The interaction of sulfur mustard with aminoacids and proteins has been investigated in this study. Rats were injected with sublethal doses of sulfur mustard subcutaneously and intraperitoneally. At different time intervals, plasma and urine samples were collected. The binding affinity of sulfur mustard with urinary and plasma proteins and enzymes was studied for the first time using non-i...

Microbial treatment of biodegradable wastes not only ensures neutralization harmful substances such as volatile organic compounds but also enables valorization and bio-circularity within the society. Single cell protein (SCP) is a value-added product that can be obtained from waste materials food via microbial fermentation. In this article, SCP derived potato starch was demonstrated viable alte...

BACKGROUND Acidithiobacillus caldus (A. caldus) is widely used in bio-leaching. It gains energy and electrons from oxidation of elemental sulfur and reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (RISCs) for carbon dioxide fixation and growth. Genomic analyses suggest that its sulfur oxidation system involves a truncated sulfur oxidation (Sox) system (omitting SoxCD), non-Sox sulfur oxidation system simila...

The low sulfur amino acid content of legume seeds restricts their nutritive value for animals. We have investigated the limitations to the accumulation of sulfur amino acids in the storage proteins of narrow leaf lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) seeds. Variation in sulfur supply to lupin plants affected the sulfur amino acid accumulation in the mature seed. However, when sulfur was in abundant sup...

Improving the barrier properties to gas and organic compounds of biosourced polyesters, such as polylactides (PLAs), by increasing their crystallinity has been suggested by several authors. This paper investigates the risk of microphase separation for a technological approach that would involve a plasticization of PLA, to further its crystallization kinetics, with common plasticizers: Acetyl tr...

The relaxation by creep recovery of plasticized poly lvinyl chloride) (PVC) was tested in relation to applied stresses and working temperatures. The relaxation time increased with stress but decreased with temperature. From the temperature dependence of relaxation times, an energy of 0.21 eV was found to activate the creep recovery process. It is thought that creep recovery is effected by the c...