• 제목/요약/키워드: electron acceptors

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- Invited Review - Hydrogen production and hydrogen utilization in the rumen: key to mitigating enteric methane production

  • Roderick I. Mackie;Hyewon Kim;Na Kyung Kim;Isaac Cann
    • Animal Bioscience
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    • 제37권2_spc호
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    • pp.323-336
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    • 2024
  • Molecular hydrogen (H2) and formate (HCOO-) are metabolic end products of many primary fermenters in the rumen ecosystem. Both play a vital role in fermentation where they are electron sinks for individual microbes in an anaerobic environment that lacks external electron acceptors. If H2 and/or formate accumulate within the rumen, the ability of primary fermenters to regenerate electron carriers may be inhibited and microbial metabolism and growth disrupted. Consequently, H2- and/or formate-consuming microbes such as methanogens and possibly homoacetogens play a key role in maintaining the metabolic efficiency of primary fermenters. There is increasing interest in identifying approaches to manipulate the rumen ecosystem for the benefit of the host and the environment. As H2 and formate are important mediators of interspecies interactions, an understanding of their production and utilization could be a significant starting point for the development of successful interventions aimed at redirecting electron flow and reducing methane emissions. We conclude by discussing in brief ruminant methane mitigation approaches as a model to help understand the fate of H2 and formate in the rumen ecosystem.

II-VI 화합반도체소자의 열화현상 (The decay phenomenon of II-VI compound semiconductors)

  • 성영권
    • 전기의세계
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    • 제17권2호
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    • pp.16-26
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    • 1968
  • Cds is possible to add excess donors and to compensate partially using other group metals as acceptors. The impurities can ble incorporated either during crysta growth or by diffusion into a bulkcrystal. The addition of rimpurities leads also to the production of vacancies in a manner depending on the atmosphere surrounding the crystal during growth, during the diffusion process or using bulk. Cds of the mentioned above affects spectral sensitivity, speed of response, the variation on photocurrent, electron life time, and decay of photoconductivity with temperature and with intensity of illumination. In the work to be deseribed, these properties have been studied between liquid nitrogen and room temperature. In addition, the electron trap distribution has been correlated with speed of response, variation of photocurrent with temperature in various atmosphere. Four major trapping levels have been observed, and their identification with impurity and vacancy levels is discussed. And also the effects of lattice imperfections on the photoconductive properties CdS were investigated in detail.

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2-amino-3-[(E)-4-(diethylamino)-2-alkoxy-benzylideneamino]- fumaronitrile 유도체 ICT 화합물의 결정 구조

  • Kim, Byung-Soon;Matsumoto, Shinya;Son, Young-A
    • 한국염색가공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국염색가공학회 2011년도 제44차 학술발표회
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    • pp.62-62
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    • 2011
  • Intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) system has received great attentions due to their promising optoelectronic properties For the efficient ICT of the chromophore, their organic compound mainly consists of strong electron donors (e.g. $NR_2$ or OR groups) and acceptors (e.g. CN or $NO_2$ groups). According to the molecular design and synthesis, the ICT compounds can be extended in many application fields. In this study, we have synthesized ICT compounds having a strong electron acceptor and donor. These novel ICT compounds were easily synthesized by a previously described method with some modifications. Their single crystals were grown and their structures were solved and described in this presentation.

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Reduction of Azobenzene by Purified Bovine Liver Quinone Reductase

  • Kim, Kyung-Soon;Shin, Hae-Yong
    • BMB Reports
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    • 제33권4호
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    • pp.321-325
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    • 2000
  • Quinone reductase was purified to homogeneity from bovine liver by using ammonium sulfate fractionation, ionexchange chromatography, and gel filtration chromatography. The enzyme utilized either NADH or NADPH as the electron donor. The enzyme catalyzed the reduction of several quinones and other artificial electron acceptors. Furthermore, the enzyme catalyzed NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of azobenzene. The apparent Km for 1,4-benzoquinone and azobenzene was 1.64 mM and 0.524 mM, respectively. The reduction of azobenzene by quinone reductase was almost entirely inhibited by dicumarol or Cibacron blue 3GA, potent inhibitors of the mammalian quinone reductase. In the presence of 1.0${\mu}M$ Cibacron blue 3GA, azoreductase activity was lowered by 45%, and almost complete inhibition was seen above 2.0 ${\mu}M$ Cibacron blue 3GA.

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Purification and Properties of Quinone Reductase

  • 신해용;심승보;장미;박종옥;김경순
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국생물공학회 2000년도 추계학술발표대회 및 bio-venture fair
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    • pp.638-639
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    • 2000
  • Quinone reductase was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity from bovine liver by using ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion-exchange chromatography, and gel filtration chromatography. The enzyme utilized either NADH or NADPH as the electron donor. The optimum pH of the enzyme was pH 8.5, and the activity of the enzyme was greatly inhibited by $Cu^{2+}$ and $Hg^{2+}$ ions, dicumarol and cibacron blue 3GA. The enzyme catalyzed the reduction of several quinones and other artificial electron acceptors. Furthermore, the enzyme catalyzed NAD(P)H-dependent reduction of azobenzene or 4-nitroso-N,N-dimethylaniline. The apparent $K_m$ for 1,4-benzoquinone, azobenzene, and 4-nitroso-N,N-dimethylaniline was 1.64mM, 0.524mM and 0.225mM, respectively. The reduction of azobenzene or 4-nitroso-N,N-dimethylaniline by quinone reductase was strongly inhibited by dicumarol or cibacron blue 3GA, potent inhibitors of quinone reductase.

