In-silico docking based design and synthesis of [1H,3H] imidazo[4,5-b] pyridines as lumazine synthase inhibitors for their effective antimicrobial activity.

Purpose: The imidazopyridine moiety is important pharmacophore that has proven to be useful for a number of biologically relevant targets, also reported to display antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral properties. Riboflavin biosynthesis involving catalytic step of Lumazine synthase is absent in animals and human, but present in microorganism, one of marked advantage of this study. Still, this path is not exploited as antiinfective target.

Proteasome inhibitors mechanism; source for design of newer therapeutic agents.

The proteasome was first identified as a high MW protease complex that gets resolved into a series of low MW protein species upon denaturation. As the dominant protease dedicated to protein turnover, the proteasome shapes the cellular protein repertoire. Our knowledge of proteasome regulation and activity has improved considerably over the past decade.

Purification and partial characterization of thermostable serine alkaline protease from a newly isolated Bacillus species HSRB08 from hotspring.

The purpose of the research was to study the purification and partial characterization of thermostable serine alkaline protease from a newly isolated Bacillus species HSRB08, which was isolated from hotspring. The enzyme was purified in a 2-step procedure involving ammonium sulfate precipitation and Sephadex G-200 chromatography. The enzyme was shown to have molecular weight of 66 kD by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and Gelatin Zymogram and was purified 15.