Stable isotope probing (SIP) was used to identify the aerobic toluene-degrading microorganism in soil microcosms. Several approaches (terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and quantitative PCR) provided evidence that the microorganism responsible was a member of the genus Polaromonas and could grow on toluene. This microorganism also transformed benzene, b...

Pseudoxanthomonas spadix BD-a59, able to metabolize all six BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and o-, m-, and p-xylene) compounds, was isolated from gasoline-contaminated sediment. Here, we report the complete 3.45-Mb genome sequence and annotation of strain BD-a59. These advance the understanding of strain BD-a59's genomic properties and pollutant metabolic versatility.

The charge transfer (CT) complex formation of benzonitrile as acceptor with the aromatic donors o-, m-, p-xylene and ethylbenzene in CCl4 solutions is investigated by chemical shift measurements relative to an external reference. The equilibrium parameters, Q and DAD of their weak molecular complexes, as found numerically mo...

Anaerobic toluene degradation is initiated by adding to fumarate via the glycyl radical enzyme benzylsuccinate synthase (BSS). We developed a recombinant production system producing active BSS and present data on effects of some active-site mutants. A single substitution Ile617 Val inside hydrophobic pocket site leads an extended substrate range variant, which includes conversion m-xylene, but ...

A three dimensional (3D) hierarchical silver supported tungsten oxide flower-like microsphere catalyst has been fabricated using a cationic surfactant CTAB. It was found that the crystal-splitting mechanism plays a key role in the formation of this flower-like structure. This catalyst was proved to be highly effective in the liquid phase selective oxidation of m-xylene to isophthalic acid.

The self-assembly of higher order structures in water is realised by using the association of 1,3-biscarboxylates to binuclear meta-xylyl bridged DO3A complexes. Two dinicotinate binding sites are placed at a right-angle in a rhenium complex, which is shown to form a 1 : 2 complex with α,α'-bis(Eu·DO3A)-5-amino-m-xylene.

Xylene isomers are crucial chemical intermediates in great demand worldwide; the almost identical physicochemical properties render their current separation approach energy consuming. In this study, we utilized soft porous coordination polymer (PCP)’s isomer-specific structural transformation, realizing o-xylene (oX) recognition/separation from binary and ternary isomer mixtures. This PCP has a...

background: benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene compounds (btex) are very dangerous in terms of health and environmental and have high toxicity in aquatic environment. the purpose of this study was to investigate the performance analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons xylene using solar radiation uv/tio2 method in industrial synthetic waste . methods: an experimental-interventional study was ...

Prokaryotic transcription factors (TFs) that bind small xenobiotic molecules (e.g., TFs that drive genes that respond to environmental pollutants) often display a promiscuous effector profile for analogs of the bona fide chemical signals. XylR, the master TF for expression of the m-xylene biodegradation operons encoded in the TOL plasmid pWW0 of Pseudomonas putida, responds not only to the arom...