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Simulating Bioremediation of Uranium-Contaminated Aquifers

  • 왕수균
    • 한국지하수토양환경학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국지하수토양환경학회 2002년도 추계학술발표회
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    • pp.161-166
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    • 2002
  • Bioremediation of trace metals in groundwater may require the manipulation of redox conditions via the injection of a carbon source. To simulate the numerous biogeochemical processes that will occur during the bioremediation of trace-metal-contaminated aquifers, a reactive transport model has been developed. The model consists of a set of coupled mass balance equations, accounting for advection, hydrodynamic dispersion, and a kinetic formulation of the biological or chemical transformations affecting an organic substrate, electron acceptors, corresponding reduced species, and trace metal contaminants of interest, uranium in this study. The redox conditions of the domain are characterized by estimating the pE, based on the concentrations of the dominant terminal electron acceptor and its corresponding reduced specie. This pE and the concentrations of relevant species we then used by a modified version of MINTEQA2, which calculates the speciation/sorption and precipitation/dissolution of the species of interest under equilibrium conditions. Kinetics of precipitation/dissolution processes are described as being proportional to the difference between the actual and calculated equilibrium concentration.

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Distinct Mechanisms of DNA Sensing Based on N-Doped Carbon Nanotubes with Enhanced Conductance and Chemical Selectivity

  • Kim, Han Seul;Lee, Seung Jin;Kim, Yong-Hoon
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.415.1-415.1
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    • 2014
  • Carrying out first-principles calculations, we study N-doped capped carbon nanotube (CNT) electrodes applied to DNA sequencing. While we obtain for the face-on nucleobase junction configurations a conventional conductance ordering where the largest signal results from guanine according to its high highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level, we extract for the edge-on counterparts a distinct conductance ordering where the low-HOMO thymine provides the largest signal. The edge-on mode is shown to operate based on a novel molecular sensing mechanism that reflects the chemical connectivity between N-doped CNT caps that can act both as electron donors and electron acceptors and DNA functional groups that include the hyperconjugated thymine methyl group[1].

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PAO와 dPAO 입상슬러지의 형태학적 특성에 대한 비교 고찰 (A Comparative Study on the Morphological Characteristics of PAO and dPAO Granule)

  • 윤금희;윤주환
    • 한국물환경학회지
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    • 제33권3호
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    • pp.302-310
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    • 2017
  • The morphological characteristics of granules developing in anaerobic-anoxic (An-Ax) and anaerobic-aerobic (An-Ox) sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) were examined. The granules developed in the both SBRs after 200 days of laboratory operation. The average diameters of the granules were $2.2{\pm}1.7mm$ in the An-Ax SBR and $0.4{\pm}0.3mm$ in the An-Ox SBR. To determine the possible factors affecting morphology of granules a comparative analysis of various operating conditions from reference data indicated that the availability and type of electron acceptors is a key factor determining the granulation process and granular morphology.

Pseudomonas carboxydohydrogena에 의한 일산화탄소의 산화 (Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide by Pseudomonas carboxydohydrogena)

  • 김영민
    • 미생물학회지
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    • 제21권1호
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 1983
  • The stoichiometry between the consumption of CO and $O_2$ and the production of $CO_2(2CO+O_2{\rightarrow}2CO_2)$) showed that Pseudomonas carboxydohydrogena grows as a typical aerobic CO oxidizer with CO. The optimal concentration of CO for growth was found to be 30% in gas mixture with air. The initial buffer concentration of the culture medium did not affect the growth of this bacterium. P. carboxydohydrogena is an obligate aerobe and dose not use nitrate as a terminal electron acceptor. The CO dehydrogenase is an inducible and soluble enzyme. The reaction rate and stability were maximal at pH7.5, and the Arrhenius plot revealed an activation energy of 37.7kJ/mol (9.0 Kcal/mol). The crude enzyme used methylene blue, thionin, and toluylene blue as electron acceptors for the oxidation of CO to $Co_2$ under anaerobic conditions. It was found that water must be the source of the second oxygen atom for CO oxidation.

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Photoinduced Charge-Transfer Association of Tetracyanoquinodimethane with Aminobiphenyls

  • Kim, Yong-Hee;Jung, Sang-Don;Chung, Myung-Ae;Song, Ki-Dong;Cho, Dae-Won
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제29권5호
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    • pp.948-952
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    • 2008
  • The molecular association of acceptors with electron donors is studied in the highly-polar solvent $CH_3CN$. Tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) forms a stable charge-transfer complex with donor molecules such as 4- aminobiphenyl (4-AB), benzidine (BD) and 2-aminobiphenyl (2-AB) with high association constants. The complexes of TCNQ with 4-AB or BD show new absorption bands at around 800 and 500 nm, which can be identified as reduced $TCNQ^{{\bullet}-}$ and $TCNQ^{2-}$ species, respectively. These bands grow quickly upon photoirradiation, implying that the charge-transfer complexes are easily formed in an excited state. Conversely, a small spectral manifestation of the charge transfer was observed in the case of 2-AB complex. It is demonstrated that the structural orientation between the geminate ion pairs could play an important role in building a stable complex.