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Chien-Yuan Lin; Jack P. Wang; Quanzi Li; Hsi-Chuan Chen; Jie Liu; Philip Loziuk; Jina Song; Cranos Williams; David C. Muddiman; Ronald R. Sederoff; Vincent L. Chiang
Populus trichocarpa; biosynthesis; caffeic acid; coenzyme A; equations; gene expression regulation; genetically modified organisms; hydroxycinnamoyltransferase; hydroxylation; ligases; lignin; liquid chromatography; metabolites; shikimic acid; stemwood; tandem mass spectrometry; trans-cinnamate 4-monooxygenase
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... Downregulation of 4-coumaric acid:coenzyme A ligase (4CL) can reduce lignin content in a number of plant species. In lignin precursor (monolignol) biosynthesis during stem wood formation in Populus trichocarpa, two enzymes, Ptr4CL3 and Ptr4CL5, catalyze the coenzyme A (CoA) ligation of 4-coumaric acid to 4-coumaroyl-CoA and caffeic acid to caffeoyl-CoA. CoA ligation of 4-coumaric acid is essential ...
M. Pintado-Sierra; I. García-Álvarez; A. Bribián; E.M. Medina-Rodríguez; R. Lebrón-Aguilar; L. Garrido; F. de Castro; A. Fernández-Mayoralas; J.E. Quintanilla-López
brain; central nervous system diseases; chemometrics; fatty acids; humans; hydroxylation; ionization; liquid chromatography; mice; myelin sheath; pathogenesis; tandem mass spectrometry
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... Sulfatides are sulfoglycolipids found in the myelin sheath. The composition ratio of sulfatide molecular species changes with age, and it has also been associated with the pathogenesis of various human central nervous system diseases. However, profiling sulfatides in biological samples is difficult, due to the great variety of molecular species. In this work, a new, easy and reliable liquid chroma ...
animal and human health; environmental fate; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; liver microsomes; metabolism; metabolites; persistent organic pollutants; rats; tandem mass spectrometry; tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin; toxicity
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... 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) is known as a highly toxic environmental contaminant and poses potential risks to human and animal health. As a persistent organic pollutant, 2,3,7,8-TCDD is hard to metabolize and thus gets accumulated in the human and animal body. Literature reports on the metabolism study of 2,3,7,8-TCDD are rare. The traditional method of GC-MS for 2,3,7,8-TCD ...
... Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) possess toxicity towards humans, and their presence in the environment is unwanted. Polar transformation products (TPs) are more mobile, and can be considered emerging contaminants, as they represent a more bioavailable carrier of the same toxic properties. Acidic TPs has been proposed as an important class of polar TPs. This study presents a tiered analytical ...
Ugo Bussy; Marcel Delaforge; Chaimaâ El-Bekkali; Véronique Ferchaud-Roucher; Michel Krempf; Illa Tea; Nicolas Galland; Denis Jacquemin; Mohammed Boujtita
... A comparative study of the electrochemical conversion and the biotransformation performed by the cytochrome P450 (CYP450) obtained by rat liver microsomes has been achieved to elucidate the oxidation mechanism of both acebutolol and alprenolol. For this purpose, a wide range of reactions such as N-dealkylation, O-dealkoxylation, aromatic hydroxylation, benzyl hydroxylation, alkyl hydroxylation, an ...
... Neonicotinoid insecticides are neurotoxicants that cause serious environmental pollution and ecosystem risks. In the present study, a nitenpyram-degrading bacterium, Rhodococcus ruber CGMCC 17550, was isolated from a nitenpyram production sewage treatment tank. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis revealed R. ruber degraded nitenpyram via a novel hydroxylation pathway to form three dif ...
acute toxicity; carbon nitride; catalysts; electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; free radicals; graphene oxide; hydroxylation; iron; irradiation; liquid chromatography; oxidation; pH; polymers; remediation; superoxide anion; tandem mass spectrometry; toxic substances; trimethoprim
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... Fe-doped g-C₃N₄ / graphene (rGO) composites were investigated as catalysts for the activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) to degrade Trimethoprim (TMP) under visible light irradiation. The rapid recombination of photogenerated electron-hole pairs in g-C₃N₄ may be suppressed by doping with Fe and incorporating rGO. The TMP degradation efficiency using 0.2% Fe-g-C₃N₄/2 wt% rGO/PMS was 3.8 times than ...
