Viruses are the most abundant biological entities of global ocean and have a pervasive role in marine ecosystems because, being major cause mortality, they module functioning food webs, biogeochemical cycling. This is due not only to their ability infect lyse organisms but also decomposition particles (viral decay). The organic matter viral origin, indeed, can be recycled by benthic thus repres...

Comprehensive disinfectant decay and disinfection by-product formation (D/DBP) models in chlorination and ozonation were developed to apply to various types of raw and treated waters. Comparison of several types of models, such as empirical power function models and empirical kinetic models, was provided in order to choose more robust and accurate models for the D/DBP simulations. An empirical ...

Soil physical structure causes differential accessibility of soil organic carbon (SOC) to decomposer organisms and is an important determinant of SOC storage and turnover. Techniques for physical fractionation of soil organic matter in conjunction with isotopic analyses (dC, dN) of those soil fractions have been used previously to (a) determine where organic C is stored relative to aggregate st...

A new functional luminescent lanthanide complex (LLC) has been synthesized with terbium as a central lanthanide ion and biotin as a functional moiety. Unlike in typical lanthanide complexes assembled via carboxylic moieties, in the presented complex, four phosphate groups are chelating the central lanthanide ion. This special chemical assembly enhances the complex stability in phosphate buffers...

Background: Nonstop decay (NSD) mechanism has remained unknown in mammalian cells. Result: Degradation of unstable non-stop mRNA requires Hbs1, Dom34 as well as exosome-Ski complex in mammalian cells. Conclusion: NSD mechanism exists in mammalian cells, which involves a member of eRF3 family of G proteins, Hbs1. Significance: Our work provides a foundation for dissecting detailed molecular basi...