in order to investigate the effect of different levels of cycosel and naphthalene acetic acid on some vegetative traits and on essential oil yield from rose-scented geranium (pelargonium graveolens heritier), an experiment was conducted in 2008 in the research greenhouse of horticulture department of zanjan university. the study was arranged as a factorial experiment, based upon a randomized co...

In the midst of an outbreak, carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii was grown from samples of multiple environmental sites in an intensive care unit. A commercial oxidizing disinfectant (potassium peroxomonosulphate 50%, sodium alkyl benzene sulphonate 15%, and sulphamic acid 5%) was introduced throughout the intensive care unit, and its use coincided with cessation of the outbreak.

The title compound, C(26)H(18)F(2)O(4), is a naphthalene derivative in which the two aroyl groups at the 1- and 8-positions (peri positions) are anti to each other. There is an appreciable difference in the dihedral angles between the naphthalene ring system and the two benzene rings [66.88 (7)° and 88.09 (6)°]. In the crystal, weak C-H⋯O inter-actions involving one of the carbonyl groups and a...

Rhodococcus sp. strain TFB is a metabolic versatile bacterium able to grow on naphthalene as the only carbon and energy source. Applying proteomic, genetic and biochemical approaches, we propose in this paper that, at least, three coordinated but independently regulated set of genes are combined to degrade naphthalene in TFB. First, proteins involved in tetralin degradation are also induced by ...

AIMS To investigate the distribution of a polymicrobial community of biodegradative bacteria in (i) soil and groundwater at a former manufactured gas plant (FMGP) site and (ii) in a novel SEquential REactive BARrier (SEREBAR) bioremediation process designed to bioremediate the contaminated groundwater. METHODS AND RESULTS Culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses using denaturing gra...

Pseudomonas sp. NCIB 9816 contains two plasmids: pWW60, an IncP9 plasmid of 87 kb encoding genes for the catabolism of naphthalene, and pWW61, a cryptic plasmid of about 65 kb. The ability to degrade naphthalene was transferred at low frequency by conjugation from strain NCIB 98 16 into a plasmid-free strain of Pseudomonasputida, PaW340. A transconjugant, PaW701, containing the naphthalene plas...

The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon naphthalene is an environmental pollutant, a component of jet fuel and, since 2000, has been reclassified as a potential human carcinogen. Few studies of the in vitro human metabolism of naphthalene are available and these focus primarily on lung metabolism. The current studies were performed to characterize naphthalene metabolism by human cytochromes P450 (C...

Drug transporters have been shown to alter drug metabolism. Similarly, bioactivation of drugs may also be altered by drug transporters. The aim of this work was to examine the role of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) in the bioactivation of a Pgp substrate, raloxifene, and a non-Pgp substrate, naphthalene. To evaluate the extent of bioactivation, covalent binding was measured. In both freshly isolated and ...

Although polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have usually been found to persist under strict anaerobic conditions, in a previous study an unusual site was found in San Diego Bay in which two PAHs, naphthalene and phenanthrene, were oxidized to carbon dioxide under sulfate-reducing conditions. Further investigations with these sediments revealed that methylnaphthalene, fluorene, and fluorant...