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Pr. Mamoudou H. DICKO, PhD

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Purification And Characterization Of Sweet Potato (Ipomoea Batatas) Peroxidase, Mamouna Diao, Brice N’Cho Ayékoué, Crépin I. Dibala, Soumaïla Dabonné, Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof. Jul 2014

Purification And Characterization Of Sweet Potato (Ipomoea Batatas) Peroxidase, Mamouna Diao, Brice N’Cho Ayékoué, Crépin I. Dibala, Soumaïla Dabonné, Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof.

Pr. Mamoudou H. DICKO, PhD

Peroxidase (POX), a biotechnologically important enzyme was purified from bulb of Ipomoea batatas and characterized for use in the bioconversion of phenolic compounds from industrial wastewater. Purified peroxidase (POXp) was obtained using the gel-filtration chromatography and anion exchange chromatography. A final yield of 18 % was obtained with 20.5 as purification fold. Electrophoresis on SDS-PAGE and native-PAGE showed that POXp is monomeric with a molecular weight of 44 kDa. The optimum pH and optimum temperature were respectively 6.0 and 45 ° C. All enzyme activity was retained for 2 hours at pH values between 4.0 to 9.0. While the enzyme …


An X-Linked Haplotype Of Neandertal Origin Is Present Among All Non-African Populations, Vania Yotova, Jean-Francois Lefebvre, Ambaliou Sanni, Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof., Rodney J. Scott, Damian Labuda Jul 2011

An X-Linked Haplotype Of Neandertal Origin Is Present Among All Non-African Populations, Vania Yotova, Jean-Francois Lefebvre, Ambaliou Sanni, Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof., Rodney J. Scott, Damian Labuda

Pr. Mamoudou H. DICKO, PhD

Recent work on the Neandertal genome has raised the possibility of admixture between Neandertals and the expanding population of Homo sapiens who left Africa between 80 and 50 Kya (thousand years ago) to colonize the rest of the world. Here, we provide evidence of a notable presence (9% overall) of a Neandertal-derived X chromosome segment among all contemporary human populations outside Africa. Our analysis of 6,092 X-chromosomes from all inhabited continents supports earlier contentions that a mosaic of lineages of different time depths and different geographic provenance could have contributed to the genetic constitution of modern humans. It indicates a …