A two-stage passive treatment approach was assessed at a bench-scale level using two Colorado Mining Influenced Waters (MIWs). The first-stage was a limestone drain with the purpose of removing iron and aluminum and mitigating the potential effects of mineral acidity. The second stage was a sulfate reducing bioreactor composed solely of 50% corn stover and 50% walnut shells by volume. The prima...

Microbial degradation of synthetic chelating agents, such as EDTA and nitrilotriacetate (NTA), may help immobilizing radionuclides and heavy metals in the environment. The EDTA- and NTA-degrading bacterium BNC1 uses EDTA monooxygenase to oxidize NTA to iminodiacetate (IDA) and EDTA to ethylenediaminediacetate (EDDA). IDA- and EDDA-degrading enzymes have not been purified and characterized to da...

Iron can potentiate the toxicity of ethanol. Ethanol increases the content of cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1), which generates reactive oxygen species, and transition metals such as iron are powerful catalysts of hydroxyl radical formation and lipid peroxidation. Experiments were carried out to attempt to link CYP2E1, iron, and oxidative stress as a potential mechanism by which iron increases etha...

The genetic modification of cells to develop cell-based vaccines and to modulate immune responses in vivo can be risky and inconvenient to perform in clinical situations. A novel chelator lipid, nitrilotriacetic acid di-tetradecylamine (NTA-DTDA) that, via the NTA group has high affinity for 6His peptide, was used to directly anchor recombinant forms of T cell costimulatory molecules containing...

A thermophilic bacterium that can use O2, NO3-, Fe(III), and S0 as terminal electron acceptors for growth was isolated from groundwater sampled at a 3.2-km depth in a South African gold mine. This organism, designated SA-01, clustered most closely with members of the genus Thermus, as determined by 16S rRNA gene (rDNA) sequence analysis. The 16S rDNA sequence of SA-01 was >98% similar to that o...

Crystal structure determinations on the uranyl ion complexes [H2N(CH3)2]2[UO2(bpdc)2], (1), (bpdc = 2,2′-bipyridine-3,3′-dicarboxylate), [pyH]2[UO2(btfac)(NO3)2](NO3), (2), (btfac 1-phenyl-4,4,4-trifluorobutane-1,3-dionate), [H2dabco][UO2(nta)]2·3H2O, (3), (dabco 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane; nta nitrilotriacetate) and [Ni(cyclam)UO2(edta)].2H2O, (4), (cyclam 1,4,8,11-tetrazacyclotetradecane; ...