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Savoie M, Mattison A, Genge L, Nadeau J, Śliwińska-Wilczewska S, Berthold M, Omar NM, Prášil O, Cockshutt AM, Campbell DA. Prochlorococcus marinus responses to light and oxygen. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0307549. [PMID: 39038009 PMCID: PMC11262661 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0307549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 07/08/2024] [Indexed: 07/24/2024] Open
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Prochlorococcus marinus, the smallest picocyanobacterium, comprises multiple clades occupying distinct niches, currently across tropical and sub-tropical oligotrophic ocean regions, including Oxygen Minimum Zones. Ocean warming may open growth-permissive temperatures in new, poleward photic regimes, along with expanded Oxygen Minimum Zones. We used ocean metaproteomic data on current Prochlorococcus marinus niches, to guide testing of Prochlorococcus marinus growth across a matrix of peak irradiances, photoperiods, spectral bands and dissolved oxygen. MED4 from Clade HLI requires greater than 4 h photoperiod, grows at 25 μmol O2 L-1 and above, and exploits high cumulative diel photon doses. MED4, however, relies upon an alternative oxidase to balance electron transport, which may exclude it from growth under our lowest, 2.5 μmol O2 L-1, condition. SS120 from clade LLII/III is restricted to low light under full 250 μmol O2 L-1, shows expanded light exploitation under 25 μmol O2 L-1, but is excluded from growth under 2.5 μmol O2 L-1. Intermediate oxygen suppresses the cost of PSII photoinactivation, and possibly the enzymatic production of H2O2 in SS120, which has limitations on genomic capacity for PSII and DNA repair. MIT9313 from Clade LLIV is restricted to low blue irradiance under 250 μmol O2 L-1, but exploits much higher irradiance under red light, or under lower O2 concentrations, conditions which slow photoinactivation of PSII and production of reactive oxygen species. In warming oceans, range expansions and competition among clades will be governed not only by light levels. Short photoperiods governed by latitude, temperate winters, and depth attenuation of light, will exclude clade HLI (including MED4) from some habitats. In contrast, clade LLII/III (including SS120), and particularly clade LLIV (including MIT9313), may exploit higher light niches nearer the surface, under expanding OMZ conditions, where low O2 relieves the stresses of oxidation stress and PSII photoinhibition.
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- Mireille Savoie
- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
- Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ecosystems Management Branch, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
- Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk, Gdynia, Poland
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
- Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Institute of Microbiology, Center Algatech, Trebon, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, St. Frances Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
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Gordon CK, Browne LD, Chan S, Brett MW, Zemke-Smith C, Hardy J, Price MB, Davis NJLK. Heterostructured Nanotetrapod Luminophores for Reabsorption Elimination within Luminescent Solar Concentrators. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:17914-17921. [PMID: 36975316 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c01222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) concentrate light via luminescence within a planar-waveguide and have potential use for building-integrated photovoltaics. However, their commercialization and potential applications are currently hindered greatly by photon reabsorption, where emitted waveguided light is parasitically reabsorbed by a luminophore. Nanotetrapod semiconductor materials have been theorized to be excellent luminophores for LSCs owing to their inherently large Stokes shifts. Here we present the first nanotetrapod-based LSCs (5 × 5 × 0.3 cm3) reported in the literature. External quantum efficiencies as high as 4.9 ± 0.5% were achieved under AM1.5G conditions. We also perform an in-depth investigation by optical characterization of the different operational metrics of our nanotetrapod-based LSCs and show reabsorption to be eliminated (mean number of average reabsorption events per photon equal to 0.00) in our most extended nanotetrapod devices.
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- Calum K Gordon
- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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Solovchenko A. Seeing good and bad: Optical sensing of microalgal culture condition. ALGAL RES 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.algal.2023.103071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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Gonzalez-Fernandez F, DeSa R. Obtaining absorbance spectra from turbid retinal cell and tissue suspensions - Beating the light-scatter problem. Exp Eye Res 2023; 230:109434. [PMID: 36878422 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2023.109434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Light scattering and inability to uniformly expose the cuvette contents to an incident light beam are significant limitations of traditional spectrophotometers. The first of these drawbacks limits their usefulness in studies of turbid cellular and tissue suspensions; the second limits their use in photodecomposition studies. Our strategy circumvents both problems. Although we describe its potential usefulness in vision sciences, application of spherical integrating cuvettes has broad application. Absorbance spectra of turbid bovine rod outer segments and dispersed living frog retina were studied using a standard single-pass 1 cm cuvettes, or a spherical integrating cuvette (DeSa Presentation Chamber, DSPC). The DSPC was mounted on an OLIS Rapid Scanning Spectrophotometer configured to generate 100 spectral scans/sec. To follow rhodopsin bleaching kinetics in living photoreceptors, portions of dark-adapted frog retina were suspended in the DSPC. The incoming spectral beam at 2 scans/sec entered the chamber through a single port. Separate ports contained a 519 nm light emitting diode (LED), or window to the photomultiplier tube. The surface of the DSPC was coated with a highly reflective coating allowing the chamber to act as a multi-pass cuvette. The LED is triggered to flash and the PMT shutter temporarily closed during a "Dark-Interval" between each spectral scan. By interleafing scans with LED pulses, spectra changes can be followed in real time. Kinetic analysis of the 3-dimensional data was performed by Singular Value Decomposition. For crude bovine rod outer segment suspensions, the 1 cm single-pass traditional cuvette gave non-informative spectra dominated by high absorbances and Rayleigh scattering. In contrast, spectra generated using the DSPC showed low overall absorbance with peaks at 405 and 503 nm. The later peak disappeared with exposure to white light in presence of 100 mM hydroxylamine. For the dispersed living retinal, the sample was pulsed at 519 nm between the spectra. The 495 nm rhodopsin peak gradually reduced in size concomitant with the emergence of a 400 nm peak, probably representing Meta II. A conversion mechanism of two species, A → B with rate constant of 0.132 sec-1 was fit to the data. To our knowledge this is the first application of integrating sphere technology to retinal spectroscopy. Remarkably, the spherical cuvette designed for total internal reflectance to produce diffused light was efffectively immune to light scattering. Furthermore, the higher effective path length enhanced sensitivity and could be accounted for mathematically allowing determination of absorbance/cm. The approach, which complements the use of the CLARiTy RSM 1000 for photodecomposition studies (Gonzalez-Fernandez et al. Mol Vis 2016, 22:953), may facilitate studies of metabolically active photoreceptor suspensions or whole retinas in physiological assays.
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- Federico Gonzalez-Fernandez
- Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA; Department of Ophthalmology and Pathology, University of Mississippi Medical School, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA; PathRD Inc., Jackson, MS, 39212, USA.
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Mori A, Yamashita K, Tabata Y, Seto K, Tokunaga E. Absorbance spectroscopy of light scattering samples placed inside an integrating sphere for wide dynamic range absorbance measurement. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2021; 92:123103. [PMID: 34972399 DOI: 10.1063/5.0066412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In the absorbance measurement of a sample that scatters light significantly, it is necessary to consider the effect of the attenuation of incident light due to scattering on the measured absorbance. Since the usual absorbance measurement with an integrating sphere (IS) cannot remove the influence of backscattering, we performed the absorbance measurement considering the light scattered to almost all solid angles by placing the sample inside the IS. Ni(NO3)2 and Co(NO3)2 aqueous solutions were used as non-scattering samples, and Ni(NO3)2 solutions mixed with submicrometer polystyrene spheres as scatterers were used as scattering samples. The sample-concentration dependence of the measured absorbance was investigated for the cell containing the sample placed at the entrance of or inside the IS. It was found that even inside the IS, the measured absorbance does not match the true absorbance because light is partially multiply transmitted through the sample or detected without being transmitted through the sample. Due to the latter reason, the saturated absorbance inside the IS was lower than that at the entrance. We derived the formula with three fitting parameters relating the measured and true absorbance taking these factors into account, which quantitatively reproduced the concentration dependence of the absorbance in the non-scattering sample. When the scattering samples were placed at the entrance and inside of the IS, the measured absorbance increased and decreased, respectively, compared to those without scatterers. This decrease in absorbance for the scattering samples inside the IS was also explained by the proposed formula slightly modified.
