Sentence examples for being able to degrade from inspiring English sources
The industrial degradation of formaldehyde was reported and tests were performed in a bioreactor, showing that Methylobacterium sp. XJLW presents tolerance to 60 g·L−1 of formaldehyde and 1,687.5 mg·L−1·h−1 of degradation rate, being able to degrade 5 g·L−1 of formaldehyde [ 100].
Also in this case, POXC showed the best performances, being able to degrade in 30 minutes 50% and 60% of methyl and butylparaben, respectively (degradation did not improve after 1 h incubation).
As a graduate student, Maini Rekdal has already isolated microbes capable of surprising enzymatic feats, such as strains of Eggerthella lenta that can metabolize monoamine neurotransmitters (something few, if any, researchers had observed before) and an Enterococcus species that shows signs of being able to degrade L-dopa.
These micromotors are particularly unique in that they can be wirelessly controlled by light, in addition to being able to degrade organic pollutants because of the high photocatalytic activity of TiO2.
In birds, feathers are inhabited by numerous microorganisms, some of them being able to degrade feathers or lead to infections.
P450 SU1 and the encoded enzyme CYP105A1 were originally identified from the soil bacterium Streptomyces griseolus as being able to degrade sulfonylurea herbicides [ 20].
Therefore, a greater diversity of bacterial genera might be able to degrade MCs with as yet to be characterized degradation mechanisms.
3GZY was able to degrade highly chlorinated PCBs (five to nine Cl atoms), but the degradation rates were not high.
To assess whether spore-bound PLG is able to degrade C3b deposited on the surface, we performed a C3b deposition and degradation assay based on whole-spore ELISA.
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are able to degrade the extracellular matrix of the periodontal tissues.
