• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.211-214
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• 2007

A solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry utilizing $^{13}C$-formate as an internal standard for the determination of formate was proved to be applicable as a reliable quantitative method in several plants. We were the first to discover that trees contain larger pool sizes of formate than herbs. Our data also showed that the formate level of the leaves increased after the methanol-spraying, suggesting that methanol oxidation could convert formaldehyde into formate. In addition, drought and chilling led to the increase of endogenous formate in Arabidospsis thaliana. These results confirmed that formate is a universal stress signal in plants.

• Toxicological Research
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.333-342
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• 2017

Ethyl formate, a volatile solvent, has insecticidal and fungicidal properties and is suggested as a potential fumigant for stored crop and fruit. Its primary contact route is through the respiratory tract; however, reliable repeated toxicological studies focusing on the inhalation route have not been published to date. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the safety of a 90-day repeated inhalation exposure in rats. Forty male and 40 female rats were exposed to ethyl formate vapor via inhalation at concentrations of 0, 66, 330, and 1,320 ppm for 6 hr/day, 5 days a week for 13 weeks. Clinical signs, body weights, food consumption, urinalysis, hematologic parameters, serum chemistry measurements, organ weights, necropsy, and histopathological findings were compared between the control and ethyl formate-exposed groups. Locomotor activity decreased during exposure and recovered afterward in male and female rats exposed to 1,320 ppm ethyl formate. Body weight and food consumption continuously decreased in both sexes exposed to 1,320 ppm ethyl formate from week 1 or 3 compared with the control values. The increases in adrenal weight and decreases in thymus weight were noted in both sexes exposed to ethyl formate at 1,320 ppm. Degeneration, squamous metaplasia of olfactory epithelium in the nasopharyngeal tissue, or both were noted in the male and female rats at 1,320 ppm and female rats at 330 ppm ethyl formate. Taken together, our results indicate that ethyl formate-induced changes were not observed in male and female rats at 330 and 66 ppm, respectively. This indicates that exposure to ethyl formate at concentrations below 66 ppm for 90 days is relatively safe in rats. This is the first report of a full-scale repeated inhalation toxicity assessment in rats and could contribute to controlling occupational environmental hazards related to ethyl formate.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.719-721
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• 2016

Formate has been considered as an environmentally sustainable feedstock that can be used to accelerate the production of valuable chemicals. This study presents brief results of the formatotrophic production of Poly-${\beta}$-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) by Methylobacterium sp. To evaluate the production of PHB, five species of Methylobacteria were tested using formate as the sole carbon and energy source. Methylobacterium chloromethanicum CM4 exhibited the highest productivity of PHB, which showed 1.72 g/L PHB production, 32.4% PHB content, and 0.027 g-PHB/g-formate PHB yield. These results could be used for the formatotrophic production of PHB with the concurrent reduction of $CO_2$ to formate.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.189-192
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• 2011

Much interest has been recently focused on the production of large quantities of hydrogen, due to its potential importance in our economy and needs in the petroleum and chemical industries. Formate dehydrogenase H (FDH-H) from Escherichia coli containing selenocysteine that oxidizes formate to carbon dioxide with the release of hydrogen is a component of the anaerobic formate hydrogen-lyase complex of E. coli. To make full use of FDH-H, we need effective expression condition. In this approach, we investigated the effect of pH on FDH-H stability and observed the effect of selenite and formate concentration on the activity of FDH-H. Additionally, coexpression of selenocysteine insertion genes were tried to improve the expression of FDH-H. The highest level of FDH-H expression was achieved by coexpression of selenocysteine insertion genes (pSUABC) as well as by the addition of $10\;{\mu}M$ selenite and 10 mM formate. At this optimized condition, a 2.6 fold elevation of expression of FDH-H was achieved.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.470-473
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• 2006

