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Dark Iron-Catalyzed Reactions In Acidic And Viscous Aerosol Systems Efficiently Form Secondary Brown Carbon, Hind A. Al-Abadleh, Md Sohel Rana, Wisam Mohammed, Marcelo I. Guzman Dec 2020

Dark Iron-Catalyzed Reactions In Acidic And Viscous Aerosol Systems Efficiently Form Secondary Brown Carbon, Hind A. Al-Abadleh, Md Sohel Rana, Wisam Mohammed, Marcelo I. Guzman

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Iron-driven secondary brown carbon formation reactions from water-soluble organics in cloud droplets and aerosols create insoluble and soluble products of emerging atmospheric importance. This work shows, for the first time, results on dark iron-catalyzed polymerization of catechol forming insoluble black polycatechol particles and colored water-soluble oligomers under conditions characteristic of viscous multicomponent aerosol systems with relatively high ionic strength (I = 1–12 m) and acidic pH (∼2). These systems contain ammonium sulfate (AS)/nitrate (AN) and C3–C5 dicarboxylic acids, namely, malonic, malic, succinic, and glutaric acids. Using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and ultra high pressure liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS), …


Tetrahymena Thermophila And Candida Albicans Group I Intron-Derived Ribozymes Can Catalyze The Trans-Excision-Splicing Reaction, P. Patrick Dotson Ii, Ashley K. Johnson, Stephen M. Testa Sep 2008

Tetrahymena Thermophila And Candida Albicans Group I Intron-Derived Ribozymes Can Catalyze The Trans-Excision-Splicing Reaction, P. Patrick Dotson Ii, Ashley K. Johnson, Stephen M. Testa

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Group I intron-derived ribozymes can catalyze a variety of non-native reactions. For the trans-excision-splicing (TES) reaction, an intron-derived ribozyme from the opportunistic pathogen Pneumocystis carinii catalyzes the excision of a predefined region from within an RNA substrate with subsequent ligation of the flanking regions. To establish TES as a general ribozyme-mediated reaction, intron-derived ribozymes from Tetrahymena thermophila and Candida albicans, which are similar to but not the same as that from Pneumocystis, were investigated for their propensity to catalyze the TES reaction. We now report that the Tetrahymena and Candida ribozymes can catalyze the excision of a …