Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) employ a dinuclear Fe(3+)Fe(2+) or Fe(3+)Zn(2+) center to catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphate monoesters. The interaction of fluoride with bovine spleen purple acid phosphatase (BSPAP) has been studied using a combination of steady-state kinetics and spectroscopic methods. For FeZn-BSPAP, the nature of the inhibition changes from noncompetitive at pH 6.5 (K(i(co...

the aim of the present work was to prepare and characterize biopolymer nanocarriers and evaluate their suitability in possible oral delivery of insulin. the egg albumin biopolymer was used to prepare nanoparticles which were further characterized by fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (ftir), transmission electron microscopy (tem), scanning electron microscopy (sem), zeta potential, dynam...

background and objectives: proteases are a group of enzymes that catalyze the degradation of proteins resulting in the pro- duction of their amino acid constituents. they are the most important group of industrial enzymes which account for about 60% of total enzymes in the market and produced mainly by microorganisms. the attempts were made to study the kinetic parameters of protease produced b...

Glycerol transport is commonly cited as the only example of facilitated diffusion across the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane. Two proteins, the glycerol facilitator and glycerol kinase, are involved in the entry of external glycerol into cellular metabolism. The glycerol facilitator is thought to act as a carrier or to form a selective pore in the cytoplasmic membrane, whereas the kinase ...

The crystal structures of channels and transporters reveal the chemical nature of ion-binding sites and, thereby, constrain mechanistic models for their transport processes. However, these structures, in and of themselves, do not reveal equilibrium selectivity or transport preferences, which can be discerned only from various functional assays. In this Review, I explore the relationship between...

Galactose metabolism in Lactobacillus casei 64H was analyzed by genetic and biochemical methods. Mutants with defects in ptsH, galK, or the tagatose 6-phosphate pathway were isolated either by positive selection using 2-deoxyglucose or 2-deoxygalactose or by an enrichment procedure with streptozotocin. ptsH mutations abolish growth on lactose, cellobiose, N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, fructose,...

manganese is one of the significant raw materials for various industries and most difficult element to remove from water because of its high solubility. the treatment of mn (ii) contained wastewater is stringent for environmental preservations. in the present study adsorption of mn2+ on zero-valent iron nanoparticles synthesized by chemical reduction process and modified with phosphate coating ...

Depletion of EHD3 affects sorting in endosomes by altering the kinetics and route of receptor recycling to the plasma membrane. Here we demonstrate that siRNA knockdown of EHD3, or its interaction partner rabenosyn-5, causes redistribution of sorting nexin 1 (SNX1) to enlarged early endosomes and disrupts transport of internalized Shiga toxin B subunit (STxB) to the Golgi. Moreover, under these...

We developed a new general-relativistic quantum-kinetics neutrino transport code, GRQKNT, for numerical studies of quantum kinetics non-equilibrium neutrinos in six-dimensional phase space. This code is intended use both local and global simulations core-collapse supernova binary neutron star merger. It has been widely recognized that collective oscillations, particular fast neutrino-flavor con...