Lactoperoxidase catalyzes the oxidation of thiocyanate by hydrogen peroxide into hypothiocyanite, a reaction which can protect bacterial and mammalian cells from killing by hydrogen peroxide. The present study demonstrates, however, that lactoperoxidase in the presence of thiocyanate can actually potentiate the bactericidal and cytotoxic effects of hydrogen peroxide under specific conditions, s...

It is shown that an electrodeposited Zn-Ni-Cd alloy coating produced from sulfate electrolyte inhibits the discharge of hydrogen on carbon steel. The newly developed ternary alloys have approximately ten times higher corrosion resistance when compared to a Zn-Ni alloy. Hydrogen permeation characteristics of Zn-Ni-Cd alloy coatings were studied and compared with those of a bare and a Zn-Ni alloy...

Anaerobic bacteria involved in the degradation of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA), in the presence of sulfate as electron acceptor, were studied by combined cultivation-dependent and molecular techniques. The bacterial diversity in four mesophilic sulfate-reducing enrichment cultures, growing on oleate (C(18:1), unsaturated LCFA) or palmitate (C(16:0), saturated LCFA), was studied by denaturing g...

Alkyl sulfate monoesters are involved in cell signaling and structure. Alkyl sulfates are also present in many commercial detergents. Here, we show that monomethyl sulfate acts as an efficient alkylating agent in water, reacting spontaneously with oxygen nucleophiles >100-fold more rapidly than do alkylsulfonium ions, the usual methyl donors in living organisms. These reactions of methyl sulfat...

In the crystal structure of the title salt, 2C(5)H(6)NO(+)·SO(4) (2-)·H(2)O, one planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.01 Å) cation is stacked approximately over the other [dihedral angle between planes = 8.6 (1)°]. The pyridinium and hydr-oxy H atoms are hydrogen-bond donor atoms to the O atoms of the sulfate anion; the cations, anions and water mol-ecules are consolidated into a three-dimensional netw...

3-methyl-1-(4-sulfobuthyl)-1-h-imidazol-3ium hydrogen sulfate, as a dual acidic ionic liquid (dail), was found to be an efficient catalyst for the simple, rapid and green synthesis of substituted trisphenols from the condensation of different substituted phenols and 2,6-bis (methylol) phenols (bmp). dail catalyst efficiently promoted the reaction between phenols and bmps with a variety of funct...

In the title compound, 2C(6)H(9)BNO(2) (+)·SO(4) (2-), the dihydroxy-boryl group of one of the two independent boronic acid mol-ecules participates in (B)O-H⋯O(B) and N-H⋯O(B) hydrogen bonds, while the second is involved mainly in the formation of the charge-assisted heterodimeric synthon -B(OH)(2)⋯(-)O(2)SO(2) (-). These aggregates are further connected through N-H⋯O(sulfate) inter-actions, fo...

A mesophilic, anaerobic, gram-negative bacterium, strain SB164P1, was enriched and isolated from oxidized marine surface sediment with elemental sulfur as the sole energy substrate in the presence of ferrihydrite. Elemental sulfur was disproportionated to hydrogen sulfide and sulfate. Growth was observed exclusively in the presence of a hydrogen sulfide scavenger, e.g., ferrihydrite. In the abs...

Hyaluronic acid (HA) has a number of potential biomedical applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering. For these applications, a prerequisite is to understand the characteristic of HA films directly immobilized to solid substrates. Here, we demonstrate that high molecular weight HA can be directly immobilized onto hydrophilic substrates without any chemical manipulation, allowing for t...

There are two tetra-ethyl-ammonium cations and two toluene-4-sulfate anions in the asymmetric unit of the title salt, C8H20N(+)·C7H7O3S(-). One of the anions is disordered over two positions, with refined occupancies of 0.447 (3) and 0.553 (3). In the crystal, the cations and anions are linked by C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming ribbons along [10-1]. The ribbons are linked via C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds...