| Isocitric Acid From Fermentation Of Sunflower Oil - A New Building ...
The citric acid cycle, one of the most important metabolic processes in our bodies, was formulated in 1937. Since then, all of the intermediates have been produced in multigram quantities - with one exception, (2R,3S)-isocitric acid. Athanassios Giannis and his team at the University of Leipzig have finally done it. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, their process, a combination of one biotechnological and one chemical step, starts with sunflower oil, a renewable starting material. Isocitric acid and its derivatives thus become accessible on a kilogram scale.
In the citric acid cycle, acetyl CoA, formed in the breakdown of lipids, sugars, and amino acids, is used to produce energy that is biochemically available to an organism. Carbon dioxide and water are produced in this process.
They're off!
The good news is that most of the familiar names will be back in the sulky tonight as the 2008 standardbred racing season opens at Northlands Park. If you're looking for bad news, consider the fact that veteran Bill Davis, Dave Hudon and others who make an annual trek from British Columbia will arrive a little later than usual this year. "We'll have a lot of young horses, especially early in the year," racing secretary Al Bott said yesterday. "About 275 horses have qualified so far. That's down a bit from last spring." One of the late arrivals will be Trust the Artist, who won the Western Canada Pacing Derby with Kelly Hoerdt in the bike last year. The speedster equalled a track record of 1:51 4/5 at Fraser Downs in Vancouver last week. "In a 12-race card, there were more than 20 horses from Alberta," Bott said.
Hollow weenies
They're all so sorry now. They're lining up and rushing to the microphones, one steroid-cheating baseball player after another, to offer up heartfelt apologies, now that they see how easy the guy with the first apology got off. I've heard an awful lot of mentions of God and children and the right thing to do. .
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