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- Ayaka Mori
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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Francis A, Tang C, Le Ru EC. Quantitative theory of integrating sphere throughput: comparison with experiments. APPLIED OPTICS 2021; 60:5335-5344. [PMID: 34263770 DOI: 10.1364/ao.428450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We present a rigorous approach for measuring the throughput of an integrating sphere, from which the so-called sphere multiplier M can be derived. The critical ingredients of this approach are: (i) the transmitted power is measured at the base of an integrating port to avoid non-ideal port effects associated with reflections on the port wall; (ii) to implement this last point, optical fibers are used for light collection, providing a well-defined collection area and numerical aperture; (iii) the angular-dependent fiber throughput and detector sensitivity are determined experimentally and accounted for. We demonstrate in particular that a more realistic theory, accounting for the propagation of skew rays through the fiber, is needed to quantitatively model the fiber effect on the measured sphere throughput. We show experimentally that failure to fulfill these three points produces erroneous results, by as much as 50%. With an accurate experimentally derived sphere multiplier, agreement with theory is then obtained only if realistic ports (with non-zero reflectivity) are assumed. This provides experimental evidence for recent theoretical predictions of the importance of realistic ports [Tang et al., Appl. Opt.57, 1581 (2018)APOPAI0003-693510.1364/AO.57.001581]. Using the same experimental techniques, we also present clear experimental proof of two other predictions from that study: that the angular distribution exiting the port is strongly altered and that the overall port transmittivity is drastically reduced for high aspect ratio ports. This work will provide a solid basis for future quantitative measurements of absolute throughput and for further developments of the theory of integrating spheres.
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Djorović A, Oldenburg SJ, Grand J, Le Ru EC. Extinction-to-Absorption Ratio for Sensitive Determination of the Size and Dielectric Function of Gold Nanoparticles. ACS NANO 2020; 14:17597-17605. [PMID: 33306348 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have become an essential tool for a variety of fields across the biological, physical, and chemical sciences. The characterization of AuNPs by UV-vis spectroscopy is simple and commonly used but remains prone to error because of size and shape polydispersity and uncertainties in the dielectric function. We here propose and demonstrate a method to significantly improve this routine characterization technique by measuring not only the extinction but also the absorption spectrum. Specifically, we show that by considering the ratio of the extinction to absorption spectra, denoted η, we are able to determine the volume of AuNPs with a significant increase in accuracy compared to the UV-vis extinction method. We also prove an important property of η: it is independent of particle shape within the quasi-static/dipolar approximation, typically for particle sizes up to 100 nm. This shape independence results in very strong constraints for the theoretical predictions to agree with the experiments. We show that the spectral shape of η can therefore be used to discriminate between different proposed data sets for the dielectric function of gold, a long-standing challenge in plasmonics research.
