To establish a novel method for the efficient isolation of Chlamydia pneumoniae, experiments were performed to determine the effects of EDTA or trypsin treatment of C. pneumoniae on its adsorption and inclusion body formation. Treatment of C. pneumoniae with 0.1% trypsin or 1 mM EDTA significantly increased inclusion body-forming activity from 8,000- to 10,000-fold higher than that of the contr...

An exopolysaccharide depolymerase was isolated from a mucoid strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa of cystic fibrosis origin. Purified preparations of the depolymerase showed maximum activity against the unacetylated polymannuronic acid exopolysaccharide from the same strain and little activity against commercially prepared alginic acid. The evidence suggests that the enzyme is either periplasmic in...

Uptake of copper complexes by fish was studied by exposing neon tetras (Paracheirodon innesi) to solutions containing different concentrations of copper complexed to EDTA, diaminoethane, oxalic acid, or tartaric acid, while other copper species were kept at low and constant levels. The distribution of the copper species in the solution was quantified using chemical equilibrium modeling. It was ...

Antigen Retrieval Overview  Overview of Heat-induced Epitope Retrieval Techniques and Devices Room Temperature Epitope Retrieval (RTER)  Hydrochloric Acid Method (pH 1)  Formic Acid Method (pH 2) Heat Induced Epitope Retrieval (HIER)  Citrate Buffer Method (pH 6)  Citrate-EDTA Buffer Method (pH 6.2)  EDTA Method (pH 8)  Tris-EDTA Method (pH 9)  TBS Method (pH 9)  Tris Buffer Method (pH...

2,3-dioxogulonic acid and the disodium salt of its enol were synthesised, isolated and identified both chemically and spectroscopically. A kinetic study was carried out on its equilibrium by means of the “stopped flow” method for rapid processes, and the rate constants for the forward and backward reaction were determined as a function of the pH of the medium. The kinetic coefficients involved,...

The photophosphorylation activity of pigmented particles derived from membranes of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas caflsulata is greatly diminished by sonic treatment in the presence of EDTA. Activity can be largely restored to treated particles by addition of solubilized protein factor or factors, which functionally resemble coupling factors isolated from other kinds of energy-co...

The influence of temperature and relative air humidity on the stability of ceftriaxone disodium (CTN) in Biotrakson and Tartriakson was investigated. At RH = 0%, the degradation of ceftriaxone was the first-order reaction, while at RH from 50.9% to 76.4% it was an autocatalytic first-order reaction relative to the substrate concentration. The influence of temperature on the stability of CTN was...

BACKGROUND Extensive variations in human surfactant protein D (SP-D) levels in circulation as measured by ELISA exist in the published literature. In order to determine the source of these variations, factors influencing the measurement by ELISA were explored. MATERIALS AND METHODS Peripheral blood from healthy individuals was collected into various vacutainers during the same blood draw. Rec...

The thermophilic bacteriophage TP84 is dissociated into its head, tail, and released deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by chelating agents such as ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and phosphate. The phage is more sensitive to EDTA than to phosphate, and dialysis against either agent causes more effective dissociation than standing in their presence. The tail possesses a knobbed structure which ...

A sensitive and selective chemiluminescence method was developed to determine ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in water samples. It was observed that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) catalyzed chemiluminescence (CL) reactions of permanganate-aldehydes which underwent an enhancement effect in the presence of iron(III) ions (Fe(3+)). This effect is more remarkable in the presence of EDTA, and a h...