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Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are widely used in industrial production and daily life because of their unique physicochemical properties, such as their hydrophobicity, oleophobicity, surface activity, and thermal stability. Perfluorosulfonic acids (PFSAs) and perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) are the most studied PFAAs due to their global occurrence. PFAAs are environmentally persistent, toxic, and the long-chain homologs are also bioaccumulative. Exposure to PFAAs may arise directly from emission or indirectly via the environmental release and degradation of PFAA precursors. Selleckchem Kynurenic acid Precursors themselves or their conversion intermediates can present deleterious effects, including hepatotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, developmental toxicity, and genetic toxicity. Therefore, exposure to PFAA precursors constitutes a potential hazard for environmental contamination. In order to comprehensively evaluate the environmental fate and effects of PFAA precursors and their connection with PFSAs and PFCAs, we review environmentne (C-F) bonds and the degradation of non-fluorinated functional groups via oxidation, dealkylation, and defluorination to form shorter-chained PFAAs. Based on the existing research, the current problems and future research directions on the biotransformation of PFAA precursors are proposed.

In approximately half of patients with epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID), the cause is unidentified and could be a mutation in a new disease gene.

To determine the discovery of disease-causing mutation in a female patient with epilepsy and ID, we performed trio whole-exome sequencing, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) followed by Sanger sequencing.

Trio whole-exome sequencing was performed and revealed a novel de novo heterozygous stop-loss c.467A>T (p.*156Leuext*35) mutation in the ATP6V0C gene. Using RNA from leukocytes, RT-PCR followed by Sanger sequencing showed the existence of the mutant RNA, and real-time PCR demonstrated that the patient's ATP6V0C RNA level was approximately half of that in her parents, suggesting haploinsufficiency as a pathomechanism.

These findings, along with previous reports of individuals with similar phenotypes and variants in the same gene, substantiate ATP6V0C as a gene causing epilepsy with ID.

These findings, along with previous reports of individuals with similar phenotypes and variants in the same gene, substantiate ATP6V0C as a gene causing epilepsy with ID.Chromium (Cr) is most widely used heavy metal with vast applications in industrial sectors such as metallurgy, automobile, leather, electroplating, etc. Subsequently, these industries discharge large volumes of toxic Cr containing industrial wastewaters without proper treatment/management into the environment, causing severe damage to human health and ecology. This review gives some novel insights on the existing, successful and promising bio-based approaches for Cr remediation. In lieu of the multiple limitations of the physical and chemical methods for remediation, various biological means have been deciphered, wherein dead and live biomass have shown immense capabilities of removing/reducing and/or remediating Cr from polluted environmental niches. Adsorption of Cr by various agro-based waste and reduction/precipitation by different microbial groups have shown promising results in chromium removal/recovery. Various microbial based agents and aquatic plants like duckweeds are emerging as efficient adsorbents of metals and their role in chromium bioremediation is an effective green technology that needs to be harnessed effectively. The role of iron and sulphur reducing bacteria have shown potential for enhanced Cr remediation. Biosurfactants have revealed immense scope as enhancers of microbial metal bioremediation and have been reported to have potential for use in chromium recovery as well. The authors also explore the combined use of biochar and biosurfactants as a potential strategy for chromium bioremediation for the development of technology worth adopting. Cr is non-renewable and finite resource, therefore its safe removal/recovery from wastes is of major significance for achieving social, economic and environmental sustainability.Although Asian economies have registered strong economic growth over the last few decades, their growing pollution emissions raise concerns among the policymakers about the sustainability of this output growth. This paper tests the causal relationship between economic development, energy consumption, trade openness, financial development, FDI, government expenditures, institutional quality. and pollution emissions for 41 Asian economies from 1996 to 2015. Further, we separately test the impact of political and economic institutions on pollution emissions of the sample economies. Our estimated outcomes, based on the panel cointegration method and panel vector error correction models (VECM), substantiate the presence of a cointegration relationship among all the selected variables. While economic development, energy use, trade openness, and FDI augment environmental degradation, financial development and better economic institutions help the selected countries in reducing their pollution emissions. Moreover, better economic and political institutions also mediate the adverse impact of income, trade openness, and FDI on pollution emissions. The VECM model shows that per capita GDP is the only variable having a causal effect on pollution emissions in all the models. For all the other variables, the causal effect is significant only in a few cases. These outcomes have some important policy recommendations for the sample economies.This study is to develop a novel integrated single-stage anaerobic co-digestion and oxidation ditch membrane bioreactor (SAC/OD-MBR) for food waste and building wastewater recycling. The co-digestion of food waste (FW) from a canteen with waste sludge (WS) from OD-MBR was performed with the proportion of FWWS at 101 by weight. The liquid digestate from the co-digestion process was further co-treated with building wastewater in the OD-MBR system for water reuse purpose. Maximum methane content of 65.2% in biogas as well as average specific methane yield of 0.24 gCH4/gVS could be obtained with anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and waste sludge from OD-MBR with HRT of 24 h and horizontal flow velocity of 0.3 m/s. The observed main methanogen species in this co-digestion process were Methanoculleus bourgensis and Methanoculleus palmolei. For co-treatment of liquid digestate and building wastewater with the OD-MBR, it was found that HRT of 24 h and horizontal flow velocity of 0.3 m/s could achieve highest COD and nitrogen removal efficiencies.