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- Aleksa Djorović
- The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- nanoComposix, 4878 Ronson Court Suite K, San Diego, California 92111, United States
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- The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, F-75013 Paris, France
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- The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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Blake RC, Guidry JJ, Anthony MD, Ban B, Smith KA, Walton NN, Painter RG. Oxidation of Cytochrome 605 Is the Rate-Limiting Step when Ferrimicrobium acidiphilum Respires Aerobically on Soluble Iron. Appl Environ Microbiol 2020; 86:e01906-20. [PMID: 32917753 PMCID: PMC7642076 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01906-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Proteins that oxidize extracellular substrates in Gram-positive bacteria are poorly understood. Ferrimicrobium acidiphilum is an actinobacterium that respires aerobically on extracellular ferrous ions at pH 1.5. In situ absorbance measurements were conducted on turbid suspensions of intact Fm. acidiphilum using an integrating cavity absorption meter designed for that purpose. Initial velocity kinetic studies monitored the appearance of product ferric ions in the presence of catalytic quantities of cells. Cell-catalyzed iron oxidation obeyed the Michaelis-Menten equation with Km and Vmax values of 71 μM and 0.29 fmol/min/cell, respectively. Limited-turnover kinetic studies were conducted with higher concentrations of cells to detect and monitor changes in the absorbance properties of cellular redox proteins when the cells were exposed to limited quantities of soluble reduced iron. A single a-type cytochrome with reduced absorbance peaks at 448 and 605 nm was the only redox-active chromophore that was visible as the cells respired aerobically on iron. The reduced cytochrome 605 exhibited mathematical and correlational properties that were consistent with the hypothesis that oxidation of the cytochrome constituted the rate-limiting step in the aerobic respiratory process, with a turnover number of 35 ± 2 s-1 Genomic and proteomic analyses showed that Fm. acidiphilum could and did express only two a-type heme copper terminal oxidases. Cytochrome 605 was associated with the terminal oxidase gene that is located between nucleotides 31,090 and 33,039, inclusive, in the annotated circular genome of this bacterium.IMPORTANCE The identities and functions of proteins involved in aerobic respiration on extracellular ferrous ions at acidic pH are poorly understood in the four phyla of Gram-positive eukaryotes and archaea where such activities occur. In situ absorbance measurements were conducted on Fm. acidiphilum as it respired on extracellular iron using an integrating cavity absorption meter that permitted accurate optical measurements in turbid suspensions of the intact bacterium under physiological conditions. The significance of these measurements is that they permitted a direct spectrophotometric examination of the extents and rates of biological electron transfer events in situ under noninvasive physiological conditions without disrupting the complexity of the live cellular environment. One thing is certain: one way to understand how a protein functions in an intact organism is to actually observe that protein as it functions in the intact organism. This paper provides an example of just such an observation.
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- Robert C Blake
- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- LSUHSC Proteomics Core Facility, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Blake RC, White RA. In situ absorbance measurements: a new means to study respiratory electron transfer in chemolithotrophic microorganisms. Adv Microb Physiol 2020; 76:81-127. [PMID: 32408948 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2020.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Absorbance measurements on intact chemolithotrophic microorganisms that respire aerobically on soluble iron are described that used a novel integrating cavity absorption meter to eliminate the effects of light scattering on the experimental results. Steady state kinetic measurements on ferric iron production by intact cells revealed that the Michaelis Menten equation described the initial rates of product formation for at least 8 different chemolithotrophic microorganisms in 6 phyla distributed equally among the archaea and the Gram negative and Gram positive eubacteria. Cell-monitored turnover measurements during aerobic respiration on soluble iron by the same 12 intact microorganisms revealed six different patterns of iron-dependent absorbance changes, suggesting that there may be at least six different sets of prosthetic groups and biomolecules that can accomplish aerobic respiration on soluble iron. Detailed kinetic studies revealed that the 3-component iron respiratory chain of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans functioned as an ensemble with a single macroscopic rate constant when the iron-reduced proteins were oxidized in the presence of excess molecular oxygen. The principal member of this 3-component system was a cupredoxin called rusticyanin that was present in the periplasm of At. ferrooxidans at an approximate concentration of 350 mg/mL, an observation that provides new insights into the crowded environments in the periplasms of Gram negative eubacteria that conduct electrons across their periplasm. The ability to conduct direct spectrophotometric measurements under noninvasive physiological conditions represents a new and powerful approach to examine the rates and extents of biological events in situ without disrupting the complexity of the live cellular environment.
