Reductive dehalogenases are the critical enzymes for anaerobic organohalide respiration, a microbial metabolic process that has been harnessed for bioremediation efforts to resolve chlorinated solvent contamination in groundwater and is implicated in the global halogen cycle. Reductive dehalogenase sequence diversity is informative for the dechlorination potential of the site or enrichment cult...

A unified extension of the gradient flows and the double bracket equations of ChuDriessel and Brockett is obtained in the frame work of reductive Lie groups. We examine the gradient flows on the orbit in the Cartan subspace of a reductive Lie algebra, under the adjoint action. The results of Chu-Driessel and Brockett are corresponding to the reductive groups GL(n,R) and O(p, q).

the difficult to handle and store zinc borohydride, zn(bh4)2, is stabilized by supporting it on polyvinylpyridine. this new mild, efficient, selective, and regenerable polymer supported borohydride reducing agent reduces a variety organic compounds such as, aldehydes, a-b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, acid chlorides, epoxides, disulfides, as well as reductive acetylation of carbonyl compounds...

Carbon isotope fractionation during autotrophic growth of different bacteria which possess different autotrophic C 0 2 fixation pathways has been studied. 13C /l2C-Ratios in the cell carbon of the following bacteria were determined ( C 0 2 fixation pathway suggested or proven in paren­ theses): Alkaligenes eutrophus (reductive pentose phosphate cycle), Desulfobacterium autotrophicum and A cetob...

The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a monolayer of pigmented cells that requires an active metabolism to maintain outer retinal homeostasis and compensate for oxidative stress. Using 13C metabolic flux analysis in human RPE cells, we found that RPE has an exceptionally high capacity for reductive carboxylation, a metabolic pathway that has recently garnered significant interest because of i...

We say that a finite dimensional Lie algebra is quasi-reductive if it has a linear form whose stabilizer for the coadjoint representation, modulo the center, is a reductive Lie algebra with a center consisting of semisimple elements. Parabolic subalgebras of a semisimple Lie algebra are not always quasi-reductive (except in types A or C by work of Panyushev). The classification of quasireductiv...

This paper gives an algorithm for computing invariant rings of reductive groups in arbitrary characteristic. Previously, only algorithms for linearly reductive groups and for finite groups have been known. The key step is to find a separating set of invariants.