These studies examined the kinetic and mechanistic parameters of mi tomycin C (MMC) bioreduction by xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH), an enzyme recently shown to be capable of MMC activation. The bioreduc tion of MMC by XDH leads to the formation of 2,7-diaminomitosene (2,7-DM) under both aerobic and hypoxic conditions, with greater 2,7-DM formation observed under hypoxic conditions. The XDH-induce...

Selenium nanoparticles (Se-NPs) were synthesized by green technology using the bacterial isolate Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain JS-11. The bacteria exhibited significant tolerance to selenite (SeO3(2-)) up to 100 mM concentration with an EC50 value of 140 mM. The spent medium (culture supernatant) contains the potential of reducing soluble and colorless SeO3(2-) to insoluble red elemental seleni...

introduction: iron cycle is one of the most important biogeochemical processes which affect the availability of iron in soils. ferric iron oxides are the most abundant forms of iron in soils and sediments. ferric iron is highly insoluble at circumneutral ph. present investigations have shown that the structural ferric iron bound in clay minerals is reduced by some microorganisms. anaerobic bact...

The influence of sediment bioreduction and reoxidation on U(VI) sorption was studied using Fe(II) oxide-containing saprolite from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge site. Bioreduced sediments were generated by anoxic incubation with a metal-reducing bacterium, Shewanella putrefaciens strain CN32, supplied with lactate as an electron donor. The reduced sediments were subsequently reox...

Arsenic sorbs strongly to the surfaces of Fe(III) (hydr)oxides. Under aerobic conditions, oxygen acts as the terminal electron acceptor in microbial respiration and Fe(III) (hydr)oxides are highly insoluble, thus arsenic remains associated with Fe(III) (hydr)oxide phases. However, under anaerobic conditions Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms can couple the reduction of solid phase Fe(III) (hydr)ox...

silver nanoparticles with size of 6- 57nm were synthesized by bioreduction method from anisochilus carnosus aqueous and ethanolic extract. biosynthesized nanoparticles showed maximum antimicrobial activity against k. pneumonia (13±1.67mm), e.coli (13±1.97mm) and b. subtilis (13±1.07mm) followed by p. aeruginosa and minimum against s. aureus. the quantitative formation, characteristics and impur...

The combination of small-molecule catalysis and enzyme represents an underexploited area research with huge potential in asymmetric synthetic chemistry due to both compatibility reaction conditions complementary reactivity. Herein, we describe the telescopic synthesis chiral nitro alcohols starting from commercially available benzaldehyde derivatives through one-pot three-step chemoenzymatic ca...