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- Robert C Blake
- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, United States
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States; RAW Molecular Systems (RMS) LLC, Spokane, WA, United States; Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Larson NR, Wei Y, Middaugh CR. Label-Free, Direct Measurement of Protein Concentrations in Turbid Solutions with a UV–Visible Integrating Cavity Absorbance Spectrometer. Anal Chem 2018; 90:4982-4986. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b00502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Nicholas R. Larson
- Macromolecule and Vaccine Stabilization Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States
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- Macromolecule and Vaccine Stabilization Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States
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- Macromolecule and Vaccine Stabilization Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2030 Becker Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, United States
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Akam EA, Utterback RD, Marcero JR, Dailey HA, Tomat E. Disulfide-masked iron prochelators: Effects on cell death, proliferation, and hemoglobin production. J Inorg Biochem 2018; 180:186-193. [PMID: 29324291 PMCID: PMC5956897 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2017.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2017] [Revised: 12/20/2017] [Accepted: 12/24/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The iron metabolism of malignant cells, which is altered to ensure higher acquisition and utilization, motivates the investigation of iron chelation strategies in cancer treatment. In a prochelation approach aimed at increasing intracellular specificity, disulfide reduction/activation switches are incorporated on iron-binding scaffolds resulting in intracellularly activated scavengers. Herein, this strategy is applied to several tridentate donor sets including thiosemicarbazones, aroylhydrazones and semicarbazones. The novel prochelator systems are antiproliferative in breast adenocarcinoma cell lines (MCF-7 and metastatic MDA-MB-231) and do not result in the intracellular generation of oxidative stress. Consistent with iron deprivation, the tested prochelators lead to cell-cycle arrest at the G1/S interface and induction of apoptosis. Notably, although hemoglobin-synthesizing blood cells have the highest iron need in the human body, no significant impact on hemoglobin production was observed in the MEL (murine erythroleukemia) model of differentiating erythroid cells. This study provides new information on the intracellular effects of disulfide-based prochelators and indicates aroylhydrazone (AH1-S)2 as a promising prototype of a new class of antiproliferative prochelator systems.
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- E A Akam
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Arizona, United States.
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Blake II RC, Anthony MD, Bates JD, Hudson T, Hunter KM, King BJ, Landry BL, Lewis ML, Painter RG. In situ Spectroscopy Reveals that Microorganisms in Different Phyla Use Different Electron Transfer Biomolecules to Respire Aerobically on Soluble Iron. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1963. [PMID: 28008327 PMCID: PMC5143472 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 11/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Absorbance spectra were collected on 12 different live microorganisms, representing six phyla, as they respired aerobically on soluble iron at pH 1.5. A novel integrating cavity absorption meter was employed that permitted accurate absorbance measurements in turbid suspensions that scattered light. Illumination of each microorganism yielded a characteristic spectrum of electrochemically reduced colored prosthetic groups. A total of six different patterns of reduced-minus-oxidized difference spectra were observed. Three different spectra were obtained with members of the Gram-negative eubacteria. Acidithiobacillus, representing Proteobacteria, yielded a spectrum in which cytochromes a and c and a blue copper protein were all prominent. Acidihalobacter, also representing the Proteobacteria, yielded a spectrum in which both cytochrome b and a long-wavelength cytochrome a were clearly visible. Two species of Leptospirillum, representing the Nitrospirae, both yielded spectra that were dominated by a cytochrome with a reduced peak at 579 nm. Sulfobacillus and Alicyclobacillus, representing the Gram-positive Firmicutes, both yielded spectra dominated by a-type cytochromes. Acidimicrobium and Ferrimicrobium, representing the Gram-positive Actinobacteria, also yielded spectra dominated by a-type cytochromes. Acidiplasma and Ferroplasma, representing the Euryarchaeota, both yielded spectra dominated by a ba3-type of cytochrome. Metallosphaera and Sulfolobus, representing the Crenarchaeota, both yielded spectra dominated by the same novel cytochrome as that observed in the Nitrospirae and a new, heretofore unrecognized redox-active prosthetic group with a reduced peak at around 485 nm. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that individual acidophilic microorganisms that respire aerobically on iron utilize one of at least six different types of electron transfer pathways that are characterized by different redox-active prosthetic groups. In situ absorbance spectroscopy is shown to be a useful complement to existing means of investigating the details of energy conservation in intact microorganisms under physiological conditions.
