Structural trends and itinerant magnetism of the new cage-structured compound HfMnZn.

A new cage-structured compound-HfMnZn-belonging to the(= transition or rare earth metals, and= Al, Zn, or Cd) family of structures has been synthesized via the self-flux method. The new compound crystallizes in the space groupFd3¯mwith lattice parameter≈ 14.0543(2) Å (= 8) and exhibits non-stoichiometry due to Mn/Zn mixing on the Mn-site and an underoccupied Hf-site.

Molecular Characterization, Structural Modeling, and Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity of Basrai Thaumatin-Like Protein against Fungal Infection.

A thaumatin-like protein gene from Basrai banana was cloned and expressed in . Amplified gene product was cloned into pTZ57R/T vector and subcloned into expression vector pET22b(+) and resulting pET22b-basrai TLP construct was introduced into BL21. Maximum protein expression was obtained at 0.

A general class of derivative free optimal root finding methods based on rational interpolation.

We construct a new general class of derivative free n-point iterative methods of optimal order of convergence 2 (n-1) using rational interpolant. The special cases of this class are obtained. These methods do not need Newton's iterate in the first step of their iterative schemes.

Biochemical characterization of fruit-specific pathogenesis-related antifungal protein from basrai banana.

Pathogenesis-related/thaumatin like (PR-5/TL) antifungal protein from basrai banana was purified by using a simple protocol consisting of ammonium sulphate precipitation, affinity chromatography (Affi-gel blue gel), Q-Sepharose chromatography and gel filtration on Sephadex G-75. The purified protein with acidic character (pI 6.67) has molecular weight of 21.