Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-degradative genes, under the control of a constitutive promoter, were cloned into a broad-host-range plasmid and a transposon. These constructs were inserted into a surfactant-utilizing strain, Pseudomonas putida IPL5, to create a field application vector (FAV) in which a surfactant-degrading organism cometabolizes PCB. By utilizing a surfactant not readily availa...

Degradative processes of fleshy fruit adapt depending on environmental conditions. Exposure banana to abiotic stress during ripening accelerates degradative that resemble Programmed Cell Death (PCD). This research evaluated the connection between Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) production and PCD over-ripening after exposure at pre-climacteric phase (before exogenous ethylene treatment). Mature-g...

Adipocytes route internalized insulin through two major pathways, a degradative pathway and a retroendocytotic pathway. To examine whether sorting of incoming insulin-receptor complexes can be altered, we assessed the effect of vanadate on the intracellular processing of both insulin and insulin receptors. After cells were pretreated with vanadate (1 mM for 30 min at 37 degrees C), 125I-insulin...

Several fibroblast and melanoma cell lines were studied with respect to their ability to degrade heparan sulfate (HS). The optimum pH for HS degradation by HS endoglycosidase (heparanase) for all cell lines is about 5.6, but the activity of the enzyme is still present at physiological pH. The gel permeation analysis of degradation products revealed that heparanase cuts HS in fragments about one...

A fluorescence assay developed for the quantitation of intracellular fusion of sequentially formed endocytic compartments (Salzman, N. H., and F. R. Maxfield. 1988 J. Cell Biol. 106:1083-1091) has been used to measure the time course of endosome fusion accessibility along the recycling and degradative endocytic pathways. Transferrin (Tf) was used to label the recycling pathway, and alpha2-macro...

The Biodegradative Strain Database (BSD) is a freely-accessible, web-based database providing detailed information on degradative bacteria and the hazardous substances that they degrade, including corresponding literature citations, relevant patents and links to additional web-based biological and chemical data. The BSD (http://bsd.cme.msu.edu) is being developed within the phylogenetic framewo...

the present study is to study linear free energy relationships (lfers) for dechlorination ratesin cement/fe(ii) slurries of eight chlorinated hydrocarbons including carbon tetrachloride, chloroform produced from carbon tetrachloride, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, trichloroethylene produced from 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethylene, and vinyl chloride,...