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... Fludioxonil is a post-harvest fungicide contained in effluents produced by fruit packaging plants, which should be treated prior to environmental dispersal. We developed and evaluated an immobilized cell bioreactor, operating under microaerophilic conditions and gradually reduced hydraulic retention times (HRTs) from 10 to 3.9 days, for the biotreatment of fludioxonil-rich wastewater. Fludioxonil ...
chemical species; esters; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; marine environment; marine sediments; organophosphorus compounds; phosphates; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry; toxicity
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... The present work aimed at the development of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method for comprehensive determination of twelve organophosphate (OP) triesters, five OP diesters and two hydroxylated degradation products in sediment. As the target compound possess a wide range of physicochemical properties, different LC-MS/MS conditions and sample preparation strategies wer ...
... Transformation studies of chlorinated paraffins (CPs) and the effects of CP transformation products on humans, biota and environment are rare. The focus here is on hydroxylation reactions. As for polyhalogenated persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in general, hydroxylation reactions convert lipophilic material to more polar compounds with increased mobility. We investigated the in-vitro transform ...
acetone; decontamination; environmental monitoring; ethyl acetate; fluorenes; gels; hexane; humans; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; liquid-liquid extraction; metabolites; methylene chloride; naphthalene; permeability; phenanthrenes; sodium hydroxide; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry; China
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... A method was developed for the simultaneous determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their hydroxylated metabolites (OH-PAHs) in human fingernails using liquid–liquid extraction and online purification. After surface decontamination by rinsing with acetone, the fingernails were digested with sodium hydroxide and subjected to liquid–liquid extraction with a mixture of n-hexane a ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
acetylation; aquatic environment; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; metabolism; pollution; sulfadiazine; sulfamethoxazole; sulfapyridine; tandem mass spectrometry; China
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... The transformation products of sulfonamides (SAs) have raised increasing environmental and health concerns in recent years, but information on their analysis and environmental fates remains limited. In this study, an analytical method using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MSMS) was optimized to simultaneously analyze 9 SA transformation products and 14 SAs in water samples. ...
... In vitro and in vivo experimental models, mainly based on cell cultures, animals, healthy humans and clinical trials, are useful approaches for identifying the main metabolic pathways. However, time, cost, and matrix complexity often hinder the success of these methods. In this study, we propose an alternative non-enzymatic method, using electrochemistry (EC) coupled to liquid chromatography (LC) ...
... Aliskiren was selected as a compound of potential concern among a suspect screening list of more than 40,000 substances on a basis of high occurrence, potential risk and the absence of information about its environmental fate.This study investigated the photoinduced degradation of aliskiren in river water samples spiked at trace levels exposed to simulated sunlight. A half-life time of 24 h was ob ...
algae; biphenyl; gas chromatography; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; pollution
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... Marine animals, plants or bacteria are a source of bioactive naturally-occurring halogenated compounds (NHCs) such as bromophenols (BPs), bromoanisoles (BAs) and hydroxylated or methoxylated analogues of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (HO-PBDEs, MeO-PBDEs) and bromobiphenyls (HO-BBs, MeO-BBs). This study applied a comprehensive screening approach using liquid chromatography high-resolution mass sp ...
bromination; computer software; environment; fabrics; flame retardants; human health; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; pollution; product life cycle; sewage treatment; sludge
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... Investigation of transformation products from novel flame retardants emitted throughout their life cycles is crucial for understanding and predicting environmental and human health risks posed by them during the material and product life cycle. Here, to understand more about the emission of TDBP-TAZTO to the environment, we investigated the presence of novel brominated triazine-based flame retarda ...
density functional theory; heterocyclic compounds; hydroxylation; irradiation; kinetics; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; nitrites; organic matter; photolysis; sulfamethazine; sulfamethizole; sulfamethoxazole; sulfapyridine
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... In this study, we systematically investigated the indirect photolysis of five SAs, i.e., sulfamethazine (SMZ), sulfamethoxazole (SMX), sulfathiazole (STZ), sulfapyridine (SPD), and sulfamethizole (SMT), under UV-A irradiation (365 nm) and mediated by nitrite (NO₂‾) at environmentally relevant concentrations (0.005–0.1 mM). The SAs that are resistant to direct photolysis can be effectively removed ...
