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Biological conversion of methane to methanol through genetic reassembly of native catalytic domains
Methane monooxygenase (MMO), which exists in particulate (pMMO) or soluble forms (sMMO) in methanotrophic bacteria, is an industrially promising enzyme that catalyses oxidation of low-reactive methane and othe...
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Hemoglobin as a Diagnosing Molecule for Biological Effects of Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma
The studies with proteins are necessary to understand the biological effects of atmospheric pressure plasma (APP). Among proteins, those with transient metal ions play key roles in many biological events and t...
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Optical, electro-optic and optoelectronic properties of natural and chemically modified DNAs
This article reviews recent findings on the optical, electro-optic and optoelectronic properties of natural and modified DNAs. When the sodium (Na+) ions of DNA are replaced with long alkyl quaternary ammonium (Q
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Comparison of magnetic properties of DNA-cetyltrimethyl ammonium complex with those of natural DNA
We prepared the DNA-cetyltrimethyl ammonium complex, as well as the same complex intercalated with stable organic free radicals, and studied their magnetic properties by electron magnetic resonance (EMR) spect...
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Highly fluorescing solid DNA-cationic polyelectrolyte complexes prepared from a natural DNA and a poly(fluorenevinylene-alt-phenylene) bearing quaternary ammonium pendants
A fluorescing, copolymer (Q)-bearing, quaternary ammonium pendant was mixed with excess natural salmon sperm DNA with a molecular weight of 1.3×106 (2,000 base pairs) to afford highly fluorescing, complex mixture...