The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout resulted in oil transport, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to the Gulf of Mexico shoreline. The microbial communities of these shorelines are thought to be responsible for the intrinsic degradation of PAHs. To investigate the Gulf Coast beach microbial community response to hydrocarbon exposure, we examined the functional gene diversity, bac...

A strain of Absidia fusca was isolated from a pesticidecontaminated soil (Annaba, Algeria). The biotransformation capability of this strain towards two polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): anthracene and fluoranthene was compared to that exhibited by another strain of A. fusca isolated from a noncontaminated milieu and considered as a control. The results obtained were statistically analyze...

An analytical method is described for the simultaneous quantitation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons pAHs] and alkylderivatives [alkyl-PAHs] in "real world" samples using microbore reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography in conjunction with two programmable fluorescence detectors. Sensitivity and selectivity were enhanced by analyzing PAHs under their optimum fluorescence wavel...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: CCRs: Cumulative Cancer Risks; ETS: Environmental Tobacco Smoking; HAPs: Hazardous Air Pollutants; HEATS: Houston Exposure to Air Toxics Study; OVM: Organic Vapor Monitor (3MTM); PAHs: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; PM2.5: Particles Less Than 2.5 Micrometers in Diameter, Fine Particulate Matter; RIOPA: Relationship Among Indoor, Ou...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were quantified in sediment, soil, and plant material from Hanoi, Vietnam, and an aquatic production system in peri-urban Hanoi. The sum of the concentration of 16 US-EPA priority PAHs ( summation PAH16) ranged between 0.44 and 6.21 mg kg(-1) dw in sediment and between 0.26 and 1.35 mg kg(-1) dw in soil, with decreasing concentrations from the urban area ...

The DNA transformation is vital to the horizontal gene transfer (HGT). The low-efficiency transformation of bare plasmid exposed to hydrophobic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) decreases the gene transfer level, and is possibly related to the loss of bacterial diversity at present. PAHs have great affinity for bare DNA through dispersion force and π-π overlap between PAHs and bases. Thes...

A new L-glutamide derived internal C=O group containing HPLC stationary phase was synthesized. The L-glutamide lipid was immobilized on to silica surface through aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APS) linker. The detailed chemical structure of the compounds leading to the final lipid was characterized by melting point measurement, FTIR, H NMR and elemental analysis in each step. Chromatographic prop...

Reported herein is the use of γ-cyclodextrin for two tandem functions: (a) the extraction of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from oil samples into aqueous solution and (b) the promotion of highly efficient energy transfer from the newly extracted PAHs to a high-quantum-yield fluorophore. The extraction proceeded in moderate to good efficiencies, and the resulting cyclodextr...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are included in various environmental pollutants such as airborne particles and have been reported to induce a variety of toxic effects. On the other hand, PAH derivatives are generated from PAHs both through chemical reaction in the atmosphere and metabolism in the body.PAH derivatives have become known for their specific toxicities such as estrogenic/an...

Considerable progess has been made in recent years in chemical functionalization of fullerene molecules [see, for example: Taylor 93, and Diederich 96]. In some cases, the predominant reaction products are different from those obtained (using the same reactants) from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). One such example is the cycloaddition of o-benzyne to C60. It is well established that b...