The electrochemical behavior of o-nitrophenol was studied in detail with a glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The dependence of peak potential on pH indicated that equivalent electrons and protons were involved in the process of o-nitrophenol reduction. The interaction of o-nitrophenol with calf thymus DNA was investigated by adding DNA to the o-nitrophenol solution and by immobilizing DNA on GCE, ...

The present paper describes the functional characterization of two human aryl sulphotransferase (HAST) cDNAs, HAST1 and HAST3, previously isolated by us from liver and brain, respectively [Zhu, Veronese, Sansom, and McManus (1993) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 192, 671-676; Zhu, Veronese, Bernard, Sansom and McManus (1993) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 195, 120-127]. These appear to encode th...

(31 %), m-nitrophenol (9%), p-nitrophenol (9%), m-aminophenol (4%), o-aminophenol (3 %), 4nitrocatechol (0.7 %), aniline (033%) and o-nitrophenol (0.1%). Two new metabolites, nitroquinol (0.1%) and p-nitrophenylmercapturic acid (0.3%), were found in the urine. 4. The denitration products, phenol, catechol, L-phenylmercapturic acid, and trans-tran8-muconic acid, did not occur in the urine. 5. Ni...

We report a novel system to analyze atmospheric nitrophenols (NPs). Rain or air sample extracts (1 mL) are preconcentrated on a narrow bore (2 mm) aliphatic anion exchanger. In the absence of strong retention of NPs exhibited by aromatic ion exchangers, retained NPs are eluted as a plug by injection of 100 microL of 0.1 M Na(2)SO(4) on to a short (2 x 50 mm) reverse phase C-18 column packed wit...

Saturation mutagenesis was used to generate 10 mutants of toluene-o-xylene monooxygenase (ToMO) at alpha subunit (TouA) positions A101 and A110: A101G, A101I, A101M, A101VE, A101V, A110G, A110C, A110S, A110P, and A110T; by testing the substrates toluene, o-cresol, m-cresol, p-cresol, phenol, naphthalene, o-methoxyphenol, m-methoxyphenol, p-methoxyphenol, o-xylene, and nitrobenzene, these positi...

After discovering that toluene 4-monooxygenase (T4MO) of Pseudomonas mendocina KR1 oxidizes nitrobenzene to 4-nitrocatechol, albeit at a very low rate, this reaction was improved using directed evolution and saturation mutagenesis. Screening 550 colonies from a random mutagenesis library generated by error-prone PCR of tmoAB using Escherichia coli TG1/pBS(Kan)T4MO on agar plates containing nitr...

The dissociation constants of the following substituted phenols in 50 wt percent methanol have been measured at 25 °C: o-nitrophenol, p-nitrophenol, 4-methyl-2-nitrophenol, 2,6-di chlorophenol , pentachlorophenol. The respective values found, expressed as pK values, are 7.91" 7.692 , 8.28" 7.680 , and 5.27.. The dissociation cons tants of 4-methyl-2-nitrophenol and pentachlorophenol, again exp ...

The biodegaradation of p-nitrophenol was studied experimentally at different initial p-nitrophenol concentrations under different environmental and operational conditions (like incubation temperature, pH, inoculum size etc.) by using microbial strain Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus A6. The rate of degradation of pnitrophenol was observed maximum at incubation temperature 30 ̊C and pH 7 ± 0.2, inoc...