Chromium in the sixth oxidation state may easily penetrate cellular membranes via non-specific sulfate transporters due to its tetrahedral symmetry (high similarity to SO4(2-) and HPO4(2-)). This feature makes chromium a toxic and hazardous pollutant responsible for the deterioration of midland water quality. The aim of the study was to evaluate the capacity of two yeast species - Saccharomyces...

The reaction of the hydroxyl radical with chloride on the surface of sea salt aerosol producing gas phase Cl2 and particulate OH and its implications for the chemistry of the marine boundary layer under coastal, remote, and very remote conditions have been investigated with a numerical model. This reaction had been suggested by Laskin et al. (2003) to play a major role in the sulfur cycle in th...

Electron detachment dissociation (EDD) has previously provided stereo-specific product ions that allow for the assignment of the acidic C-5stereochemistry in heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), but application of the same methodology to an epimer pair in the chondroitin sulfate glycoform class does not provide the same result. A series of experiments have been conducted in which glycosam...

The crucial role of manganese(III) species in the oxidative and catalytic reactivity manganese oxides have been widely reported. However, direct activation radical precursors by Mn(III) is still a matter discussion. In this work, ability Mn(III)-bearing oxide (Mn2O3) for peroxydisulfate (PS) peroxymonosulfate (PMS) was evaluated compared using caffeine (CAF) as model pollutant. Complete CAF rem...

Photocatalytic materials for photocatalysis is recently proposed as a promising strategy to address environmental remediation. Metal-free graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4), an emerging photocatalyst in sulfate radical based advanced oxidation processes. The solar-driven electronic excitations g-C3N4 are capable of peroxo (O?O) bond dissociation peroxymonosulfate/peroxydisulfate (PMS/PDS) and ox...

Fucosylated chondroitin sulfate (fCS) from sea cucumber Isostichopus badionotus (fCS-Ib) with a chondroitin sulfate type E (CSE) backbone and 2,4-O-sulfo fucose branches has shown excellent anticoagulant activity although has also show severe adverse effects. Depolymerization represents an effective method to diminish this polysaccharide's side effects. The present study reports a modified cont...

In this study, activated peroxydisulfate (PDS) by micrometer copper oxide (CuO) particles effectively degraded phenol and several antibiotics in water. Cupryl ion (Cu(III)) was proposed for the first time to be predominant reactive species accounting contaminants degradation CuO/PDS oxidation system. Singlet oxygen also heavily produced from superoxide radical anion (•O2−) decomposition found b...

[1] Both sulfur and oxygen isotopes of sulfate preserved in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica have provided information on the relative sources of sulfate in the ice and their chemical transformation pathways in the atmosphere over various time periods. The mass-independent fractionation in the oxygen isotopes of sulfate from the Vostok ice core from east Antarctica suggests that gas-phas...

The fucoidan from Sargassum thunbergii was isolated by both hot water and enzyme hydrolyzing by taking the yield of extracted fucoidan, the content of sulfate radical and the content of polysaccharides as indicators. The orthogonal tests were designed to optimize the variable factors. The findings showed that the optimized factors for extracting fucoidan by hot water were temperature 98 , pH6, ...

Chronic hyperglycemia in diabetes is a major causative factor of free radical generation which further leads to many secondary diabetic complications via the damage to cellular proteins, membrane lipids, and nucleic acids. Zinc is an essential trace element in all living systems and plays a structural role in many proteins and enzymes. Somatostatin is known to have inhibitory effects on various...