생물학적 수소생산을 위해 토양으로부터 새로운 균주인 Enterobacter asburiae SNU-1이 분리되었다 이 균주의 경우 다른 균주와는 달리 미생물 생장과 수소생산 phase가 분리되는 특징을 가지고 있다. 이러한 정지기에서의 수소생산은 미생물 내에 존재하는 formate hydrogen lyase를 사응하여 formate 분해에 의해 일어난다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 미생물 생장 phase에서 formate hydrogen lyase가 발현된 미생물을 얻고 이를 formate만 있는 배지에서 수소생산 가능성에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 앞으로 formate분해를 위한 조건을 최적화한다면 높은 수소생산성을 나타낼 것이라 기대된다. 또한, 이는 formate로부터 미생물촉매를 이용하여 수소를 생산하고 이를 연료전지로 공급하는 생물학적 reformer로써의 이용 가능성을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.86-91
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• 2004

Effect of potassium formate, glycine and oxalic acid in a sulfate solution on the deposit composition and current efficiency of trivalent chromium plating was studied. The trivalent chromium layers prepared by solutions with potassium formate, glycine and oxalic acid contain a few carbon inside. The solutions containing potassium formate, glycine and oxalic acid are relatively stable with pH change. The solution with the potassium formate shows 6-30％ current efficiency with current density, whereas, the solutions with oxalic acid and glycine show about 5％ current efficiency, respectively. The improved current efficiency is related to enough supply of chromium ions to the electrode due to the increase of pH at the front of electrode.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.191.2-191.2
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• 2014

Cu/ZnO/$Al_2O_3$ is widely used methanol synthesis catalyst at elevated pressures P (50 to 100 bar) and temperatures T (473 to 573 K) using $CO_2$, CO, $H_2$ syngas mixture. Although Cu step and planar defects have been regarded as active sites in this catalyst, detailed $CO_2$ hydrogenation procedure has been still unknown and debated as well as initial intermediate. In this study, we investigated the mechanism of $CO_2$ hydrogenation on Cu(111) model surface at P (1 bar) and T (298 to 450 K) using reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS). Two distinct formates by hydrogenation of $CO_2$, on step and on terrace, show different behavior with elevating temperature. The peak intensity of on step formate was continuously decreased above 360 K up to 450K in contrast to the increase of on terrace formate. These phenomena are strong possibilities that the formate is initial intermediate and is desorbed by hydrogenation reaction because thermal desorption temperature of formate (~470 K) is much higher than desorption of on step formate. And the formate production peak of on step site was weakly correlated with CO formation.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.1399-1402
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• 2011

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.192-195
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• 2003

As a part of our research project for in-situ bioremediation of nitrate contaminated. groundwater, screening studies to determine an effective electron donor (EO) and/or carbon source (CS) such as acetate, ethanol, formate, fumarate, lactate, and propionate were conducted. To evaluate the feasibility for the biological degradation of nitrate, soil microcosm studies using nitrate-contaminated soil and groundwater were performed. The nitrate removal percentage in the order from the highest to the lowest was: formate, fumarate, and ethanol > lactate > propionate. Essentially no nitrate consumption was observed In acetate-fed microcosms. The order of nitrate removal rate from the highest to lowest was fumarate, formate, lactate, ethanol, and propionate. These results suggest that fumarate and formate are promising EDs/CSs for in-situ bioremediation of nitrate - contaminated oxygenated groundwater.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05b
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• pp.929-936
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• 1995

LOMI 제염제의 전기화학적 제조공정 중 전하운반체의 역할 및 V$^{3+}$ 이온의 침전현상을 방지하기 위하여 첨가되는 과량의 formic acid 는 제염제 제조시에는 중요한 역할을 하지만 제염 폐기물의 양을 증가시키는 요인이 되기도 한다. EPRI 공정에서는 formate : V 의 비율(FVR)이 10:1 인 조건에서 V$^{2+}$-formate 를 제조한 후 음이온 교환 수지를 이용하여 과량의 formate 를 제거하는 공정을 사용한다. 이러한 방법으로 줄일 수 있는 FVR의 한계가 약 2.5 : 1 이다. 본 연구에서는 제염제 중 formate 의 양을 더욱 줄일 수 있는 방법으로써 V$^{2+}$-formate 제조시 용액 중에 picolinic acid를 미리 첨가하는 영향을 조사하였다. V$^{2+}$ 이온의 농도가 0.1 M 일 때 FVR 를 1.5:1 까지도 줄일 수 있음을 확인하였다.