The addition of a small amount of NH4+ to a complex medium increased nanaomycin production by Streptomyces rosa subsp. notoensis OS-3966. The best NH4+ donor for nanaomycin production was NH4+-saturated natural zeolite, with which the maximum titer of nanaomycin E was 760 micrograms/ml, about four fold higher than the control titer. In contrast, lowering NH4+ levels by adding NH4+-trapping agen...

A freshwater "mussel mortality threshold" was explored as a function of porewater ammonium (NH4+) concentration, mussel biomass, and total nitrogen (N) utilizing a numerical model calibrated with data from mesocosms with and without mussels. A mortality threshold of 2 mg-N L-1 porewater NH4+ was selected based on a study that estimated 100% mortality of juvenile Lampsilis mussels exposed to 1.9...

The title compound, NH(4) (+)·C(5)H(14)NO(6)P(2) (-), was obtained from 1-ammonio-1-phosphono-pentane-1-phospho-nic acid and ammonium hydroxide in aqueous solution. The asymmetric unit of title compound contains one molecule, which consists of an ammonium cation and an aminodiphosphonic anion with the H atoms transferred from the phosphonic acid group to the amino group. The crystal structure s...

The phylogenetic affiliation and physiological characteristics (e.g., Ks and maximum specific growth rate [μmax]) of an anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacterium, "Candidatus Scalindua sp.," enriched from the marine sediment of Hiroshima Bay, Japan, were investigated. "Candidatus Scalindua sp." exhibits higher affinity for nitrite and a lower growth rate and yield than the known anammox ...

We survey here state of the art mass spectrometry methodologies for investigating G-quadruplexes, and will illustrate them with a new study on a simple model system: the dimeric G-quadruplex of the 12-mer telomeric DNA sequence d(TAGGGTTAGGGT), which can adopt either a parallel or an antiparallel structure. We will discuss the solution conditions compatible with electrospray ionisation, the qua...

A bisection sampling method was implemented in path integral simulations of chemical reactions in solution in the framework of the quantized classical path approach. In the present study, we employ a combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) potential to describe the potential energy surface and the path integral method to incorporate nuclear quantum effects. We examine the c...

In the crystal structure of the 1:1 title salt, C(4)H(12)NO(2) (+)·C(6)H(4)BrO(-), hydrogen-bonding inter-actions originate from the ammonium cation, which adopts a syn conformation. A gauche relationship between the C-O and C-N bonds of the 2-hy-droxy-ethyl fragments also facilitates O-H⋯O inter-actions of bis-(2-hy-droxy-eth-yl)ammonium cation chains to phenolate O atoms. The resulting double...

In this paper, urea biosensors based on detection of pH and ammonium ions are presented. As transducers pH-sensitive ion-selective field effect transistors (ISFETs) and chemically modified FETs (ChemFETs) sensitive to ammonium ions were used. Results concerning urea determination by the biosensors in blood plasma and in dialysate show that the biosensors can be applied for urea monitoring in th...