• This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions about carbon disulfide. (cdc.gov)
  • Exposure to carbon disulfide can occur by breathing it in the air and by drinking water or eating foods that contain it. (cdc.gov)
  • Carbon disulfide has been found in at least 210 of the 1,430 National Priorities List sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (cdc.gov)
  • What is carbon disulfide? (cdc.gov)
  • Pure carbon disulfide is a colorless liquid with a pleasant odor that is like the smell of chloroform. (cdc.gov)
  • The impure carbon disulfide that is usually used in most industrial processes is a yellowish liquid with an unpleasant odor, like that of rotting radishes. (cdc.gov)
  • Carbon disulfide evaporates at room temperature, and the vapor is more than twice as heavy as air. (cdc.gov)
  • In nature, small amounts of carbon disulfide are found in gases released to the earth's surface as, for example, in volcanic eruptions or over marshes. (cdc.gov)
  • Commercial carbon disulfide is made by combining carbon and sulfur at very high temperatures. (cdc.gov)
  • What happens to carbon disulfide when it enters the environment? (cdc.gov)
  • The amount of carbon disulfide released into the air through natural processes is difficult to judge because it is so small. (cdc.gov)
  • Carbon disulfide evaporates rapidly when released to the environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Most carbon disulfide in the air and surface water is from manufacturing and processing activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Carbon disulfide does not stay dissolved in water very long, and it also moves through soils fairly quickly. (cdc.gov)
  • Carbon disulfide does not appear to be taken up in significant amounts by the organisms living in water. (cdc.gov)
  • How might I be exposed to carbon disulfide? (cdc.gov)
  • The people most often exposed to carbon disulfide are workers in plants that use carbon disulfide in their manufacturing processes. (cdc.gov)
  • People may also be exposed through skin contact with soil, water, or other substances that contain carbon disulfide. (cdc.gov)
  • How can carbon disulfide affect my health? (cdc.gov)
  • At very high levels, carbon disulfide may be life-threatening because of its effects on the nervous system. (cdc.gov)
  • People who breathed carbon disulfide near an accident involving a railroad car showed changes in breathing and some chest pains. (cdc.gov)
  • However, these workers may have been exposed to other chemicals besides carbon disulfide. (cdc.gov)
  • Studies in animals indicate that carbon disulfide can affect the normal functions of the brain, liver, and heart. (cdc.gov)
  • After pregnant rats breathed carbon disulfide in the air, some of the newborn rats died or had birth defects. (cdc.gov)
  • High concentrations of carbon disulfide have caused skin burns when the chemical accidentally touched people's skin. (cdc.gov)
  • How likely is carbon disulfide to cause cancer? (cdc.gov)
  • The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the EPA have not classified carbon disulfide for carcinogenicity. (cdc.gov)
  • There are no definitive data in humans or animals that indicate a carcinogenic potential for carbon disulfide. (cdc.gov)
  • Is there a medical test to show whether I've been exposed to carbon disulfide? (cdc.gov)
  • One chemical test using urine can be done to tell whether the levels of breakdown substances from carbon disulfide are higher than normal. (cdc.gov)
  • However, the test is not specific for carbon disulfide exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • It also requires special equipment and cannot tell you exactly how much carbon disulfide you were exposed to or predict whether harmful effects will occur. (cdc.gov)
  • Most carbon disulfide in the air and surface water is from Pure carbon disulfide is a colorless liquid with a pleasant manufacturing and processing activities. (cdc.gov)
  • disulfide that is usually used in most industrial processes is a Carbon disulfide does not stay dissolved in water very yellowish liquid with an unpleasant odor, like that of rotting long, and it also moves through soils fairly quickly. (cdc.gov)
  • In nature, small amounts of carbon disulfide are found in The people most often exposed to carbon disulfide are workers in plants that use carbon disulfide in their manu gases released to the earth's surface as, for example, in volca facturing processes. (cdc.gov)
  • At very high levels, carbon disulfide may be life-threaten is so small. (cdc.gov)
  • Has the federal government made posed to other chemicals besides carbon disulfide. (cdc.gov)
  • Studies in animals indicate that carbon disulfide can af reported to the EPA. (cdc.gov)
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration pregnant rats breathed carbon disulfide in the air, some of the (OSHA) has set a limit of 20 parts of carbon disulfide per mil newborn rats died or had birth defects. (cdc.gov)
  • High concentrations of carbon disulfide have caused skin workweek. (cdc.gov)
  • Lefaux 1968], the original IDLH for carbon disulfide (500 ppm) is not being revised at this time. (cdc.gov)
  • Emergency response planning guidelines: carbon disulfide. (cdc.gov)
  • Carbon disulfide is described by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a colorless liquid with an ether-like odor. (emsl.com)
  • The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) reports that carbon disulfide evaporates at room temperature and the vapor is more than twice as heavy as air. (emsl.com)
  • Many industries use carbon disulfide as a building block in organic chemistry and as an industrial solvent. (emsl.com)
  • Workers may be harmed from exposure to carbon disulfide with the level of exposure depending upon the dose, duration and work being done," said Joe Frasca, Senior Vice President, Marketing at EMSL Analytical, Inc. "Exposure can occur by breathing contaminated air, skin contact, or by drinking water or foods that contain it. (emsl.com)
  • To help protect workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) and NIOSH has a Recommended Exposure Limit (REL) for carbon disulfide. (emsl.com)
  • EMSL Analytical offers industrial hygiene and environmental testing services to detect and monitor for occupational exposure risks to carbon disulfide and many other potential chemical hazards. (emsl.com)
  • We investigated exposures to carbon disulfide and shift work and their association with coronary artery disease. (bmj.com)
  • Method Jobs with carbon disulfide and shift work exposure (≥1 day) were identified among departments and job titles in specific years. (bmj.com)
  • In internal comparisons, long-term workers exposed to carbon disulfide and shift work for 4 years or more had a near 3-fold increase in coronary artery disease mortality, compared to workers exposed less than 4 years. (bmj.com)
  • Note: Reference standards containing greater than 99% carbon disulfide are classified as UN1131 carbon disulfide 3(6.1), I and are restricted from air transportation. (restek.com)
  • Carbon Disulfide (CS₂) is an effective solvent for oils, waxes, sulfur and many organic compounds. (nouryon.com)
  • Carbon disulfide is a main building block in the production of agricultural chemicals including some of the fungicides and soil fumigants that allow farmers to increase yields. (nouryon.com)
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  • Turbulent fluxes of carbonyl sulfide (COS) and carbon disulfide (CS 2 ) were measured over a spruce forest in Central Germany using the relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) technique. (copernicus.org)
  • In this series of papers, we examine the effects of introducing disulfide bonds on the properties, structure and thermodynamics of a small globular protein, barnase. (rcsb.org)
  • In biology, disulfide bridges formed between thiol groups in two cysteine residues are an important component of the secondary and tertiary structure of proteins. (wikipedia.org)
  • All three proteins have essentially the same fold as wild-type, but with left-handed disulfide bonds, which have dihedral geometries that have not been observed in naturally occurring disulfides. (rcsb.org)
  • Our studies do not support the view that the conformation of the disulfide bond is crucial in determining the stability of the mutant proteins. (rcsb.org)
  • Proteins that require disulfide bonds for their folding thus can be oxidized and form stable disulfide bonds within the cytoplasm. (neb.com)
  • This feature greatly enhances the fidelity of disulfide bond formation in the cytoplasm, and proteins with multiple disulfide bonds are correctly oxidized to significantly higher yields. (neb.com)
  • 1987) Analysis for disulfide bonds in peptides and proteins. (uni-konstanz.de)
  • With Antec Scientific's new ground-breaking µ-PrepCell-SS, electrochemical reduction of disulfide bonds in peptides, proteins, mAbs, and other biopharmaceuticals becomes possible routinely in LC-MS workflows. (chromatographyonline.com)
  • Disulfide bonds are an integral component of the three-dimensional structure of many proteins. (lifetein.com)
  • Disulfides in proteins play an important role in the maintenance of biological activity and conformational stability. (lifetein.com)
  • Prediction of disulfide bridges from protein sequences is useful for characterizing structural and functional properties of proteins. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Some interesting structural, functional, and evolutionary properties of proteins can be inferred from knowledge about the existence and the precise location of disulfide bridges. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Since most of the proteins inferred from genomic sequencing lack this structural information, the ab-initio prediction of disulfide bridges from protein sequences can be very useful in several molecular biology studies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • in contrast, spiders rely on a single class of proteins , known as disulfide -rich peptides , to create their deadly venom cocktail. (bvsalud.org)
  • Image analysis of the matched maps identified 7 proteins that were either over- or down-expressed: activated protein kinase c receptor (LACK), alpha tubulin (×2), prostaglandin f2-alpha synthase, protein disulfide isomerase, vesicular transport protein and a hypothetical protein. (who.int)
  • The third disulfide bond, between residues 70 and 92 (70-92) destabilises the protein relative to both wild-type and the corresponding dithiol form, implying significant disruption of the folded protein on formation of the disulfide bond. (rcsb.org)
  • The disulfide bond at 43-80 induces small structural rearrangements close to the site of the disulfide bond, associated with some local disorder: the crosslink appears to decrease the stability of the native form of the protein. (rcsb.org)
  • These studies show that disulfide trapping is useful for characterizing allosteric sites on kinases and that a single allosteric site on a protein kinase can be exploited for both activation and inhibition by small molecules. (rcsb.org)
  • This work aimed to address this opportunity gap and develop novel, small molecule diagnostic and therapeutic tools to selectively target the Trx system based on a modular trigger cargo design: artificial cyclic disulfide substrates (trigger) for oxidoreductases are tethered to molecular agents (cargo) such that the cargo's activity is masked and is re-established only through reduction by a target protein. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Qin R , Zhu H , Wang F , Song M , Lin P , Xing Y , Zhang W , Zhong M , Wang Z , . Platelet activation in diabetic mice models: the role of vascular endothelial cell-derived protein disulfide isomerase-mediated GP IIb/IIIa receptor activation. (aging-us.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the release of Endothelial microparticle (EMP)-associated protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) after endothelial cell injury induced in diabetes and the changes in platelet activation. (aging-us.com)
  • A disulfide bridge is created when a sulfur atom from one cysteine forms a single covalent bond with another sulfur atom from a second cysteine residue located in a different part of the protein. (lifetein.com)
  • Modification of the cysteine using Acm blocks disulfide bond formation, but retains the cysteine and preserves the primary structure of the protein. (lifetein.com)
  • We introduce new methods for predicting disulfide bridges from protein sequences. (biomedcentral.com)
  • First, a binary classifier is trained to predict whether a given protein chain has at least one intra-chain disulfide bridge. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Disulfide bonds help a protein fold by connecting cysteines in different regions of the protein. (medlineplus.gov)
  • When cysteines within the TNFR1 protein are replaced with other amino acids, the disulfide bonds are not formed, and the protein is misfolded. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Triple-looped protein domains linked by disulfide bonds. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this context, the author has previously revealed that the US Department of Energy Berkeley Lab research team accurately measured band gap of semiconductor two-dimensional molybdenum-disulfide material (MoS2). (robocup2009.org)
  • While tungsten disulfide isn't been extensively studied, it shares some similarities with MoS2 in regards to lamellar structure as well as tribological properties. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • What is Molybdenum Disulfide MoS2? (iberocruceros.com)
  • What is Molybdenum Disulfide MoS2 Used For? (iberocruceros.com)
  • Here, we introduced a theranostic nanoprobe based on molybdenum disulfide nanosheet-coated gold nanorods (MoS2-AuNR) targeting never growth factor (NGF), a key player in pain sensation, for photoacoustic pain imaging and near-infrared (NIR) imaging-guided photothermal analgesic therapy. (visualsonics.com)
  • Most disulfides encountered in organo sulfur chemistry are symmetrical disulfides. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the converse reaction, carbanionic reagents react with elemental sulfur to afford mixtures of the thioether, disulfide, and higher polysulfides. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tin disulfide may be obtained via direct fusion of tin and sulfur with iodine. (iberocruceros.com)
  • Amongst one of the most present research study of the molybdenum field uncovered that the high-purity molybdenum disulfide created by the synthesis approach has issues in lubrication as an outcome of the reality that molybdenum disulfide is 2 sulfur atoms+ one molybdenum atom. (bpovoice.com)
  • Cysteines contain sulfur atoms that form connections, called disulfide bonds, with other cysteines. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Many of these compounds have weak links that enzymes and stomach acid can take apart, such as sulfur-to-sulfur (disulfide) bonds. (medscape.com)
  • A disulfide bridge is declared between all pairs of Cys residues whose SG-SG distances are less than 2.5Å. (salilab.org)
  • The artificial formation of disulfide bridges requires the proper management of cysteine residues, including first protecting and then later removing side groups and properly pairing the cysteine residues. (lifetein.com)
  • The CPP-Ts peptide containing 45 amino acid residues and three properly positioned disulfide bonds and the CPP-Ts sub peptide containing 26 residues were chemically synthesized by LifeTein, LLC (New Jersey, USA). (lifetein.com)
  • LifeTein offers the formation of cyclic peptides via disulfide bridges between cysteine residues within the peptide. (lifetein.com)
  • Disulfide bond formation is straightforward in peptides with one pair of cysteine residues. (lifetein.com)
  • Disulfide bond formation can be prevented by modifying the cysteines using Acm, or by replacing cysteine residues with alanine. (lifetein.com)
  • In inorganic chemistry disulfide usually refers to the corresponding anion S2− 2 (−S−S−). A selection of disulfides Symmetrical disulfides are compounds of the formula R2S2. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tin disulfide, an inorganic compound with a chemical formula of SnS2. (iberocruceros.com)
  • Spider venoms are a complex concoction of enzymes , polyamines , inorganic salts , and disulfide -rich peptides (DRPs). (bvsalud.org)
  • Tungsten disulfide is an efficient lubricant that is used in applications that require a significant load carrying capacity. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide is employed as a lubricant to bearings and fasteners in a variety of industries. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide is a member of the family of transition-metal dichalcogenides. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide is also famous for its characteristics in the electronic field like a very high on/off ratio as well as a programmable photoluminescence. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Similar to Molybdenum disulfide, tungsten disulfide is also attracting attention in other fields. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide comes in many forms in the aerospace, defense medical and defense fields. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide has no reaction under ordinary conditions, which makes it extremely insane to use and to keep. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Another application of tungsten disulfide comes from space engineering. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide thin-films exhibit excellent thermal and tribological properties. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide (WS2) is a chemical compound with its chemical formula of WS2. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • Tungsten disulfide is used in optoelectronics and nanoelectronics and gas-sensing devices. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • If you're searching for Tungsten Disulfide , please get in touch with us. (cookingmamacookoff.com)
  • however, only few scorpion venom peptides without disulfide bridges have been identified and characterized. (nih.gov)
  • Although disulfide bridges are normally formed toward the end of peptide synthesis, it can be advantageous to couple or elongate chains that include a pre-formed disulfide bond. (lifetein.com)
  • Typical approaches predict disulfide bridges by solving two separate sub-problems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Second, given known bonding state, disulfide bridges are assigned by predicting which pairs of half-cystines are linked. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In biochemistry, a disulfide (or disulphide in British English) refers to a functional group with the structure R−S−S−R′. The linkage is also called an SS-bond or sometimes a disulfide bridge and is usually derived by the coupling of two thiol groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • More specifically, redox homeostasis broadly affects cellular metabolism and proliferation, with major contributions by thiol/disulfide oxidoreductase systems, in particular, the Thioredoxin Reductase Thioredoxin (TrxR/Trx) and the Glutathione Reductase-Glutathione-Glutaredoxin (GR/GSH/Grx) systems. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Instead, aiming for more stable ring systems and thus more robust redox probes, during this work, I developed bicyclic 6 membered disulfides (piperidine fused 1,2 dithianes) with remarkably low reduction potentials. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Additionally, SHuffle strains express the disulfide bond isomerase DsbC within the cytoplasm. (neb.com)
  • This company is a trusted supplier and manufacturer of high quality chemical materials and nanotechnology products with more than 12 years experience, such as tin disulfide. (mis-asia.com)
  • Molybdenum disulfide is a strong powder made from all-natural molybdenum concentrate powder after chemical filtration in addition to likewise changing the molecular structure. (bpovoice.com)
  • In chemical synthesis, the folding and disulfide formation of the fully unprotected amino acids in an aqueous solution by a mild oxidization to form the target product with the correct disulfide bonds. (lifetein.com)
  • Among these TMDCs, the study of molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ) has gained increasing attention due to its promising optical, electronic, and optoelectronic properties. (mdpi.com)
  • Different kinds of transition metal disulfides(TMDCs) were prepared via solvothermal method. (edu.au)
  • Molybdenum disulfide is the most widely used, and boron nitride and graphite fluoride have the best performance. (iberocruceros.com)