... Unique properties of ionic liquids make them green alternatives for conventional volatile organic compounds. Due to increased production and the high stability of these substances, they could be classified as persistent pollutants and could break through classical treatment systems into natural waters. A preliminary ionic liquid hydrolysis study demonstrated a pH dependent degradation profile with ...
activated sludge; biotransformation; carbon; chemical bonding; chemical structure; hydroxylation; immunosuppression; ions; liquid chromatography; methotrexate
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... This study describes the biotransformation of cytostatic and immunosuppressive pharmaceutical methotrexate. Its susceptibility to microbiological breakdown was studied in a batch biotransformation system, in presence or absence of carbon source and at two activated sludge concentrations. The primary focus of the present study are methotrexate biotransformation products, which were tentatively iden ...
bacteria; biochemical pathways; computer software; emodin; esterification; humans; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; metabolism; metabolites; methylation; oxidation; tandem mass spectrometry
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... This study aimed to investigate the metabolism of anthraquinones, including chrysophanol (1), rhein (2), aloe-emodin (3), emodin (4), sennoside A (5) and sennoside B (6), by mixed human fecal bacteria to clarify the relationship between their chemical structural characteristics and intestinal metabolism. Six parent compounds were incubated with mixed human fecal bacteria in vitro to study the meta ...
... A liquid chromatography quadruple time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC–QqTOF-MS/MS) method was developed for simultaneous quantitative analysis of ibuprofen (IBU), 1- and 2-hydroxyibuprofen (1-OH IBU and 2-OH IBU), and carboxyibuprofen (CBX IBU) while preserving the ability of the instrument to get precursor and product ion mass spectra of non-target compounds. The trigger was the precursor ions r ...
... Great advances in lipidomics during the last years have opened the door to a broader knowledge of oxygenated lipids. These substances are derived either from the inclusion of previously hydroxylated fatty acids in the lipid structure of sphingolipids and acyl-L-carnitines, or by enzymatic and non-enzymatic modifications (oxidized lipids) of glycerophospholipids (including cardiolipins), cholestery ...
... We have investigated the metabolic profile of N-ethyl heptedrone, a new designer synthetic stimulant drug, by using data independent acquisition mass spectrometry. Phase I and phase II metabolism was studied by in vitro models, followed by liquid-chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, to characterize and pre-select the most diagnostic markers of intake. N-ethyl heptedrone was incubated in th ...
... This study investigated the reaction kinetics and the transformation by-products of acebutolol during aqueous chlorination. Acebutolol is one of the commonly used β-blockers for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. It has been frequently detected in the aquatic environment. In the kinetics study, the second-order rate constant for the reaction between acebutolol and chlorine (k ₐₚₚ) was deter ...
... Mefenamic acid (Mfe) is one of the most frequently detected nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the environment. This study investigated the kinetics and the transformation by-products of Mfe during aqueous chlorination. The potential ecotoxicity of the transformation by-products was also evaluated. In the kinetic study, the second-order rate constant (kₐₚₚ) for the reaction between Mfe and fr ...
... Among the various pharmaceutical pollutants, diclofenac sodium (DFS), a widely prescribed non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug is detected in the aquatic environment at concentrations which can be harmful to living organisms. Present study illustrates the isolation and characterization of strain Klebsiella pneumoniae WAH1 from activated sludge and its ability to degrade DFS as sole source of carbon ...
Daphnia magna; Pimephales promelas; chemical structure; computer software; ecotoxicology; half life; hydroxylation; irradiation; leaves; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; photolysis; quinoxyfen; river water; silicone; soil; solar radiation; wastewater; wavelengths
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... Quinoxyfen has been recently identified as a priority hazardous substance in the field of the European water policy. In this work, its fate in aqueous samples and solid supports under UV and solar radiation is investigated. Diverse degradation experiments were carried out, at lab scale, using spiked aliquots of different aqueous matrices (ultrapure, treated wastewater and river water) irradiated a ...
... The suitability of bulk silicone as support to follow the degradation of chemical compounds under environmental conditions and UV radiation is illustrated selecting three fungicides (fenhexamid, FEN; triadimenol, TRI and difenoconazole, DIF) as model compounds. These precursor species were first absorbed in silicone supports (10 mm length × 2 mm i.d. and 0.5 mm thickness) and then kept outdoors fo ...
... This study focused on the biodegradation of an azo dye (Acid Red 14, AR14) in two anaerobic–aerobic sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) treating synthetic textile wastewater, operated with aerobic granular sludge under different hydrodynamic regimens. The aim was to investigate the fate of the anaerobic AR14 breakdown products (aromatic amines) during the SBRs’ aerobic reaction phase. Specifically, l ...
Rim Mtibaà; Abdellah Ezzanad; Elisabet Aranda; Clementina Pozo; Bouthaina Ghariani; Javier Moraga; Moncef Nasri; Jesús Manuel Cantoral; Carlos Garrido; Tahar Mechichi
... Research on the biodegradation of emerging pollutants is gained great focus regarding their detrimental effects on the environment and humans. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the ability of the ascomycetes Thielavia sp HJ22 to remove the phenolic xenobiotics nonylphenol (NP), 4-tert-octylphenol (4-tert-OP) and 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP). The strain showed efficient degradation ...