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Integration of Proteomic and Bioinformatics Analysis to Understand the Plants Responses to Humic Substances

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Roomi, Sohaib

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PhD

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COMSATS University Islamabad

City

Islamabad

Province

Islamabad.

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2019

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Bio sciences

Language

English

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http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/bitstream/123456789/11647/1/Sohaib%20Roomi%20PhD%20Thesis_310719%20PRR.pdf

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Humic substances (HS) are heterogeneous organic compounds well known for stimulation of plant growth and development. The current study was designed to get insights about the physiological and metabolic processes induced by HS. Arabidopsis plants, grown hydroponically for 28 days on controlled conditions, were treated with HS at 1 mg C/L solution for 8 hours. iTRAQ (Isobaric Tag for Relative and Absolute Quantification) coupled LCMS (liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry) of HS vs control roots resulted in identification of 902 proteins species. 92 proteins showed significantly differential expression pattern (p-value ≤ 0.05) with a fold change of ≥1.3 for up regulated and ≤-1.3 for down-regulated proteins. Bioinformatic tools such as GeneCodis3, KEGG, STRING, IIS and Cytoscape were applied to comprehend the biological processes, molecular functions and pathways most targeted and the interaction networks amongst the identified proteins. Functional characterization and pathway analysis classified the identified proteins into different functional categories including response to inorganic substances, redox homeostasis, energy metabolism, cell trafficking and division. Many proteins related to protein synthesis, processing and translocation were also differentially expressed under HS application, for example, HSP70s, BiP2, PDIs and PABs. Three proteins, DPP6 N-terminal domain-like protein, patellin-2 and aspartyl protease family protein showed highest expression of 2.3 foldchange while germin-like protein subfamily 1 member 17 (GLP1-17) and cysteine proteinase RD19a revealed the lowest expression of -2.2 fold-change. The proteinprotein interaction (PPI) analysis generated a complex network consisting of seven significant modules. The main module contains 90 different proteins mainly associated with translation and biosynthetic pathways. Centrality analysis of the network identified topoisomerase II (Top II) as the most enriched hub/and bottleneck protein of the network. The enhancement of protein ubiquitination and stimulation of redox homeostasis and secondary metabolic pathways may explain the stimulation of signaling pathways and augmented growth of plants treated with humic substances. The xii DEPs identified in recent proteomic study may give some clues about the targets of HS and act as a podium for future study but more researches both at molecular and physiological levels should be done for find out of the HS metabolic target. The results of our in-silico promoter analysis of HS responsive promoter coding genes (HSRPGs) coincides with the proteomic study via linking the most enriched cis-acting regulatory (CREs) with stress, hormones, growth and developments. These results highlight the understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved in HS-plant interactions.
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 حصلت الشاعرۃ علی قصیدۃ حرۃ منشورہ للشاعر بدیع حقی وذلک قبل صدور قصیدتھا وقصیدۃ بدر السیاب، وهذا مقطع من قصیدۃ بدیع حقي:

 

أي نسمۃ۔
حلوۃ الخفق علیلۃ۔
تمسح الأوراق في لین ورحمۃ۔
تھرق الرعشۃ في طیبات نغمۃ
وأنا في الغاب أبکي۔
أملاً ضاع وحلماً ومواعید ظلیلۃ۔
والمنى قد ھربت من صفرۃ الغصن النحیلۃ۔
فا نمحى النور وھام الظلّ یحکي

بعض وسواسي وأوھامي البخیلۃ[1]۔

 وذکرت نازک عن الباحث الدکتور أحمد مطلوب بأنہ أورد في کتابہ "النقد الحدیث في العراق"، وقد حصل علی أقدم قصیدۃ في الشعر الحر المعنونۃ ’’بعد موتي‘‘ المنشورۃ في جریدۃ العراق سنۃ 1921م تحت عنوان ’’النظم الطلیق‘‘ ولکن لم یذکر الشاعر اسمُہ بل رمز لاسمہ (ب۔ن)، ویدل ذلک علی أن ھناک محاولات ومباحثات حول الشعر الحر ، ودارت مناقشات بین النقاد والدارسین حول الأسبقیۃ الزمنیۃ في نظم الشعر الحر: أي القصیدتين سبقت الأخری، ھل کانت قصیدۃ ’’الکولیرا‘‘ لنازک أم قصیدۃ ’’ھل کان حباً؟‘‘ لبدر شاکر السیاب، وإلی من ترجع الریادۃ (ریادۃ الشعر الحر)؟

