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Purification & characterization of PceC protein involved in Dehalorespiration by Desulfitobacterium & Dehalobacter spp

Organohalide respiration (previously named as dehalorespiration) is a process during which microbes derive energy by the reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated organic pollutants and use them as terminal electron acceptors, hence helping in environmental ...

2010

Portrait of the potential barrier at metal-organic nanocontacts

Klaus Kern

Electron transport through metal-molecule contacts greatly affects the operation and performance of electronic devices based on organic semiconductors(1-4) and is at the heart of molecular electronics exploiting single-molecule junctions(5-8). Much of our ...

2010

Purification & characterization of PceC protein involved in dehalorespiration by desulfitobacterium & dehalobacter

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, Aamani Rupakula Boyanapalli

Dehalorespiration is a process during which microbes derive energy by the reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated organic pollutants, by using them as electron acceptors. Characterization of the full dehalorespiration pathway in dehalogenating organisms is ...

2010

Concept of a Molecular Charge Storage Dielectric Layer for Organic Thin-Film Memory Transistors

Francesco Stellacci, Kislon Voitchovsky

A mixed self-assembled monolayer containing aliphatic and electron-accepting (C-60) components is employed as an ultrathin molecular gate dielectric to facilitate reversible, nonvolatile electronic memory functionality in organic transistors at low supply ...

2010

Phylogenetic and functional marker genes to study ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) in the environment

Thomas Junier

The oxidation of ammonia plays a significant role in the transformation of fixed nitrogen in the global nitrogen cycle. Autotrophic ammonia oxidation is known in three groups of microorganisms. Aerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea convert ammonia ...

Springer-Verlag2010

Products of abiotic U(VI) reduction by biogenic magnetite and vivianite

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Harish Veeramani, Daniel Scott Alessi

Reductive immobilization of uranium by the stimulation of dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB) has been investigated as a remediation strategy for subsurface U(VI) contamination. In those environments, DMRB may utilize a variety of electron accepto ...

Elsevier2010

Insights and Modelling Tools for Designing and Improving Chlorinated Solvent Bioremediation Applications

David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Clare Robinson

The chlorinated solvents tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) have been used extensively in industry and are now amongst the most common and hazardous groundwater contaminants. These solvents are typically present as dense, non-aqueous phase l ...

CL:AIRE (Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments)2010

Regeneration of oxidized photosensitizers: Quantum-chemical portray of a general mechanism

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

The direct conversion of sun light to elec. power in mol. photoelectrochem. systems, aka Gratzel solar cells, is one of the promising "solar technologies" for utilization of abundant solar light as alternative energy source. Considering advantages of Gratz ...

American Chemical Society2010

Identification and characterization of proteins supporting dehalorespiration in Desulfitobacterium hafniense strain TCE1

Laure Prat

Respiration is a fundamental catalytic process in the aerobic and anaerobic energy metabolism of many prokaryotic and most eukaryotic organisms. The major difference between these organisms is that various organic and inorganic substrates can be used to do ...

EPFL2009

TsrE: a sulfur-transferase involved in various anaerobic respiration pathways ?

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, Laure Prat

TsrE, a 32kDa sulfur-transferase with two rhodanese domains, was identified as a result of its over-expression during anaerobic tetrachloroethene respiration by the obligate gram-positive anaerobe Desulfitobacterium hafniense. The tsrE gene is part of an o ...

2009

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