Identifying appropriate nutrient management options is crucial for reversing the yield plateau and enhancing nutritional status of basmati rice under rice-wheat cropping system Indo Gangetic Plain (IGP). Alternative to conventional chemical fertilizer, ZnO nanoparticles as carrier material micronutrient Zn has shown promise in reducing bulkiness fertilizer use soil–plant environment. But whethe...

Zinc ion-induced pyrrole hydrogen ionization from a histidyl residue has recently been suggested as the source of the activity-related deprotonation in carbonic anhydrase (EC 4.2.1.1; carbonate hydro-lyase) occurring at pH 7-8. The results offered to support the hypothesis are shown to be deficient. Examination of the literature reveals no precedent for such a pronounced acidification from pK(a...

The effect of zinc ion on the affinity of association of the subunits in 7 S nerve growth factor (NGF) was measured using three different techniques including rapid chromatographic separation on carboxymethylcellulose of 7 S NGF and dissociated products, quantitative frontal analysis of profiles of elution of 7 S NGF from Bio-Gel P-200, and analysis, using LineweaverBurk plots, of the inhibitio...

Zinc activates a specific Zn(2+)-sensing receptor, ZnR/GPR39, and thereby triggers cellular signaling leading to epithelial cell proliferation and survival. Epithelial cells that express ZnR, particularly colonocytes, face frequent changes in extracellular pH that are of physiological and pathological implication. Here we show that the ZnR/GPR39-dependent Ca(2+) responses in HT29 colonocytes we...

Protein Description The PLAGL1 protein is a seven C2H2-type zinc finger protein. The seven zinc finger domain is located at the amino terminal region, from the amino acid residue 1 to 210. Additional features of note are proline and glutamine rich regions at the carboxyl terminal portion (residues 220 to 444). There are two nuclear localization signals at the amino terminal region. Expression O...

Methionine aminopeptidase type 1 (MetAP1) cotranslationally removes N-terminal methionine from nascent polypeptides, when the second residue in the primary structure is small and uncharged. Eukaryotic MetAP1 has an N-terminal zinc finger domain not found in prokaryotic MetAPs. We hypothesized that the zinc finger domain mediates the association of MetAP1 with the ribosomes and have reported gen...

A field survey of herbaceous growing on lead-zinc mining area in Yunnan, China were conducted to identify species accumulating exceptionally large concentrations of Pb, Zn and Cd in shoots. In total, 220 plant samples of 129 species of 50 families and 220 soil samples in which the plants were growing were collected. According to accumulation concentration in plant shoots and the concentration t...

The DNA binding and structural properties of Xfin-31 (Lee, M.S., Gippert, G.P., Soman, K.V., Case, D.A. and Wright, P.E., 1989, Science 245, 635-637), a twenty five amino acid zinc finger peptide, in the reduced, oxidized and zinc complex forms, as well as the fourteen residue helical segment of the zinc finger (residues 12-25) have been compared using affinity coelectrophoresis (ACE) and circu...