 وقد اعترفت نازک، بأن المسألۃ لیست مصادفۃ، إذا ھو مشروع ثقافي وإبداع کامل المحکم بالوعي والإرادۃ[2]. وتقول أیضاً بأن الریادۃ لم تکن لھؤلاء الشعراء الذین نظموا قصیدۃ واحدۃ او اثنین وعادوا إلی أسلوب الشطرین۔

وتعتقد نازک بأنّھا لو لم تبدأ ھي حرکۃ الشعر الحر، لبدأھا بدر شاکر السیاب، ولو لم یبدأھا بدر السیاب لبدأھا شاعر عربي آخر غیرہ، لأن في تلک السنین أصبح العصر یقبل الشکل الجدید ویرحب بکل ما ھو حدیث. ویتضح من المناقشات السابقۃ أن نازک الملائکۃ ھي ’’ رائدۃ الشعر الحر ‘‘ ۔

 

 



Status of Women in Islam and its Impact on Pashtun Society in Present Times

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Growing Trend of Drug Abuse and Misuse and its Impact on Society: A Case Study of Hyderabad City

Drug abuse is the consumption of drug apart from medical need or use, in unnecessary or in excessive quantities. Drug misuse is the use of drugs for the purpose or conditions for which they are not suitable choice or even if they are suitable choice but used in improper dosage. The menace of drug misuse and abuse is increasing globally day by day and Hyderabad being one of the largest cities of Pakistan is experiencing this practice widely. Psychoactive drugs, sedatives, hypnotics, antibiotics, multivitamins, laxatives, heavy tonics, steroids, antacids, cough syrups and analgesics etc, are commonly misused and abused in our society. Among these psychoactive agents and antibiotics are the most frequently misused and abused drugs. Psychoactive agents have great potential for physiological and psychological addiction; hence the users continuously use them to cope the situation of anxiety, insomnia, depression and pain. It has been observed that repeated use of such agents creates tolerance, which leads to frequent increase in dose of the drug. On other hand, misuse of antibiotics leads to microbial resistance ultimately leading to decreased efficiency of the drug in particular family or community. Self medication and over medication have become the norm. Self medication is risky and highly unsafe and at times dangerous too, it leads to misuse and abuse as well. Non-medically qualified people (Quacks / Store keepers) are not able to judge the correct use of medication or determine the dose, nor are they aware of the risks involved in drug misuse and abuse. It is because all the drugs which are available in market have great potential to be misused and abused. 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A prescribing error occurs as a result of a prescribing decision or during prescription writing process. Prescription writing skills / instructions should be according to the WHO guidelines which suggest giving the medicine to the patients in the proper manner by Pharmacist / dispenser / storing keeper. Many countries have adopted WHO guideline for the prescription in their health care system. The Pharmacist is the person professionally equipped with knowledge to understand all the drawbacks / complications of drug abuse and misuse and its harmful impacts on health of people. The objectives of this study are to explore the causes of drug misuse, abuse and their contributing factors in Hyderabad city. The survey study was conducted in different main targeted areas of Hyderabad city. A questionnaire and analysis sheets were designed with the study objectives. W.H.O parameters (World Health Organization Guidelines / Standards) for prescriptions writings , Drug information hand book (Lexi-comp) and BNF (British National formulary) were used for evaluation of proper dose of dosage form and drug-drug interaction. Ms-Office 2007 and Statistical tools such as Mean, Standard Deviation, Cumulative Frequencies, Relative Frequencies, Chi square test, Z test, ANOVA, Regression Analysis, and Graphical Representation of data have been applied through the Statistical package SPSS17.0. Trend of sales at medical stores in Hyderabad city shows that sale with prescription is 41.6% and without prescription is 58.4%. It reflects easy availability of drugs on large scale without prescription whereas on other side 49.4% of patients/customers were even not asked about availability of doctors’ prescription by medical store keeper. Among the interviewed customers/patients male (62.4%) and female (37.6%) responded positively. It was observed that 29.1% patients/customers were between 31–45years ages. Maximum patients/customers without prescription (13.7%) were found in Pretabad, Hyderabad, on other hand maximum patients/customers with prescription (8.6%) were found in Saddar, Hyderabad, respectively. The available prescriptions (41.6%) were evaluated and categorized in four types. As Specialist prescriptions (56.4%), General practitioner prescriptions (19.8%), Hospital /Medical center prescriptions (15.7%) and prescriptions without name and vaddress of doctor (8.1%); this includes non qualified persons/quacks as well. As the prescription error factor in drug misuse was considered the error was 30.6% in all prescriptions categories, whereas maximum errors were found in the prescriptions, which were without name and address of prescribers. Collectively 8.3% prescriptions were found very old and 11.8% were without date of generation of prescription. 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