Cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 (CNF1) from uropathogenic Escherichia coli belongs to a family of factors activating Rho GTPases. We report the in vivo effects of CNF1 in mice co-fed toxin and the soluble protein antigen ovalbumin (OVA). Similar to cholera toxin, CNF1 elicits adjuvanticity anti-OVA responses, both systemic and mucosal. In contrast, the catalytic inactive mutant CNF1-C866S demons...

In this manuscript, the experimental setup was designed and fabricated for optimizing the parameters of a catalytic converter of INDICA V2 exhaust system. Three turbulence intensify devices, namely Swirl Venturi, Swirl Blades and Swirl Contour, were close-fitted before the catalytic converter. The heating element is embedded in its body and thermocouples are used for knowing the performance at ...

in this paper, labo3 perovskite type catalyst formulations were prepared by sol-gel auto combustion method using citric acid as the fuel. activity of catalysts was tested in catalytic oxidation of toluene as a model of volatile organic compounds. lacoo3 perovskite formulation showed the highest activity among labo3 (fe, mn and co) perovskite catalysts. so, lacoo3 perovskite based catalyst was s...

a general overview on the prospective of various oxidation and combined processes in the treatment of tannery industry effluent are reported. various oxidation and combined processes such as uv/h2o2/hypochlorites, fenton and electro-oxidation, photo-chemical, photo-catalytic, electro-catalytic oxidation, wet air oxidation, ozonation, biological followed by ozone/uv/ h2o2, coagulation or ele...

background: sulfur compounds must be removed from petroleum because they contribute to environmental pollution. a strong alkaline solution such as caustic soda is used to remove these compounds. this spent caustic has high values for chemical oxygen demand (cod) concentration, ph and total sulfur. in this study, the regeneration and treatment methodology of sulfidic spent caustic was investigat...

conclusions according to the results, cop is an efficient and rapid method for removing of toluene from aqueous solutions. results the analysis of variance (anova) of the toluene degradation by cop/mgo nanoparticles showed f-value of 19.53 for the quadratic model indicating that the prepared model is significant. the predicted result showed that maximum degradation of toluene (~99.99%) could be...

catalytically graphitized electrospun carbon nanofibers adorned uniformly with fine nickel nanoparticles were successfully prepared. the procedure was based on the electrospinning technique and the use of nickel precursor to create both graphitized nanofibers and nickel nanoparticles under a relatively low-temperature heat treatment. the x-ray diffraction and raman results clearly proved cataly...

a simple, selective and sensitive method for the determination of trace amount of titanium (iv) based on its catalytic effect on methylene blue- ascorbic acid redox reaction has been reported. the reaction was followed spectrophotometrically by measuring the change in absorbance of methylene blue at 665 nm, 5 minutes after the initiation of the reaction. in this study experimental parameters we...

it is now well established that the type la of serine/threonine protein phosphatases (pp1α) may be implicated in malignant phenotype. although the pp1α mrna level increased in livers at preneo-plastic stages of hepatocarinogenesis and all of examined rat ascites hepatomas, unexpectedly, dra-matically decreased in some of primary hepatomas. in order to elucidate the low level of pp1α mrna in som...

so42-/zno-tio2 catalyst was prepared by sulfating zno-tio2 powders with h2so4 solution. the catalyst was characterized by xrd, ir and hammett indicator. the catalyst showed strong acidity(h0 ≦-16.0). the optimum conditions are found that the calcination temperature is 823k and the soaked consistency of h2so4 is 1 mol/dm3. then so42-/zno-tio2 was applied as the catalyst in the catalytic synthesi...