Ferritin has a high capacity as an iron store, incorporating some 4500 iron atoms as a microcrystalline ferric oxide hydrate. Starting from apoferritin, or ferritin of low iron content, Fe2+ and an oxidizing agent, the uptake of iron can be recorded spectrophotometrically. Progress curves were obtained and the reconstituted ferritin was shown by several physical methods to be similar to natural...

Some sulfate-reducing and microaerophilic bacteria rely on the enzyme superoxide reductase (SOR) to eliminate the toxic superoxide anion radical (O2*-). SOR catalyses the one-electron reduction of O2*- to hydrogen peroxide at a nonheme ferrous iron center. The structures of Desulfoarculus baarsii SOR (mutant E47A) alone and in complex with ferrocyanide were solved to 1.15 and 1.7 A resolution, ...

Copper canisters are a central component in the safety of Finnish spent fuel repository concept (KBS-3), where main corrodent potentially affecting canister integrity is sulfide. In this study, 3D numerical model developed to assess evolution sulfide fluxes and spatially resolved corrosion depths for nuclear concept. The backfilled tunnel disposal hole implemented using geometries, with being p...

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background and objective: microbial protein production can resolve one of the major world challenges, i.e. lack of protein sources. candida tropicalis growth was investigated to specify a medium to reach the highest cell proliferation and protein production. material and methods: fractional factorial design and the index of signal to noise ratio were applied for optimization of microbial protei...

h-point standard addition method (hpsam) was applied for the simultaneous determination of v(v) and fe(iii). the method is based on the complex formation of v(v) and fe(iii) with chromazurol s (cas) in acidic media and in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (ctab) as a micellizing agent. acidic media and the presence of a micellar system improve selectivity and sensitivity. fe (iii) ...

Microencapsulated ferrous sulfate (SFE-171) and ferric orthophosphate in Petit-Suisse cheese were examined for iron bioavailability by the prophylactic method. The iron sources were industrially added to different samples of Petit-Suisse cheese, which were mixed with other food components in our laboratory before use. A reference standard diet inclusive of nonmicroencapsulated ferrous sulfate a...

2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is one of the most studied bio-based monomers, being considered best substitute for fossil-derived terephthalic in plastic production. FDCA employed preparation polyethylene furanoate (PEF), demonstrating superior mechanical and thermal proprieties compared to widely used terephthalate (PET). Nevertheless, synthesis mostly relies on oxidation platform chemical ...

Hydrate-bearing sediment cores were retrieved from the Joetsu Basin (off Joetsu city, Niigata Prefecture) at the eastern margin of the Japan Sea during the MD179 gas hydrates cruise onboard R/V Marion Dufresne in June 2010. We measured molecular and stable isotope compositions of volatiles bound in the gas hydrates and headspace gases obtained from sediments to clarify how the minor components ...

Atmospheric iron (Fe) can be a significant source of nutrition for phytoplankton inhabiting remote oceans, which in turn has a large influence on the Earth’s climate. The bioavailability of Fe in aerosols depends mainly on the fraction of soluble Fe (= [FeSol]/[FeTotal], where [FeSol] and [FeTotal] are the atmospheric concentrations of soluble and total Fe, respectively). However, the numerous ...