... Tire and road wear particles (TRWPs) are one of the main sources of particulate traffic emissions, but measured data on TRWP contents in the environment are scarce. This study aims at identifying organic compounds suitable as quantitative markers for TRWPs by a tiered multistep selection process involving nontarget screening and subsequent identification by liquid-chromatography high-resolution ma ...
drugs; environment; environmental fate; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; oxidation; photocatalysis; photolysis; risk; river water; toxicity; wastewater treatment
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... Maprotiline was identified as a compound of potential interest further to a suspect screening test carried out for a list of more than 40,000 substances based on specific occurrence, hazard and risk indicators. Despite the high frequency of appearance of this drug in wastewater treatment stations, his environmental fate is still unknown. Herein, we investigated for the first time the maprotiline d ...
Internet; acetonitrile; acetylcysteine; acidification; acrolein; cyclophosphamide; cytochrome P-450; cytotoxicity; databases; drug therapy; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; enzymes; ethics; formic acid; hematuria; humans; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; metabolites; pharmacodynamics; pharmacokinetics; polymerase chain reaction; risk; systematic review; tandem mass spectrometry; urine; Indonesia
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... Cyclophosphamide (CPA) is a cytotoxic prodrug that needs to be metabolized by cytochrome P450 enzymes, like CYP2B6. Unfortunately, CYP2B6 is a very polymorphic enzyme and can cause a change in 3-hydroxypropyl mercapturic acid (3-HPMA), the most found CYP metabolite in urine levels. Change in 3-HPMA levels can also indicate the level change in its precursor, acrolein, which is responsible for the h ...
... Short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) are listed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) under the Stockholm Convention. Such substances are toxic, bioaccumulating, transported over long distances and degrade slowly in the environment. Certain bacterial strains of the Sphingomonadacea family are able to degrade POPs, such as hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) and hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs). Th ...
abacavir; aquatic environment; chemical species; environmental health; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolites; pharmacokinetics; sewage treatment; wastewater; wastewater treatment; South Africa
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... The presence of pharmaceutical compounds in the aquatic environment is a significant environmental health concern, which is exacerbated by recent evidence of the contribution of drug metabolites to the overall pharmaceutical load. In light of a recent report of the occurrence of metabolites of antiretroviral drugs (ARVDs) in wastewater, we investigate in the present work the occurrence of further ...
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 ...
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 ...
... Filamentous fungi Trichoderma have been able to efficiently degrade fluoroquinolone antibiotics namely ciprofloxacin (CIP) and ofloxacin (OFL) as well as the fungicide climbazole (CLB) that are persistent in conventional activated sludge processes. All targeted compounds were biotransformed by whole cells of Trichoderma spp., exactly T. harzanium and T. asperellum, and biosorption played a limited ...
... 4-t-octylphenol (4-t-OP), a well-known endocrine disrupting compound, is frequently found in various environmental compartments at levels that may cause adverse effects to the ecosystem and public health. To date, most of the studies that investigate microbial transformations of 4-t-OP have focused on the process mediated by bacteria, ligninolytic fungi, or microbial consortia. There is no report ...
... Suvorexant (Belsomra®) is a sedative hypnotic that was approved for use in 2015. It has a novel mechanism of action and was the first dual orexin receptor antagonist (DORA) to be approved for the treatment of sleep disorders. Sedative hypnotics often feature prominently in forensic investigations such as impaired driving and drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) cases. As such, suvorexant is a dr ...
... Triphenyl phosphate (TPHP), one of the organophosphate flame retardants, has been widely used in manufacturing, thereby causing a gradual increase in TPHP concentrations in aquatic environments. However, the information on the biotransformation mechanism of TPHP in invertebrates is lacking. The study identified the biotransformation products of TPHP in Daphnia magna, which showed particularly high ...
... Salinity‐induced metabolic, ionic, and transcript modifications in plants have routinely been studied using whole plant tissues, which do not provide information on spatial tissue responses. The aim of this study was to assess the changes in the lipid profiles in a spatial manner and to quantify the changes in the elemental composition in roots of seedlings of four barley cultivars before and afte ...
... Greater insights on the degradation pathways and intermediates formed during the oxidation of organics can be achieved by more suitable and compatible instrumentation. In our research, we sought to explore the relative advantages of the liquid chromatography coupled to a time of flight mass spectrometer (LCMS-TOF) technique for the comparative time-based degradation intermediates and pathways of 4 ...
... Hydroxylation activity at the 6β-position of steroid hormones (testosterone, progesterone, and cortisol) by human cytochromes P450 (CYP) 3A4, polymorphic CYP3A5, and fetal CYP3A7 were compared to understand the catalytic properties of the major forms of human CYP3A subfamily. Testosterone, progesterone, and cortisol 6β-hydroxylation activities of recombinant CYP3A4, CYP3A5, and CYP3A7 were determi ...
