As a result of a widespread application in numerous industrial processes, chromium is a contaminant of many environmental systems. Chromium and their compounds are toxic to both invertebrates and vertebrates and, for this reason, there has been a search for suitable and less toxic alternatives. Molybdenum compounds have been studied as alternative to chromium compounds for some industrial appli...

The conditions for the inactivation of glucocorticoid receptors in the cytosol from lactating mouse mammary glands have been studied in detail. The dexamethasone-binding capacity of cytosol was variable and decreased to near zero levels by 4 h when incubated without steroid at 4°C. This loss of binding activity was partially prevented by binding of the steroid and was readily reversed by sulfhy...

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a cytosolic basic helix-loop-helix protein that associates with a chaperone complex that includes two molecules of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90). It has been hypothesized that after ligand binding, the AhR dissociates from its chaperone complex and translocates into the nucleus, where it heterodimerizes with its DNA binding partner, the AhR nuclear translo...

The structure of the type I tetraheme cytochrome c(3) from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans G20 was determined to 1.5 Angstrom by X-ray crystallography. In addition to the oxidized form, the structure of the molybdate-bound form of the protein was determined from oxidized crystals soaked in sodium molybdate. Only small structural shifts were obtained with metal binding, consistent with the remarkabl...

Rhodobacter capsulatus is able to grow with N2 as the sole nitrogen source using either a molybdenum-dependent or a molybdenum-free iron-only nitrogenase whose expression is strictly inhibited by ammonium. Disruption of the fdxD gene, which is located directly upstream of the Mo-nitrogenase genes, nifHDK, abolished diazotrophic growth via Mo-nitrogenase at oxygen concentrations still tolerated ...

the kinetics and mechanisms of the substitution reactions of trans-[co(en)2cncl]+ with unidentate anions,  , cn¯, i¯,  , br¯ and scn¯ in 60% v/v dmf-h2o binary solvent at 40.0±0.2 °c were studied spectrophotometrically. an id mechanism was assigned for the replacement of chlorine by , cn¯ and i¯, an ia one for the entry of  and scn¯, and a d mechanism for br¯ entry. comparing the interchange ra...

in this research, this possibility was investigated the relative stablilty geometry and bindingenergies of the hydrogen bonds of molybdate-phosphonic acid (mpa) complex in gas phase onthe basis of result of ab initio and dft calculations. three dft methods have been applied forcalculations are b3lyp, bp86 and b3pw91 that have been studied in two series of basis sets:d95** and 6-31+g(d,p) for hy...

Maleimides are often used for biomolecular conjugation with thiols. An underappreciated aspect of the imido group in a maleimide conjugate is its susceptibility to spontaneous hydrolysis, resulting in undesirable heterogeneity. Here, a chromophoric maleimide is used to demonstrate that both molybdate and chromate catalyze the hydrolysis of an imido group near neutral pH. Tungstate and 4-(dimeth...

Ammonium production in the presence of specific inhibitors of sulfate reduction and methanogenesis was investigated in six marine sediments which differed in bulk properties and organic matter input. In all cases, little effect of the inhibitors on ammonium production was observed, although sulfate reduction was suppressed by molybdate. This gives evidence that the processes of fermentation and...