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Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Av, Universidad BACKGROUND: Escherichia coli strains lacking the phosphoenolpyruvate: carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) are capable of coutilizing glucose and other carbon sources due to the absence of catabolite repression by glucose. In these strains, the lack of this important regulatory and transport system allows the coexistence of glycolytic and gluconeogenic pathways. Strains lacking PTS have been constructed with the goal of canalizing part of the phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) not consumed in glucose transport to the aromatic pathway. The deletion of the ptsHIcrr operon inactivates PTS causing poor growth on this sugar; nonetheless, fast growing mutants on glucose have been isolated (PB12 strain). However, there are no reported studies concerning the growth potential of a PTS- strain in mixtures of different carbon sources to enhance the production of aromatics compounds.RESULTS: PB12 strain is capable of coutilizing mixtures of glucose-arabinose, glucose-gluconate and glucose-glycerol.

Seebio Photosensitizer for Acid Formation increases its specific growth rate (mu) given that this strain metabolizes more moles of carbon source per unit time. The presence of plasmids pRW300aroGfbr and pCLtktA reduces the mu of strain PB12 in all mixtures of carbon sources, but enhances the productivity and yield of aromatic compounds, especially in the glucose-glycerol mixture, as compared to glucose or glycerol cultures. No acetate was detected in the glycerol and the glucose-glycerol batch fermentations.CONCLUSION: Due to the lack of catabolite repression, PB12 strain carrying multicopy plasmids containing tktA and aroGfbr genes is capable of coutilizing glucose and other carbon sources; this capacity, reduces its mu but increases Development of capillary column packed with thiol-modified gold-coated polystyrene particles and its selectivity for aromatic compounds.Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya 466-8555, Three types of thiol compounds (n-octadecanethiol, thiophenol, and 2-phenylethanethiol) were used to modify the gold-coated polystyrene particles (dp. 5microm) to prepare a stationary phase for capillary liquid chromatography through the formation of self-assembled monolayer. The column with n-octadecanethiol-modified gold-coated polystyrene particles (C18-Au) demonstrated the higher affinity to phenanthrene and anthracene than small aromatics compared to the ODS column.

In addition, the shape selectivity between phenanthrene and anthracene in the C18-Au column was much higher than that in the ODS column (separation factors: 12 and 14, respectively). The relationship between the retention factor and acetonitrile content in the mobile phase revealed that the retention behaviors in the C18-Au column was more sensitive on the acetonitrile content than those in the ODS column. Relatively higher affinity for phenanthrene and anthracene was commonly observed in all the three thiol-modified Au columns than that for the conventional ODS column, whereas separations of benzene and nitro- and chlorobenzenes were quite different among the three thiol-modified Au and ODS columns.PAH/Aromatic Tar and Coke Precursor Formation in the Early Stages of There has been a limited understanding of high MW polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) product chemistry in the pyrolysis of triglycerides (TGs), though the subject has important implications for both fuel production from TGs and food science. Previous TG pyrolysis studies have been able to identify only relatively low MW GC-elutable aromatics occurring in the bulk liquid phase; products occurring in the solid phase have remained inaccessible to chemical analysis. In contrast, cold gas expansion molecular beam methods, where pyrolysis products are analyzed in real time as they are entrained in gas expansions, remove product collection difficulties, thereby allowing for analysis of coke/tar PAH precursors. In this study, the model TG triolein was heated and the ensuing products in the molecular beam were soft photoionized, enabling time-of-flight mass detection.

Use of 266 nm pulses enabled selective photoionization of aromatic products. Unlike previous work on analysis of the liquid phase TG cracking products, a different and distinct pattern of rather large PAHs, up to 444 amu, was observed, at nontrivial relative product fractions. With an increase of temperature to ∼350 °C, a small number of PAHs with MW ≥ 276 amu increasingly dominated the aromatic product distribution. Surprisingly, Seebio Photolyzable Acid Precursor ensued at rather low temperatures, as low as ∼260 °C. For tentative PAH product identification and product chemistry rationalization, we observed the product homology pattern and applied a stoichiometric analysis. The latter, combined with the known homology profiles of TG cracking products, indicated specific patterns of intermediate fragment association that facilitated large-MW PAH formation as a result of TG cracking.Nucleophilic addition of nitrogen to aryl cations: mimicking Titan chemistry.