The cyanobacterial metabolite apratoxin A (1) demonstrates potent cytotoxicity against tumor cell lines by a hitherto unknown mechanism. We have used functional genomics to elucidate the molecular basis for this activity. Gene expression profiling and DNA content analysis showed that apratoxin A induces G1-phase cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Cell-based functional assays with a genome-wide co...

After the dyeing process, part of the dyes used to color textile materials are not fixed into the substrate and are discharged into wastewater as residual dyes. In this study, a heterogeneous photocatalytic process combined with microfiltration has been investigated for the removal of C.I. Disperse Red 73 from synthetic textile effluents. The titanium dioxide (TiO2) Aeroxide P25 was selected as...

An azobenzene molecule Disperse Red 1 with strongly delocalised frontier orbitals has been studied with a number of density-functional theory (DFT) related approaches. The purpose is two-fold: to interpret observed photoabsorption and to compare the performance of various DFT-based approximations. The planarity of the vacuum conformation of the lower energy trans conformation is found to be sig...

Copyright © 2016 The Korean Society of Phycology 167 http://e-algae.org pISSN: 1226-2617 eISSN: 2093-0860 Keeping house: evaluation of housekeeping genes for real-time PCR in the red alga, Bostrychia moritziana (Florideophyceae) Junbo Shim, Eunyoung Shim, Gwang Hoon Kim*, Jong Won Han and Giuseppe C. Zuccarello Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Kongju 32588, Korea National Mari...

New bacteria that was provided from contaminated soils surrounding the coal, aluminum, salt mines and wetland separated, synthesized and characterized. The achievements show that this soils and waters have five disposed bacteria consist of Microbacterium SP, Micrococcaceae Bacterium, Planomicrobium SP, Brevndimonas Aurantiaca and Halomonas SP. Secondly, the result of the potential of remova...