[Spatial Distribution of Soil Arsenic and Arsenic Enrichment in Crops in the Oasis Region of the Southeastern Tarim Basin].

We use 3487 surface soil samples, 35 soil profile samples, and 93 agricultural products and root soil samples obtained from the southeastern Tarim basin, Xinjiang, northwestern China (Ruoqiang County and Qiemo County, Bayingguo Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture, and Minfeng County and Yutian County, Hetian Prefecture) to assess As contamination. Multivariate statistical analysis, geostatistics, and global information system (GIS) techniques are used to study:the spatial distribution characteristics of soil As, the effects of various agricultural products on As enrichment, and to compare the characteristics of the As content of agricultural products and root soils in spatially significantly and non-significantly autocorrelated regions. The As content of soil samples were relatively low, and the average As contents determined for agricultural land and non-agricultural land were 9.

[Spectral study on the interaction mechanism between thionine and calf thymus DNA].

The interaction mechanism of thionine (TH) and calf thymus DNA (CT-DNA) was studied with UV-Vis absorption spectoscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism (CD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). It was demonstrated that in the pH 7.2 phosphate buffer solution, the interaction of TH and CT-DNA is in the intercalative mode.

[Effect of aggregation extent of microperoxidase-8 on its interaction with La3+].

Oxygen of two propionic acid groups of the heme group in an MP-8 molecule, leading to an increase in the non-planarity of the porphyrin ring of the heme group. The increasing extent in the non-planarity of the porphyrin ring of the heme group due to the interaction of La3+ and MP-8 molecule would be significantly decreased because NaCl could increase the aggregation extent of MP-8 molecules. Although methanol can reduce the aggregation extent of MP-8 molecules, it has little influence on the increasing extent in the non-planarity of the porphyrin ring of the heme group due to the interaction of La3+ and MP-8 molecule.