MTF-1 (metal-responsive transcription factor 1) is an essential mammalian protein for embryonic development and modulates the expression of genes involving in zinc homoeostasis and responding to oxidative stress. We report in the present paper that PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10) associates with MTF-1 in the cells. These two proteins interact via the acidic doma...

The growth of highly textured Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films with a preferred (101) orientation has been prepared by employing Successive ionic layer growth by Adsorption Reaction (SILAR) using a sodium zincate bath on glass substrates has been reported. Morphology of the films were found to be varying well from stacked nanorods to shoots of nanotubes and clustered spherical and hilly morphology w...

We report the growth of well-oriented nest (reticulum)-like and lotus flower-like submicron structures of ZnO, over gold and silver nanoparticle assemblies, respectively. The structures were grown by a convenient chemical bath deposition method in a nutrient solution made of zinc nitrate (Zn(NO3)2 Æ 6H2O) and methyl amine (CH3NH2) at low temperature. SEM, XRD, Raman, UV–Vis and fluorescence spe...

A novel method of doping Aluminum (Al) into zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods by a simple chemical dip process is evaluated in terms its performance random lasing. The ZnO were synthesized the bath deposition (CBD) at fixed temperature 96 °C for 3 h. then dipped solution concentration. time was varied between 0 s and 80 gradual increase Al % from nanorod array observed with increasing time. Doping alum...