Abstract Organic esters of phosphoric acid and other organophosphorous compounds are enzymatically hydrolyzed during wastewater treatment by microbial phosphoesterases, especially phosphomonoesterase (phosphatase). For physiological reasons, the enzyme is inhibited its main inorganic reaction product, ortho-phosphate. It known that oxyanions transition metals, resembling molecular topology orth...

A competitive inhibition enzyme immunoassay for the detection of Streptococcus pyogenes directly from throat specimens or from solid bacteriological medium is described. Group A-specific polysaccharide adsorbed onto treated polystyrene beads, in conjunction with rabbit antibody to S. pyogenes, was used to determine the presence of the polysaccharide antigen. Inhibition values in excess of 65% w...

Objective(s):One strategy for the treatment of diabetes is inhibition of pancreatic α- amylase. Plants contains different chemical constituents with potential for inhibition of α-amylase and hence maybe used as therapeutic. Materials and Methods: Urtica dioica and Juglans regia Linn were tested for α-amylase inhibition. Different concentrations of leaf aqueous extracts were incubated with enzym...

Microplate reader assays offer several advantages over conventional spectrophotometric assays. We adapted the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) enzyme inhibition assay for use in a 96-well microplate reader to measure plasma methotrexate (MTX) concentrations. The assay is linear from 0.01 to 0.1 micromol/L. The within-run CVs at 0.03 micromol/L and 0.08 micromol/L MTX were 4.0% and 2.7%, respectiv...

Antibodies directed against the enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) are believed to be the main cause of destruction of pancreatic islet cells in type I (insulin dependent) diabetes mellitus. The enzyme was found both in the brain and pancreatic beta cells. Although similarities in identity of GAD in human and rat brain have been demonstrated, little is known about the interaction betw...

To investigate the effects and potential mechanisms of chicoric acid (CA) on LPS-induced inflammatory response in A549 cells. 0–800 μM CA was added to cells determine toxicity using MTT assay. Then, 2 μg/mL LPS 50 were simultaneously CA. In order miR-130a-3p IGF-1 cells, infected with inhibitor si RNA IGF-1. The levels cytokines such as IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α measured by real-time RT-PCR enzyme-lin...