... Flutamide (FLUT) is a non-steroidal drug mainly used in the treatment of prostate cancer and has been detected in the aquatic environment at ng L⁻¹ levels. The environmental fate and effects of FLUT have not yet been studied. Conventional treatment technologies fail to completely remove pharmaceuticals, so the solar photo-Fenton process (SPF) has been proposed as an alternative. In this study, the ...
adverse effects; aldehydes; bioavailability; biochemical pathways; enzyme inhibitors; epidermal growth factor receptors; glutathione; hydroxylation; ions; liquid chromatography; liver microsomes; lung neoplasms; metabolites; metastasis; patients; piperazine; potassium cyanide; quinones; rats; tandem mass spectrometry; South Korea
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... Olmutinib (Olita™) is an orally bioavailable third generation epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Olmutinib was approved in South Korea in May 2016 for the treatment of patients suffering from locally advanced or metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor T790M mutation‐positive non‐small cell lung cancer. Reactive olmutinib intermediates may be responsible for the severe ...
biotransformation; breast neoplasms; carcinogenesis; derivatization; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; estrogens; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; metabolism; metabolites; methylation; monitoring; nutritional support; patients; risk; solid phase extraction; steroid hormones; sulfates; tandem mass spectrometry; urine; water solubility
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... An imbalance in the estrogen metabolism has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer development. Evaluation of the estrogen biotransformation capacity requires monitoring of various estrogen metabolites. Up to now, only some estrogen metabolites could be measured in urine. However, in order to offer tailor made nutritional support or therapies, a complete estrogen metabolite profil ...
... Diclofenac (DCF) exists extensively in sewage treatment plant effluent, and it is one of the most reported environmental pharmaceutical contaminants. In this work, the photocatalytic degradation of DCF by titanium dioxide (TiO₂) in pure water under visible light and the influence of humic acids (HA) (as a kind of dissolved organic matter (DOM), phosphate and ferrous ion (Fe²⁺)) were investigated. ...
... This study aimed to investigate the effects of nitrate on the ultraviolet (UV) treatment of simulated washing wastes containing Trion X-100 (TX-100) surfactant and 4,4′-dibromodiphenyl ether (BDE-15) pollutant. The presence of nitrate accelerated the photodegradation of BDE-15 and TX-100, because they reacted with reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced from conversion between nitrate and nitrite. ...
... The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the prototypes and oxidation products of alkaloids with the use of an online electrochemistry/quadrupole time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry system. The metabolism of oxidative phase I and II was simulated in an electrochemical reaction cell. The metabolic processes for coptisine and jatrorrhizine were simulated in a thin‐layer cell fitted with ...
adenocarcinoma; collagen; extracellular matrix; fibrosis; hydroxylation; image analysis; liquid chromatography; lungs; men; metastasis; microarray technology; patients; peptides; post-translational modification; principal component analysis; proline; proteomics; resection; tandem mass spectrometry; tissues; variance; women
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... Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is the second most common cancer, affecting both men and women. Fibrosis is a hallmark of LUAD occurring throughout progression with excess production of extracellular matrix (ECM) components that lead to metastatic cell processes. Understanding the ECM cues that drive LUAD progression has been limited due to a lack of tools that can access and report on ECM components w ...
... Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) electrogenerated via two-electron oxygen reduction reaction at cathode plays an important role in electrochemical advanced oxidation processes for organic pollutants removal from wastewater. Herein, multi-walled carbon nanotubes and carbon black co-modified graphite felt electrode (MWCNTs-CB/GF) was prepared as an efficient cathode for H₂O₂ electrogeneration and amoxicilli ...
batch systems; gelatin; hydrocolloids; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; peptides; proline; swine; tandem mass spectrometry; temperature
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... The extraction process significantly affects the characteristics and identification of gelatins. Here, three porcine gelatins were extracted using multi-stage batch processing by three extraction stages with temperatures of 50, 70, and 90 °C, respectively. Liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry was used to investigate differences in the characteristic tryptic peptides derived from ...
... Infigratinib (INF) is a novel, small molecule that is orally administered to inhibit human fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs), which are a family of receptor tyrosine kinases that may be upregulated in different tumor cell types. On 6 January 2020, the FDA granted fast track designation to INF for first-line treatment of cholangiocarcinoma. Prediction of susceptible sites of metabolism and ...
chlorpyrifos; diazinon; equipment; hydrolysis; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; oxidation; ozonation; ozone; separation; tandem mass spectrometry; thiophosphate
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... The degradation of two organophosphates, chlorpyrifos and diazinon, in water using microplasma equipment to produce ozone and the identification of their products were studied by using liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry. The organophosphates gradually decreased with time and were completely removed after 10 min, and diazinon was degraded at a relatively fast rate compared to chlorpyrifos. The ...
