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Degradation and Preservation of Organic Matter in Marine Sediments
Organic matter that is deposited in aquatic sediments is subject to an intense diagenetic reactor that determines how much organic carbon is...
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Poly(mercaptoimidazolyl)borate Complexes of Cadmium and Mercury
The coordination chemistry of bis- and tris(mercaptoimidazolyl)borate ligands with both main-group and transition metals is rapidly expanding....
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Mercury Removal from Water
Mercury pollution in water is a serious threat to natural ecosystems. Various methods and technologies are in use to remove mercury from the...
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The Material-Independent Signatures of Life.Forensic Tools of Astrobiology
Biological life is intimately related to the geochemical conditions on Earth and is fit for this planet’s energy flux. It has often been suggested...
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The Early History of Bio-Information
In a general sense, the information level of a structure equals the minimum number of instructions needed to specify the structure (Orgel 1973). The...
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Assembling the Early Puzzle of Life
So far no theory, no approach, no set of formulas, and no blackboard scheme have been found satisfactory in explaining the origin of life. The...
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The Early History of Bioenergy
Energy is most commonly defined as the potential to do work. The maintenance of the living state requires a constant flow of energy through the...
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Self-Association of Phosphorylase Kinase under Molecular Crowding Conditions
Self-association of phosphorylase kinase (PhK) has been studied using analytical ultracentrifugation and dynamic light scattering under the...
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Analytical Ultracentrifuge for the Characterization of Detergent in Solution
We have characterized the hydrodynamic behaviour in H 2 O and D2O of two detergents, dodecyl-β-D-maltoside...
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Oligomerization of Hydroperoxide Lyase, a Novel P450 Enzyme in Plants
The oligomeric state of fatty acid hydroperoxide lyase (HPL), of molar mass ∼55 kDa is uncertain and it has been reported as a trimer or tetramer...
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Ab initio and Constrained Modeling of Phosphorylase
The joint use of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and hydrodynamic data permits biologically useful reconstructions of protein structures to be...
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Molecular Properties and Electrostatic Interactions of Linear Poly(allylamine hydrochloride) Chains
The efficiency of two azoinitiators in the polymerization of allylamine salts in water and organic solvents was studied comparatively....
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Analytical Ultracentrifugation Studies of the Influenza M2 Homotetramerization Equilibrium in Detergent Solutions
Though much progress has been made in the field of membrane protein folding, there is still much to learn about the association of transmembrane...
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Aggregation of Dibutyl Phthalate Molecules in Decalin Solutions Evidenced by Hydrodynamic and Optical Measurements
Hydrodynamic and optical investigations were performed on the binary dibutyl phthalate (DBP)-decalin liquid mixtures with the DBP content varying...
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Immobilization of Oligonucleotides for Biochemical Sensing by Self-Assembled Monolayers: Thiol-Organic Bonding on Gold and Silanization on Silica Surfaces
The covalent immobilization of biomolecules on surfaces is of great interest for many medical and bioanalytical applications. Currently, there is...
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Immobilization of Nucleic Acids Using Biotin-Strept(avidin) Systems
There are several advantages for using biotin-streptavidin/avidin (strept(avi-din)) systems to immobilize nucleic acids and other molecules. These...
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Immobilization of DNA on Microarrays
Microarrays are new analytical devices that allow the parallel and simultaneous detection of thousands of target compounds. Microarrays, also...
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Impedimetric Detection of DNA Hybridization: Towards Near-Patient DNA Diagnostics
Immobilization strategies for the attachment of nucleotide probes to both microarrays and microfabricated interdigitated electrodes differ to...
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Development of Technetium-99m and Rhenium-188 Radiopharmaceuticals Containing a Terminal Metal–Nitrido Multiple Bond for Diagnosis and Therapy
The chemistry of nitrido complexes of technetium has played an important role in the search of new Tc-99m radiopharmaceuticals and in providing...
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PAEs with Heteroaromatic Rings
This article reviews the synthesis and chemical properties of poly(aryleneethynylene)s, PAEs, consisting of sulfur-containing heteroaromatic rings...