Accumulation of arsenic has potential health risks through consumption of food. Here, we inserted the arsenite [As(III)] S-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase (ArsM) gene into the chromosome of Pseudomonas putida KT2440. Recombinant bacteria methylate inorganic arsenic into less toxic organoarsenicals. This has the potential for bioremediation of environmental arsenic and reducing arsenic cont...

The anesthetic effects of clove-oil-derived eugenol were studied in the zebrafish, Danio rerio (Hamilton). Acute lethality and the effects of exposures to various dosages of eugenol were measured. The estimated 96-h LC50 for eugenol was 21 ppm. Times to induction and recovery from anesthesia were measured and compared with MS-222 under similar conditions. Eugenol induced anesthesia faster and a...

A new program (Multiple Motif Scanning) was developed to scan the Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteome for Class I S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferases. Conserved Motifs I, Post I, II, and III were identified and expanded in known methyltransferases by primary sequence and secondary structural analysis through hidden Markov model profiling of both a yeast reference database and a refe...

In the title compound, [Cu(2)(C(8)H(11)N(2)O(3)S)(2)Cl(2)], the Cu atoms are five-coordinated in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry by three donor atoms of the deprotonated anionic 2-(2-pyridylmethyl-amino)ethanesulfonate (pmt) ligand and two Cl atoms. The Cl atoms bridge two Cu atoms, giving a binuclear structure; the centroid of the Cu(2)Cl(2) ring lies on a crystallographic center of inve...

Eugenol and carvacrol from clove and oregano, respectively, are agonists of the warmth-sensitive transient receptor potential channel TRPV3 and the irritant-sensitive transient receptor potential ankyrin (TRPA)-1. Eugenol and carvacrol induce oral irritation that rapidly desensitizes, accompanied by brief enhancement of innocuous warmth and heat pain in humans. We presently investigated if euge...

UNLABELLED Eugenol, a natural capsaicin congener, is widely used in dentistry. Eugenol inhibits voltage-activated Na(+) and Ca(2+) channels in a transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1)-independent manner. We hypothesized that eugenol also inhibits voltage-gated K(+) currents, and investigated this in rat trigeminal ganglion neurons and in a heterologous system using whole-cell patch cl...

Polymethylated Flavonols, Identification, Enzymatic Synthesis, O-Methyltransferase, Chrysosplenium americanum, Saxifragaceae The major flavonoid constituents of Chrysosplenium americanum (Saxifragaceae) were identi­ fied by UV-, NMRand mass spectroscopy and the analysis of their hydrolytic products. They consisted of two 2'-0-/?-D-glucosides of partially methylated 2'-hydroxyquercetin and four ...

In this work, we present a comparative case study of "ortho-" and "meta-nitrated" catecholic inhibitors of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), with regard to their interaction with the catalytic site of the enzyme and the in vitro regioselective formation of their mono-O-methyl ether metabolites. In particular, the effects of altering the attachment position of the inhibitors' side-chain subst...