Long before the appearance of plants or animals, primitive multicellular organisms had developed an effective strategy to ...

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, Michael Gäbler A few degrees difference in a single hydrogen bond angle prevents bacteria from importing arsenate in place of phosphate, a molecule integral to energy production, ...

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The pesticide lead arsenate was introduced in the 1890s. Not long after that, Washington growers were using it to protect their apples from a crop-ruining pest. Tony Schick / OPB/EarthFix.

Even in solutions containing 500-fold more arsenate than phosphate, all five proteins were still able to preferentially bind phosphate. And one protein, from the Mono Lake bacterium, ...

Actually, if arsenate had substituted for phosphate anywhere, I would have looked at the lipids first, again using mass-spectrometry. Philosophically, if it turned out that an organism could use ...

Much of the city of Yakima is built on old orchard lands, acres of which were sprayed with lead arsenate to kill insects prior to the 1940s, when farmers started using DDT instead.

Barium and sodium arsenate were recorded at 95 °K in transmission mode; pharmacolite and calcium arsenate were recorded at 95 °K in fluorescence mode. As 2 O 3 was recorded at room temperature ...

Chromated copper arsenate is a chemical used to treat timber. It protects them from the deleterious effects of insects, fungi etc to help preserve their properties. How the timber is treated, uses of ...

Warrants were issued for the arrest of three Spokane Valley orchardists, who allegedly resisted the efforts of the state horticultural inspector to spray their orchards with arsenate of lead, the ...