Publications by authors named "Hidayatul A Zakaria"

Product warranty seals or stickers are criteria for after-sale warranty services. The unauthorized removal or modification of a seal will void the warranty. So far, there is no detection method to confirm the warranty, other than the visual inspection of the deformation of the seal.

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Hemorrhagic septicemia (HS) caused by B:2 and E:2 is among the fatal bacterial diseases in cattle and buffaloes that are economically valuable in Asian and African countries. The current work aims to study the prevalence of HS among buffaloes, cattle, sheep, and goats in 41 countries in 2005-2019. The data analysis revealed that 74.

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Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy were used to generate far-infrared and low-frequency spectral measurements of monomeric lysozyme and lysozyme fibrils. The formation of lysozyme fibrils was verified by the Thioflavin T assay and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). It was evident in the FT-IR spectra that between 150 and 350 cm(-1) the two spectra diverge, with the lysozyme fibrils showing higher absorbance intensity than the monomeric form.

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Far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopy in the spectral region of 50-450 cm(-1) was used to study a series of protein higher-order structures constructed using β-lactoglobulin and polyomavirus capsid protein VP1. There were marked differences in the spectra for β-lactoglobulin monomer and dimer and between untreated β-lactoglobulin and heat-induced gels formed at neutral pH. Untreated β-lactoglobulin and heat-induced gels formed at acidic pH exhibited little difference in their spectra.

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Article Synopsis
  • Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is demonstrated as a tool for differentiating soft protein microstructures, offering a non-destructive alternative to traditional optical imaging methods.
  • The study focuses on globular (beta-lactoglobulin) and fibrillar protein structures, which are significant to medical research due to their potential links to diseases like Alzheimer's.
  • Results indicate that the globular structures show reduced THz transmission compared to fibrillar structures, likely due to Rayleigh scattering effects.
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