INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

131-138

Authors: Tauseef Ahmad

Computational biology avails us to prognosticate the functionality in the uncharacterized proteins sequence utilizing the various strategies of comparative proteomics Neisseria meningitidis (Z2491) isolated into different serogroups on the substructure of the immunochemistry of their capsular polysaccharides; Serogroup A strains are in charge of pandemics of meningococcal illness, and in this manner dresriness and mortality connected with this infection . Our endeavour is to prognsticate the structure and function of uncharacterized proteins present in the genome of Neisseria meningitidis by the application of computational methods and Bioinformatics web tool. The probable function prognostication of the uncharacterized protein was done by utilizing Bioinformatics web implements like CDD-BLAST, INTERPROSCAN, PFAM and COGs by probing sequence databases for the presence of orthologous enzymatic conserved domains in the hypothetical sequences. While 3D structures were constructed utilizing PS2 Server (Protein Structure Prediction server). In this study investigate presences of enzymatic conserved domain in selected 200 uncharacterized proteins; s their function was unknown. These deciphered enzymatic information of uncharacterized proteins c might be used for the advance study of structural, functional, and evolutionary history of N. meningitidis and its life cycle.

141-144

Authors: Bhore JB | Dangat VT | Bonde SL | Borkar VT

The kinetic study for the bromination of the regioisomers of cresol in aqueous medium by molecular bromine has been carried out using the competition technique. These reactions are rapid and are found to be of the second order. The specific reaction rates determined at 26.0o C are 1.5 x 104, 3.0 x 104 and 50.0 x 104 M-1 s-1 for the ortho, para and meta isomers respectively. These values quantitatively justify the relative reactivity of these regioisomers in aqueous medium which has been qualitatively speculated hitherto for these rapid bromination reactions.

150-152

Authors: Lad Devdatta | Patil Shashikant

India has a long coastline of over 8000 Km with associated continental shelf of 0.5 million Km2 and an Exclusive Economic Zone of 2.04 Χ 106 Km2. Estuary is an integral part of the coastal environment. Estuaries have been the focal point of the maritime studies and activities. The health status and the biological diversity of the Indian estuarine ecosystem are deteriorating day by day through anthropogenic activities and dumping of enormous quantities of wastes. The present research work has been carried out to determine the status of soil along the estuarine area of Bhayander and Naigaon of Thane district. The soil along the estuarine area of Bhayander and Naigaon is silty in texture and the percentage of organic matter is more during monsoon and less during the post and pre monsoon period. Alkalinity is found to be less in monsoon and more during post and pre monsoon possibly due to washing away of the carbonates and bicarbonate substances by the rainwater. Similar condition is exhibited for Chlorides in the soil samples of both the stations. The percentage of organic matter in the soil sample of estuarine area of Bhayander and Naigaon was found to be high which indicates slight soil pollution in the estuarine area. This estuarine soil pollution may be because of dumping of religious refuges and also of wastes such as paper, household waste etc.

158-160

Authors: Kumari Shiv | Prakash Ila

Urban Air Quality Management in developing countries due to vehicular pollution causes significant impacts. Increased traffic especially in cities and the exhaust from the vehicles cause adverse effect on the health of the people. It also affects the vegetation growing near the traffic intersections. Among the various categories, air pollution by automobiles is the most insidious one, which exerts highly detrimental effects on living organisms. Ambient air pollution in several large cities of India is amongst some of the highest in the world. Present study deals with the observation made on Cassia occidentalis on different roadsides having heavy pollution load in comparison to control. The studies were made on Cassia occidentalis taken from Garh Road, Delhi Road, Railway Road, and University Road. Reduction in chlorophyll contents were found to be depends on pollution concentration. An increase significant reduction was observed at highly polluted sites due to high concentration of automobile pollution, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll content were reduced.