Epoxidation Reaction of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons with H2O2 over Defect TS-1 Investigated by ONIOM Method:  Formation of Active Sites and Reaction Mechanisms

2007 ◽  
Vol 111 (8) ◽  
pp. 3433-3441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weerayuth Panyaburapa ◽  
Tanin Nanok ◽  
Jumras Limtrakul
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Selleck ◽  
Marcelo Monteiro Pedroso ◽  
Liam Wilson ◽  
Stephan Krco ◽  
Esmée Gianna Knaven ◽  
...  

AbstractGenes that confer antibiotic resistance can rapidly be disseminated from one microorganism to another by mobile genetic elements, thus transferring resistance to previously susceptible bacterial strains. The misuse of antibiotics in health care and agriculture has provided a powerful evolutionary pressure to accelerate the spread of resistance genes, including those encoding β-lactamases. These are enzymes that are highly efficient in inactivating most of the commonly used β-lactam antibiotics. However, genes that confer antibiotic resistance are not only associated with pathogenic microorganisms, but are also found in non-pathogenic (i.e. environmental) microorganisms. Two recent examples are metal-dependent β-lactamases (MBLs) from the marine organisms Novosphingobium pentaromativorans and Simiduia agarivorans. Previous studies have demonstrated that their β-lactamase activity is comparable to those of well-known MBLs from pathogenic sources (e.g. NDM-1, AIM-1) but that they also possess efficient lactonase activity, an activity associated with quorum sensing. Here, we probed the structure and mechanism of these two enzymes using crystallographic, spectroscopic and fast kinetics techniques. Despite highly conserved active sites both enzymes demonstrate significant variations in their reaction mechanisms, highlighting both the extraordinary ability of MBLs to adapt to changing environmental conditions and the rather promiscuous acceptance of diverse substrates by these enzymes.


RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (36) ◽  
pp. 21427-21453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hikaru Saito ◽  
Yasushi Sekine

This review examines the catalytic ethane dehydrogenation and dehydroaromatization in terms of characteristics of active sites and their reaction mechanisms.


Author(s):  
Ruidi Wang ◽  
Beibei Xv ◽  
Jiachen Wang ◽  
Xue Lu Wang ◽  
Yefeng Yao

Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4), the relationships between whose structural characteristics and the photocatalytic reaction mechanisms still remains unclarified at the molecular level, severely hinders the further development of this field....


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