During aerobic respiration, Bacillus subtilis utilizes three terminal oxidases, cytochromes aa3, caa3, and bd. Cytochrome bd is encoded by the cydABCD operon. We report here the first identification of a regulator for the cydABCD operon, YdiH. While working with DeltaresDE mutant strains, we identified colonies which contained suppressor mutations (cmp) which bypassed the requirement for ResD f...

Unlike human erythrocytes, those from avian species, such as turkeys and chicks, rapidly incorporate myo-[3H]inositol into membrane phospholipids. The mechanisms regulating [3H]Ins labelling of phosphatidylinositol have been investigated using turkey erythrocyte membranes. In the absence of added nucleotides, [3H]inositol incorporation appears to proceed via phosphatidylinositol/inositol exchan...

  Aims of the Study: The aim of this study was to determine the amount of lignin degradation and biodegradation of organic matter and change of biomass under compost and vermicomposting of sewage sludge. Materials & Methods: Sawdust was added to sewage sludge at 1:3 weight bases to Carbon to Nitrogen ratio of 25:1 for composting or vermicomposting. Lignin and volatile solids were deter...

Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) is a key process enabling shallow trench isolation (STI), which is used in current integrated circuit manufacturing processes to achieve device isolation. Excessive dishing and erosion in STI CMP processes, however, create device yield concerns. This thesis proposes characterization and modeling techniques to address a variety of concerns in STI CMP. Three ma...

' .On the way of purification of beef liver arginase, Kitagawa and author') obtained a crystalline protein and ascertained it to be identical with the crystalline catalase which had been first isolated by Sumner and Dounce2) in 1937. In order to isolate the crystalline catalase, Sumner employed fractional precipitation by dioxane. An attempt to substitute acetone for dioxane was unsuccessful in...

Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans CB1190 is the first bacterium reported to be capable of growth on the environmental contaminant 1,4-dioxane and the first member of the genus Pseudonocardia for which there is an annotated genome sequence. Preliminary analysis of the genome (chromosome and three plasmids) indicates that strain CB1190 possesses several multicomponent monooxygenases that could be invo...

In the crystal structure of the title compound, (C(5)H(6)N)(2)[UCl(4)O(2)]·C(4)H(8)O(2), the pyridinium cations occupy general positions and the anions and the solvent dioxane mol-ecule are located on centres of inversion. The dioxane mol-ecules are connected to two symmetry-related pyridinium cations via O-H⋯O hydrogen bonding. There are additional inter-molecular C-H⋯Cl contacts, which are in...

In the title compound, C(10)H(20)O(4), the dioxane ring adopts a chair conformation. The tert-butyl group occupies an equatorial position, and is staggered with respect to the O atoms of the dioxane ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are connected by O-H⋯O hydrogen-bonds into zigzag chains of R(4) (4)(8) and R(2) (2)(12) ring motifs that run parallel to the a axis.

In the chemical industry, 1,4-diethylene dioxide, commonly called dioxane, is widely used as a solvent well stabilizing agent for chlorinated solvents. Due to its high miscibility, dioxane ubiquitous water contaminant. This study investigates effectiveness of catalyst- and ultrasound (US)-assisted persulfate (PS) activation with regard degrading dioxane. As first step, composite catalyst was pr...