, hy...

1. The absorption spectra of deutero- and proto-ferrihaem in aqueous solution at 25 degrees C show marked changes with concentration and pH in the Soret band region. Quantitative studies of these phenomena imply that they are associated with ferrihaem dimerization and with protolytic equilibria involving monomeric (M) and dimeric (D) ferrihaem species according to the scheme: [Formula: see text...

Martin Gouterman first proposed the four-orbital model in the 1960s to explain the absorption spectra of porphyrins [17, . According to this theory, the absorption bands in porphyrin systems arise from transitions between two HOMOs and two LUMOs, and it is the identities of the metal center and the substituents on the ring that affect the relative energies of these transitions. The HOMOs were c...

The interaction between two unsupported Ag(III)porphyrins, which exist as a metalloporphyrin dimer has been studied. UV-visible spectrum shows only slight change in Soret band position indicative of Ag(III) formation. Optimized structure the complexes clearly revealed that metal-centered oxidation results short Ag-N (porphyrin) distance with large distortion porphyrin macrocycle. dispersion eff...

Non-linear reaction-diffusion processes with cross-diffusion in two-dimensional, anisotropic media are analyzed by means of an implicit, iterative, time-linearized approximate factorization technique as functions of the anisotropy of the heat and species diffusivity tensors, the Soret and Dufour cross-diffusion effects, and five types of boundary conditions. It is shown that anisotropy and cros...