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New OrleansLA, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New OrleansLA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New OrleansLA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New OrleansLA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New OrleansLA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New OrleansLA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New OrleansLA, USA
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Marcero JR, Piel Iii RB, Burch JS, Dailey HA. Rapid and sensitive quantitation of heme in hemoglobinized cells. Biotechniques 2016; 61:83-91. [PMID: 27528073 DOI: 10.2144/000114444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 04/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Rapid and accurate heme quantitation in the research lab has become more desirable as the crucial role that intracellular hemoproteins play in metabolism continues to emerge. Here, the time-honored approaches of pyridine hemochromogen and fluorescence heme assays are compared with direct absorbance-based technologies using the CLARiTY spectrophotometer. All samples tested with these methods were rich in hemoglobin-associated heme, including buffered hemoglobin standards, whole blood from mice, and murine erythroleukemia (MEL) and K562 cells. While the pyridine hemochromogen assay demonstrated the greatest linear range of heme detection, all 3 methods demonstrated similar analytical sensitivities and normalized limits of quantitation of ∼1 µM. Surprisingly, the fluorescence assay was only shown to be distinct in its ability to quantitate extremely small samples. Using the CLARiTY system in combination with pyridine hemochromogen and cell count data, a common hemoglobin extinction coefficient for blood and differentiating MEL and K562 cells of 0.46 µM-1 cm-1 was derived. This value was applied to supplemental experiments designed to measure MEL cell hemoglobinization in response to the addition or removal of factors previously shown to affect heme biosynthesis (e.g., L-glutamine, iron).
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- Jason R Marcero
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, University of Georgia, Athens
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Li TF, Painter RG, Ban B, Blake RC. The Multicenter Aerobic Iron Respiratory Chain of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Functions as an Ensemble with a Single Macroscopic Rate Constant. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:18293-303. [PMID: 26041781 PMCID: PMC4513090 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.657551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2015] [Revised: 05/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Electron transfer reactions among three prominent colored proteins in intact cells of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans were monitored using an integrating cavity absorption meter that permitted the acquisition of accurate absorbance data in suspensions of cells that scattered light. The concentrations of proteins in the periplasmic space were estimated to be 350 and 25 mg/ml for rusticyanin and cytochrome c, respectively; cytochrome a was present as one molecule for every 91 nm(2) in the cytoplasmic membrane. All three proteins were rapidly reduced to the same relative extent when suspensions of live bacteria were mixed with different concentrations of ferrous ions at pH 1.5. The subsequent molecular oxygen-dependent oxidation of the multicenter respiratory chain occurred with a single macroscopic rate constant, regardless of the proteins' in vitro redox potentials or their putative positions in the aerobic iron respiratory chain. The crowded electron transport proteins in the periplasm of the organism constituted an electron conductive medium where the network of protein interactions functioned in a concerted fashion as a single ensemble with a standard reduction potential of 650 mV. The appearance of product ferric ions was correlated with the reduction levels of the periplasmic electron transfer proteins; the limiting first-order catalytic rate constant for aerobic respiration on iron was 7,400 s(-1). The ability to conduct direct spectrophotometric studies under noninvasive physiological conditions represents a new and powerful approach to examine the extent and rates of biological events in situ without disrupting the complexity of the live cellular environment.
