Assignment 9: Annotated Bibliography

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed028p581

• How does the book or article fit into your potential research? What does it add to your paper or ideas?

This article provides detailed information about the subject of my bibliography, Germain Hess and his creation of Thermochemistry.

• Was the source helpful to you? Does the source relate to your potential topic?

The source was helpful because it explains a law that is intrinsic to processes in biochemical systems.

• How and where can you use this source in your potential research project?

I can use this source to explain the work Germain Hess accomplished whilst working towards developing modern Thermochemistry

Many species of bacteria involved in degradation of n-alkanes have an important constitutional metabolic enzyme, the alkane hydroxylase called AlkB, specialized in the conversion of hydrocarbons molecules that can be used as carbon and/or energy source. This enzyme plays an important role in the microbial degradation of oil, chlorinated hydrocarbons, fuel additives, and many other compounds. A number of these enzymes has been biochemically characterized in detail because the potential of alkane hydroxylases to catalyse high added-value reactions is widely recognized. Nevertheless, the industrial and process bioremediation application of them is restricted, owing to their complex biochemistry, challenging process requirements, and the limited number of their three-dimensional structures. In the author's research, they determined the protein reaction regions by binding it's stimulated energy with Molecular Fractionation.