Bitter melons have been proven with anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic activities. However, due to its short shelf life bitter taste, the consumption of melon is limited in United States. Among many encapsulation technologies, spray drying a cost-effective method for bioactive compounds. Polysaccharides proteins are vastly used as wall materials The juice can provide protection over compounds ...

The endoxylanase complex from Streptomyces sp. strain B-12-2 was purified and characterized. The organism forms five distinct xylanases in the absence of significant cellulase activity when grown on oat spelt xylan. This is the largest number of endoxylanases yet reported for a streptomycete. On the basis of their physiochemical characteristics, they can be divided into two groups: the first gr...

A radioimmunoassay for measurement of canine fibrinopeptide A, which provides a quantitative index of thrombin action on fibrinogen, has been applied to measurements of the thrombogenicity of five angiographic catheters commercially available and presently in clinical use. Examples of thin-walled polyethylene, wired polyethylene, Teflon, polyurethane, and woven Dacron catheters were characteriz...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The immunogenic capacity of donor human leukocyte antigen (HLA) to induce humoral immune responses is not an intrinsic property of the mismatched alloantigen but depends on the HLA phenotype of the recipient. In recent years, advances in molecular sequence technology and information from X-ray crystallography have enabled structural comparison of donor and recipient HLA type p...

A study was carried out to evaluate the water quality of Sargodha city water supply system. Water samples from four different sources (1 tubewell and 3 surface water sources) and eight house connections (2 from each source respectively) were collected making a total of twelve sampling points. Two set of samples, one before monsoon and one after monsoon were collected from each sampling point. A...

Milk is an important source of all basic nutrients required for mammals including human beings. The study was conducted to evaluate physiochemical quality of milk samples in selected dairy plant of Iran. Various physiochemical properties of milk were analyzed by Lactostar analyzer and compared to the related standards. Also another major concern of this study was to consider the presence of mel...

It has been unclear to which antimicrobial activities (e.g., anti-gram-positive bacterial, anti-gram-negative bacterial, antifungal, antiparasitic, and antiviral activities) of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) a given physiochemical property matters most. This is the first computational study using large-scale AMPs to examine the relationships between antimicrobial activities and two major physioc...

Linking similar proteins structurally is a challenging task that may help in finding the novel members of a protein family. In this respect, identification of conserved sequence can facilitate understanding and classifying the exact role of proteins. However, the exact role of these conserved elements cannot be elucidated without structural and physiochemical information. In this work, we prese...

Aquaporins (AQPs) are membrane channel proteins which facilitate the rapid transport of water across cellular membrane and are of fundamental importance to the control of cell volume and transcellular water traffic. In the present study using bioinformatic tools an in silico modeling and analysis of aquaporin protein sequences of catfish Heteropneustes fossilis was conducted. Primary structure ...