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- Ting-Feng Li
- From the College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana 70125
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- From the College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana 70125
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- From the College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana 70125
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- From the College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana 70125
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Rana N, McLean S, Mann BE, Poole RK. Interaction of the carbon monoxide-releasing molecule Ru(CO)3Cl(glycinate) (CORM-3) with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium: in situ measurements of carbon monoxide binding by integrating cavity dual-beam spectrophotometry. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2014; 160:2771-2779. [PMID: 25085864 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.081042-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic gas that binds to haems, but also plays critical signalling and cytoprotective roles in mammalian systems; despite problems associated with systemic delivery by inhalation of the gas, it may be employed therapeutically. CO delivered to cells and tissues by CO-releasing molecules (CO-RMs) has beneficial and toxic effects not mimicked by CO gas; CO-RMs are also attractive candidates as novel antimicrobial agents. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is an enteropathogen causing gastroenteritis in humans. Recent studies have implicated haem oxygenase-1 (HO-1), the protein that catalyses the degradation of haem into biliverdin, free iron and CO, in the host immune response to Salmonella infection. In several studies, CO administration via CO-RMs elicited many of the protective roles of HO-1 induction and so we investigated the effects of a well-characterized water-soluble CO-RM, Ru(CO)3Cl(glycinate) (CORM-3), on Salmonella. CORM-3 exhibits toxic effects at concentrations significantly lower than those reported to cause toxicity to RAW 264.7 macrophages. We demonstrated here, through oxyhaemoglobin assays, that CORM-3 did not release CO spontaneously in phosphate buffer, buffered minimal medium or very rich medium. CORM-3 was, however, accumulated to high levels intracellularly (as shown by inductively coupled plasma MS) and released CO inside cells. Using growing Salmonella cultures without prior concentration, we showed for the first time that sensitive dual-beam integrating cavity absorption spectrophotometry can detect directly the CO released from CORM-3 binding in real-time to haems of the bacterial electron transport chain. The toxic effects of CO-RMs suggested potential applications as adjuvants to antibiotics in antimicrobial therapy.
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- Namrata Rana
- Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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Razi Naqvi K. Screening hypochromism (sieve effect) in red blood cells: a quantitative analysis. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2014; 5:1290-1295. [PMID: 24761307 PMCID: PMC3985996 DOI: 10.1364/boe.5.001290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2014] [Revised: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/23/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Multiwavelength UV-visible spectroscopy, Kramers-Kronig analysis, and several other experimental and theoretical tools have been applied over the last several decades to fathom absorption and scattering of light by suspensions of micron-sized pigmented particles, including red blood cells, but a satisfactory quantitative analysis of the difference between the absorption spectra of suspension of intact and lysed red blood cells is still lacking. It is stressed that such a comparison is meaningful only if the pertinent spectra are free from, or have been corrected for, scattering losses, and it is shown that Duysens' theory can, whereas that of Vekshin cannot, account satisfactorily for the observed hypochromism of suspensions of red blood cells.
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Blake RC, Griff MN. In situ Spectroscopy on Intact Leptospirillum ferrooxidans Reveals that Reduced Cytochrome 579 is an Obligatory Intermediate in the Aerobic Iron Respiratory Chain. Front Microbiol 2012; 3:136. [PMID: 22518111 PMCID: PMC3324778 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2011] [Accepted: 03/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Electron transfer reactions among colored cytochromes in intact bacterial cells were monitored using an integrating cavity absorption meter that permitted the acquisition of accurate absorbance data in suspensions of cells that scatter light. The aerobic iron respiratory chain of Leptospirillum ferrooxidans was dominated by the redox status of an abundant cellular cytochrome that had an absorbance peak at 579 nm in the reduced state. Intracellular cytochrome 579 was reduced within the time that it took to mix a suspension of the bacteria with soluble ferrous iron at pH 1.7. Steady state turnover experiments were conducted where the initial concentrations of ferrous iron were less than or equal to that of the oxygen concentration. Under these conditions, the initial absorbance spectrum of the bacterium observed under air-oxidized conditions was always regenerated from that of the bacterium observed in the presence of Fe(II). The kinetics of aerobic respiration on soluble iron by intact L. ferrooxidans conformed to the Michaelis-Menten formalism, where the reduced intracellular cytochrome 579 represented the Michaelis complex whose subsequent oxidation appeared to be the rate-limiting step in the overall aerobic respiratory process. The velocity of formation of ferric iron at any time point was directly proportional to the concentration of the reduced cytochrome 579. Further, the integral over time of the concentration of the reduced cytochrome was directly proportional to the total concentration of ferrous iron in each reaction mixture. These kinetic data obtained using whole cells were consistent with the hypothesis that reduced cytochrome 579 is an obligatory steady state intermediate in the iron respiratory chain of this bacterium. The capability of conducting visible spectroscopy in suspensions of intact cells comprises a powerful post-reductionist means to study cellular respiration in situ under physiological conditions for the organism.
