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Open AccessRv2231c, a unique histidinol phosphate aminotransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, supports virulence by inhibiting host-directed defense
Nitrogen metabolism of M. tuberculosis is critical for its survival in infected host cells. M. tuberculosis has evolved sophisticated strategies to switch between de novo synthesis and uptake of various amino aci...
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Efficiency Assessment of TiO2-Based Photocatalytic Concrete for Clean and Sustainable Construction: A State-of-the-Art Review
Air pollution, driven by nitric oxide (NOx) and sulphur oxide (SOx) emissions from heavy traffic and industries, poses global environmental and public health challenges. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) in concrete, harne...
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PRKAA2, MTOR, and TFEB in the regulation of lysosomal damage response and autophagy
Lysosomes function as critical signaling hubs that govern essential enzyme complexes. LGALS proteins (LGALS3, LGALS8, and LGALS9) are integral to the endomembrane damage response. If ESCRT fails to rectify dam...
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Open AccessMultipronged regulation of autophagy and apoptosis: emerging role of TRIM proteins
TRIM proteins are characterized by their conserved N-terminal RING, B-box, and coiled-coil domains. These proteins are efficient regulators of autophagy, apoptosis, and innate immune responses and confer immun...
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Open Access46,XX males with SRY gene translocation: cytogenetics and molecular characterization
XX male syndrome also known as De la Chapelle syndrome/Testicular Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) is a rare genetic abnormality, identified by a partial or complete mismatch between phenotypic and genotypic ...
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Ensemble Machine Learning Models to Predict the Compressive Strength and Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity of Sustainable Concrete
Currently, the concrete sector is experiencing a massive problem in adapting to the concept of sustainable development since the manufacturing of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) emits about 8% of CO2, which is res...
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Performance of RCC Column Retrofitted with CFRP Wrap**s and the Wrap**s with Steel Angle-Batten Jacketing Under Blast Loading
Blasts and accidental explosions are being reported more frequently than before with grievous injuries and loss of lives and damage to the structure, increasing the concern of disaster management authority off...
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A Secure and Lightweight RFID-Enabled Protocol for IoT Healthcare Environment: A Vector Space Based Approach
Over some past decades, the data related to traditional medical privacy and many other similar cases are at serious risk of disclosure by a third party or an adversary. The risk of personal medical privacy dat...
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Open AccessNovel hybrid informational model for predicting the creep and shrinkage deflection of reinforced concrete beams containing GGBFS
This study investigates a Novel Hybrid Informational model for the prediction of creep and shrinkage deflection of reinforced concrete (RC) beams containing different percentages of ground granulated blast fur...
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Jacketing with steel angle sections and wide battens of RC column and its influence on blast performance
Occurrence of extreme loadings on the structure caused by man-made or accidental explosions is not uncommon. Such loadings jeopardize the safety/stability of structure if the key load-carrying member(s) are da...
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A vector-space-based lightweight RFID authentication protocol
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is becoming one of the best optimistic technology in the area of ubiquitous computing that plays the most crucial role in object identification as a ubiquitous infrastruct...
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Correction to: AnonSURP: an anonymous and secure ultralightweight RFID protocol for deployment in internet of vehicles systems
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AnonSURP: an anonymous and secure ultralightweight RFID protocol for deployment in internet of vehicles systems
With the rapid development in world-wide technologies affecting large-scale applications, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained a lot of attention from such applications. The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) techn...
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URASP: An ultralightweight RFID authentication scheme using permutation operation
Due to low-cost, ease of use and convenience, Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is a contactless technology that has become more and more promising for automatic identification of an object and people with...
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Comparative study of different thermal pretreatment techniques for accelerated methane production from rice straw
This study emphasizes the use of different thermal pretreatment methods (i.e., hot air oven, hot water bath, autoclave and microwave) on pretreatment of rice straw prior to anaerobic degradation. These pretrea...
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A novel vector-space-based lightweight privacy-preserving RFID authentication protocol for IoT environment
Internet of Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm that connects several physical devices and the cyber world over the Internet. IoT technology is growing rapidly and soon will have an enormous innovation in our dai...
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Emerging Transcriptomic Approaches to Decipher Mycobacterial Complexities
The word “transcriptome” generally refers to overall RNA species transcribed from DNA (or RNA itself) or transcripts that are present in a cell. The transcriptome includes messenger RNA (mRNA), ribosomal RNA (...
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Exploration of the Mycobacterial Proteome in the Pathogenesis of TB: A Perspective
Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) with a global burden of 10 million cases in 2019 causes morbidity and mortality if not treated. The constant rise in drug-resistant TB has further aggrava...
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Intrinsically Disordered Regions in PE/PPE Protein Family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Moonlighting Function
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, has the distinction of harboring an unusual set of plentiful antigens that are highly homologous. The abundance of similar proteins like PE/PPE tha...
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Open AccessThe global regulator Ncb2 escapes from the core promoter and impacts transcription in response to drug stress in Candida albicans
Ncb2, the β subunit of NC2 complex, a heterodimeric regulator of transcription was earlier shown to be involved in the activated transcription of CDR1 gene in azole resistant isolate (AR) of Candida albicans. Thi...