  • First, cysteines are partitioned into two groups: half-cystine (involved in the formation of a disulfide bridge) and the rest (free and bound to either a metal ion or to a prosthetic group). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The major prior art in this field has applied cyclic 5-membered disulfides (1,2 dithiolanes) as substrates for TrxR in a similar way to create such tools. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Solvothermal Synthesis of 2D Metallic Transition Metal Disulfides for " by Qiangmin Yu, Zhiyuan Zhang et al. (edu.au)
  • The future directions of this research project goes towards stacked growth of other 2D materials as for example 2D transition metal disulfides and the growth from mass selected and charged fragments onto imprinted charge or defect patterns on 2D films. (lu.se)
  • Disulfide mutants of barnase. (rcsb.org)
  • By monitoring pairwise disulfide conjugation between PIFtide and PDK1 cysteine mutants, we defined the PIFtide binding orientation in the PIF pocket of PDK1 and assessed subtle relationships between PIFtide positioning and kinase activation. (rcsb.org)
  • When the angle approaches 0° or 180°, then the disulfide is a significantly better oxidant. (wikipedia.org)
  • while the MRD method lacks the intrinsic spatial resolution been taken to indicate that the D state induced by strong denatu- of the NOE method, it provides more direct information about rants (and disulfide reduction) approaches a random coil1, imply- the extent (number of water molecules), order (orientational ing that the polypeptide chain is exposed to bulk solvent. (lu.se)
  • Arsenic Disulfide is a crystalline solid used as a semiconductor and in photo optic applications. (americanelements.com)
  • Tin disulfide It is an n-type semiconductor with a layered hexagonal CdI2 cristal structure. (mis-asia.com)
  • The disulfide bonds are strong, with a typical bond dissociation energy of 60 kcal/mol (251 kJ mol−1). (wikipedia.org)
  • However, being about 40% weaker than C−C and C−H bonds, the disulfide bond is often the "weak link" in many molecules. (wikipedia.org)
  • RS-Nu + RS-}}} The disulfide bond is about 2.05 Å in length, about 0.5 Å longer than a C−C bond. (wikipedia.org)
  • The destabilising disulfide bond at 70-92 induces considerable structural change, with displacement of a loop and consequent disruption of a stabilising salt-bridge. (rcsb.org)
  • How do SHuffle® strains aid in cytoplasmic disulfide bond formation? (neb.com)
  • The results suggested that a disulfide bond, which could be reduced and reoxidized, may play an important role in ligand binding. (aspetjournals.org)
  • And I patch the disulfide bond for the atomic model by vmd eyeball check, then patch the coarse grain model by path. (uiuc.edu)
  • Powerful oxidizing agents for peptides with a single disulfide bond. (lifetein.com)
  • The purified enzyme has a molecular mass of 25 kDa, a pI of 5.1, and exists in two forms which differ in the nature of their intramolecular disulfide bonds. (lu.se)
  • RSSR' + Na2SO3}}} The most important aspect of disulfide bonds is their cleavage, which occurs via reduction. (wikipedia.org)
  • Disulfide bonds are usually formed from the oxidation of sulfhydryl (−SH) groups, especially in biological contexts. (wikipedia.org)
  • EC1 undergoes oxidation of its Cys residue to form disulfide-linked covalent dimers. (ku.edu)
  • Almost all markets using greases and almost all types of grease thickeners use molybdenum disulfide, including lithium complexes, aluminum complexes and polyureas. (iberocruceros.com)
  • Molybdenum disulfide responds with alkyl lithium in control to establish an ingrained substance (intercalation item) LixMoS2. (bpovoice.com)
  • Modification of thiol-disulfide state of receptor may be involved in the control of binding activity. (aspetjournals.org)
  • To fill this knowledge gap, Shaikh and Sunagar scanned the sequences of all disulfide -rich peptides generated to date, bringing together a dataset that includes 60% of all modern-day spiders . (bvsalud.org)
  • Synthesizing peptides that contain two or more pairs of disulfide bonds is more complex. (lifetein.com)
  • These non-disulfide-bridged peptides (NDBPs) are a novel class of molecules because of their unique antimicrobial, immunological or cellular signaling activities. (nih.gov)
  • Molybdenum disulfide is a crucial strong lubricating substance, specifically ideal for warms along with anxiousness. (bpovoice.com)
  • Most of the molybdenum disulfide density raw materials extracted are in the form of non-renewable substances, placing a heavy burden on the environment, society and climate. (abbaworld.com)
  • SHuffle is a mutant E.coli strain lacking the two reductases ( trxB and gor ) with an additional suppressor mutation ( ahpC ) which restores viability, allowing the formation of stable disulfide bonds in the cytoplasm. (neb.com)
  • Historically, knowledge and the production of new materials molybdenum disulfide density have contributed to human and social progress, from the refining of copper and iron to the manufacture of semiconductors on which our information society depends today. (abbaworld.com)