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- Robert C. Blake
- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of LouisianaNew Orleans, LA, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of LouisianaNew Orleans, LA, USA
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Zhang Y, Ding H, Liu Y, Pan S, Luo Y, Li G. Facile one-step synthesis of plasmonic/magnetic core/shell nanostructures and their multifunctionality. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2jm16293h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mignani AG, Ciaccheri L, Ottevaere H, Thienpont H, Conte L, Marega M, Cichelli A, Attilio C, Cimato A. Visible and near-infrared absorption spectroscopy by an integrating sphere and optical fibers for quantifying and discriminating the adulteration of extra virgin olive oil from Tuscany. Anal Bioanal Chem 2010; 399:1315-24. [PMID: 21107823 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-010-4408-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2010] [Revised: 10/29/2010] [Accepted: 11/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Because of its high price, extra virgin olive oil is frequently targeted for adulteration with lower quality oils. This paper presents an innovative optical technique capable of quantifying and discriminating the adulteration of extra virgin olive oil caused by lower-grade olive oils. An original set-up for diffuse-light absorption spectroscopy in the wide 400-1,700 nm spectral range was experimented. It made use of an integrating sphere containing the oil sample and of optical fibers for illumination and detection; it provided intrinsically scattering-free absorption spectroscopy measurements. This set-up was used to collect spectroscopic fingerprints of authentic extra virgin olive oils from the Italian Tuscany region, adulterated by different concentrations of olive-pomace oil, refined olive oil, deodorized olive oil, and refined olive-pomace oil. Then, a straightforward multivariate processing of spectroscopic data based on principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis was applied which was successfully capable of predicting the fraction of adulterant in the mixture, and of discriminating its type. The results achieved by means of optical spectroscopy were compared with the analysis of fatty acids, which was carried out by standard gas chromatography.
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- Anna Grazia Mignani
- CNR-IFAC, Via Madonna del Piano, 10-Building B, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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Erostyák J, Jávorfi T, Buzády A, Naqvi KR, Garab G. Comparative study of integrating cavity absorption meters. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 69:189-96. [PMID: 16644020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbbm.2006.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2005] [Revised: 03/03/2006] [Accepted: 03/14/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Integrating spheres (IS) are widely used for recording spectra of scattering samples by placing the specimen inside or outside the sphere. An unusual application of integrating spheres has been also demonstrated earlier where the liquid sample completely filled the spherical cavity; such a device is often called an integrating cavity absorption meter (ICAM). In the present work, integrating cavities with different coatings are compared. The spheres were made of glass, covered by metal or white paint, and their surfaces were prepared for diffuse or specular reflectance. The spheres were evaluated by recording kinetic traces following a short light pulse with the aid of time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC), and by recording steady-state spectra through single-photon counting (SPC) detection. The relative efficiencies of the spheres were determined by comparing the steady-state spectra. Possible reasons for differences in the performance are discussed.
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- János Erostyák
- Department of Experimental Physics, University of Pécs, Ifjúság u. 6., H-7624 Pécs, Hungary.
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