... Monoterpene indole alkaloids (MIAs) in medicinal plants remain uncharacterized owing to their complicated structure by metabolomics using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) despite their pharmaceutical importance. We demonstrate an untargeted metabolome analysis with ¹⁵nitrogen (N) labeling to characterize MIAs having an indolic skeleton in the flowers, leaves, petioles, ste ...
Eleni Evgenidou; Anna Ofrydopoulou; Neda Malesic-Eleftheriadou; Christina Nannou; Nina Maria Ainali; Evi Christodoulou; Dimitrios N. Bikiaris; George Z. Kyzas; Dimitra A. Lambropoulou
... The photocatalytic activity of two bio-based polymer photocatalysts [poly(ethylene terephthalate)-TiO₂ (PET-TiO₂) and poly(L-lactic acid)-graphene oxide-TiO₂ (PLLA-GO-TiO₂)] towards Tamoxifen (TAM), Cyclophosphamide (CP), Cytarabine (CYT) and 5-Fluorouracil (5-FLU) removal was explored and compared. The highest photocatalytic activity for the degradation of the cytostatic drugs was accomplished by ...
benzophenones; cetyltrimethylammonium bromide; chemical bonding; cleavage (chemistry); cobalt; copper; copper nanoparticles; density functional theory; hot water treatment; hydroxyl radicals; hydroxylation; ions; leaching; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; nanosheets; sulfates
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... A series of CuCo₂O₄ composite spinels with an interconnected meso-macroporous nanosheet morphology were synthesized using the hydrothermal method and subsequent calcination treatment to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for benzophenone-4 (BP-4) degradation. As-prepared CuCo₂O₄ composite spinels, especially CuCo-H3 prepared by adding cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, showed superior reactivity for PM ...
... In this study, a novel peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation method, which combines a solid waste (i.e., red mud, RM) and a reducing agent (i.e., hydroxylamine, HA), for the oxidative degradation of fluoroquinolones (FQs; i.e., flumequine (FLU) and ciprofloxacin (CIP)) in hospital wastewater (HW) was developed. The addition of HA into the PMS/RM suspension significantly enhanced FLU removal, owing to ...
cyprodinil; food contamination; fungicide residues; glycosylation; grapes; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; metabolites; pyrimethanil; red wines; solid phase extraction; tandem mass spectrometry; white wines; winemaking
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... The coexistence of the anilinopyrimidine fungicides pyrimethanil (PYR) and cyprodinil (CYP), and suspected metabolites in wine samples was investigated by liquid chromatography (LC) with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), based on triple quadrupole (QqQ) and quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) MS instruments. For the first time, quantitative data obtained after solid-phase extraction (SPE) of wine sam ...
... Sphingomyelins (SMs) are an essential class of lipids widely existing in different organisms. The sphingoid base and N-acyl chain are two building blocks which can undergo different types of modifications during lipogenesis, including desaturation, hydroxylation, and methyl branching. Current lipidomic analysis methods cannot provide detailed information on these structural motifs. Herein, we deve ...
... In this study, a combined targeted/untargeted UHPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS/MS method for the targeted quantitative analysis of the primary platelet lipid mediators thromboxane B2 (TXB2), 12S-hydroxy-5Z,8E,10E-heptadecatrienoic acid (HHT) and its oxidation product 12-keto-5Z,8E,10E-heptadecatrienoic acid (KHT) was developed, which allowed simultaneous untargeted profiling for the detection of other lipid biom ...
... Pyrrolidinophenones (PPs) are synthetic cathinones containing a pyrrolidine ring that are used recreationally worldwide. Recently, many studies on the metabolism and cytotoxicity of PPs have been published. Here, we focus on new designer drug containing an indan skeleton, 1-(2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-5-yl)-2-(pyrrolidine-1-yl)butan-1-one (5-PPDI), because there have been no reports to date regarding th ...
alcohols; correlation; degradation; demethylation; environment; enzyme activity; free radicals; hydrochemistry; hydroxylation; liquid chromatography; oxidation; pH; peroxidase; pollutants; sewage treatment; spectrometers; tandem mass spectrometry; tetracycline; wastewater treatment; water temperature
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... The threat of antibiotics in the environment causing antibiotics resistance is a global health concern. Enzymes catalyze pollutant transformations, and how commercially available enzymes like horseradish peroxidase (HRP), with or without a redox mediator, may be used to degrade antibiotics in water treatment is of great interest. This work demonstrates tetracycline transformation by HRP, and how i ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...