Volume 1, Issue 3 (2005) | American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Role of Plasmid in Production of Acetobacter Xylinum Biofilms

Abbas Rezaee — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.121.124

Acetobacter xylinum has the ability to produce cellulotic biofilms. Bacterial cellulose is expected to be used in many industrial or biomedical materials for its unique characteristics. A. xylinum con...

Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Banana (Musa, AAA cv. Cavendish) Fruits Peel

Matook Saif Mokbel — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.125.131

The fresh green and yellow banana peel of, (Musa, cv. Cavendish) fruits were treated with 70% acetone, which were partitioned with chloroform (CHCl3) and ethyl acetate (EtOAc), sequentially. The antio...

Effect of Feed Additives on the Development of Proteolytic Enzymes of the Tropical Sport Fish Malaysian Mahseer (Tor tambroides-Bleeker) Fry

K.C.A. Jalal — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.132.134

Tor tambroides fry with a mean of 8.0±0.72 mm standard length (SL) and weighing (W) 0.06±0.01g were stocked at the rate of fifty (50) individuals in each of the fifteen 150l rectangular fibre glass ...

Human Latrophilin-2 is Expressed in the Cytotrophoblast and Syncytiotrophoblast of Placenta and in Endothelial Cells

Gunda Herberth — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.135.144

Latrophilin-2 is a member of the family of adhesion-GPCRs that is characterised by a long N-terminus which contains motifs identified in proteins involved in cell adhesion. We were interested in deter...

A New Text Mining Approach for Finding Protein-to-Disease Associations

Hisham Al-Mubaid — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.145.152

Discovering significant relationships between biological entities from text documents is an important task for biologists in order to develop biological models for research and discovery, especially w...

Characteristics of Lipoprotein Peak x Eluted from a Column with the Eluent of High-magnesium Ion Concentration in Lipoprotein Analysis Using the Cation-exchange Chromatography

Yuji Hirowatari — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.153.159

The new lipoprotein analysis method using a cation-exchange chromatography, which contains a sulfopropyl-ligand column and two magnesium ion-containing eluents was previously reported. This method can...

Early Cellular Responses of Purine Nucleoside-mediated Protection of Hypoxia-induced Injuries of Neuronal PC12 Cells

Bettina Tomaselli — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.160.166

Hypoxia in brain may lead to cell death by apoptosis and necrosis. In parallel adenosine, a powerful endogenous neuroprotectant is formed. We wanted to investigate the effect of adenosine and its puri...

Molecular Characterization of Tospovirus Transmitting Thrips Populations from India

Rang Lal Meena — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.167.172

The presence of Tospovirus in thrips vector, Scirtothrips dorsalis has been detected for the first time in India using RT- PCR analysis. Similarly RT-PCR analysis with GBNV infected tomato leaves also...

Head-Space Solid Phase Micro-extraction Followed by GC/MS Analysis of the Volatile Components in Seeds of Cinnamonum camphora

Yang Yong — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.173.175

The volatile components in seeds of Cinnamomum camphora were analyzed by Solid Phase Micro-extraction (SPME) combined with GC/MS. Twenty four main kinds of volatile compounds, among which the Sesquite...

Influence of Rhizobacterial Inoculation on Growth of the Sweetpotato Cultivar

Y. Farzana — 2005-09-30

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 30 September 2005; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2005.176.179

Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) is the most important of local tuber crops in Malaysia. It is usually planted on marginal soils such as peat and sandy soils. Malaysian consumes a lot of sweetpotato a...