Styrene has been found to be toxic to the respiratory system, and the toxicity of styrene is metabolism-dependent. CYP2E1 is suggested to be one of the cytochrome P450 enzymes responsible for the bioactivation of styrene. Our work focused on the roles of CYP2E1 and epoxide, a metabolite of styrene epoxidation, in the cytotoxicity of styrene. Styrene was found to be more toxic to h2E1 cells than...

This article examined the biological removal of high concentrated sulfamethazine (SMZ) antibiotics by the acclimatized activated sludge in lab-scale SBRs system. The removal of SMZ was characterized by a quick adsorption and a slow process of biodegradation. The adsorption capacity of activated sludge for SMZ was 44 and 47 µg SMZ/g SS, respectively, with the initial SMZ concentrations of 1 and ...

1. In vitro experiments were performed with E. coli, using a method designed for the quantitative study of various aspects of sulfonamide resistance. 2. Resistance was found to be a gradually developing process, and was demonstrated for all four drugs tested, sulfanilamide, sulfapyridine, sulfathiazole, and sulfadiazine. 3. It was shown that the degree of resistance developed was correlated wit...

Considerable interest has been aroused recently in the investigation of substances which inhibit the action of the sulfonamide drugs. Lockwood (1) showed that peptones inhibit the action of sulfanilamide on streptococci. Stamp (2) isolated certain fractions of streptococci, and Green (3) isolated fractions of brucella, which have similar activity with respect to the corresponding organisms. Wes...

UNLABELLED The stress-responsive alternative sigma factor σ(B) is conserved across diverse Gram-positive bacterial genera. In Listeria monocytogenes, σ(B) regulates transcription of >150 genes, including genes contributing to virulence and to bacterial survival under host-associated stress conditions, such as those encountered in the human gastrointestinal lumen. An inhibitor of L. monocytogene...

Differences in properties of pure metaand pure para-divinylbenzene crosslinked polystyrene and their sulphonated products have been correlated with probable network structural differences. The para-divinylbenzene copolymerizes more slowly than does the meta isomer to give a crosslinked copolymer which swells less, sulphonates less rapidly, and, when sulphonated, gives an ion exchanger which has...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa ParA belongs to a large subfamily of Walker-type ATPases acting as partitioning proteins in bacteria. ParA has the ability to both self-associate and interact with its partner ParB. Analysis of the deletion mutants defined the part of the protein involved in dimerization and interactions with ParB. Here, a set of ParA alanine substitution mutants in the region between E67...

In the title solvate, C(11)H(11)N(3)O(2)S·CH(3)NO(2), the dihedral angle between the benzene ring and the N-containing ring is 85.94 (11)°, and an approximate V shape arises for the sulfonamide mol-ecule. In the crystal, N-H⋯O and N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds and weak C-H⋯O inter-actions link the sulfonamide mol-ecules into a three-dimensional network. The nitro-methane solvent mol-ecules are located i...