Flocculation-Related Gene Identification by Whole-Genome Sequencing of Thauera aminoaromatica MZ1T Floc-Defective Mutants (open access)

Flocculation-Related Gene Identification by Whole-Genome Sequencing of Thauera aminoaromatica MZ1T Floc-Defective Mutants

This article discusses the identification of genes responsible for bacterial flocculation using a whole-genome phenotypic-sequencing technique.
Date: December 28, 2015
Creator: Prombutara, P. & Allen, Michael S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Loss of function of folylpolyglutamate synthetase 1 reduces lignin content and improves cell wall digestibility in Arabidopsis (open access)

Loss of function of folylpolyglutamate synthetase 1 reduces lignin content and improves cell wall digestibility in Arabidopsis

This article observes genetic and biochemical support for the importance of folylpolyglutamates in the lignocellulosic pathway and reinforces previous observations that targeting a single FPGS isoform for down-regulation leads to reduced lignin in plants.
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Srivastava, Avinash C.; Chen, Fang; Ray, Tui; Pattahil, Sivakumar; Peña, Maria J.; Avci, Utku et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding Water-Stress Responses in Soybean Using Hydroponics System - A Systems Biology Perspective (open access)

Understanding Water-Stress Responses in Soybean Using Hydroponics System - A Systems Biology Perspective

This article discusses using a system of reduced complexity like hydroponics to identify the potential candidates for water-stress tolerance by plants.
Date: December 21, 2015
Creator: Tripathi, Prateek; Rabara, Roel C.; Shulaev, Vladimir; Shen, Qingxi J. & Rushton, Paul J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Cooperation within Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences and Physiology (open access)

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Cooperation within Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences and Physiology

This article makes the argument for interdisciplinary teams that bring together scientists with different specialties as an efficient way--and perhaps the only way--to unravel highly complex biological effects of marine oil spills.
Date: December 17, 2015
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Dubansky, Benjamin; Roberts, Aaron & Alloy, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative cell-specific transcriptomics reveals differentiation of C₄ photosynthesis pathways in switchgrass and other C₄ lineages (open access)

Comparative cell-specific transcriptomics reveals differentiation of C₄ photosynthesis pathways in switchgrass and other C₄ lineages

This article provides an mesophyll and bundle sheath cell type-specific transcriptome data set from the monocot NAD-malic enzyme subtype switchgrass (Panicum virgatum).
Date: December 10, 2015
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan; Lu, Nan; Li, Guifen; Nakashima, Jin; Tang, Yuhong & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salt Sensitivity of the Morphometry of Artemia Franciscana During Development: A Demonstration of 3d Critical Windows (open access)

Salt Sensitivity of the Morphometry of Artemia Franciscana During Development: A Demonstration of 3d Critical Windows

This article uses a 3D conceptual farmework of 'critical windows' to examine whether the morphometry of Artemia franciscana is altered by salinity exposure during certain key periods of development.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: Mueller, Casey A.; Willis, Eric & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
C. Elegans and Mutants With Chronic Nicotine Exposure as a Novel Model of Cancer Phenotype (open access)

C. Elegans and Mutants With Chronic Nicotine Exposure as a Novel Model of Cancer Phenotype

This article provides evidence in support of C. elegans as initial in vivo model to study nicotine and its effects on oncogenic mutations identified in humans.
Date: November 17, 2015
Creator: Kanteti, Rajani; Dhanasingh, Immanuel; El-Hashani, Essam; Riehm, Jacob J.; Stricker, Thomas; Nagy, Stanislav et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Activation of apoptosis in NAF-1-deficient human epithelial breast cancer cells (open access)

Activation of apoptosis in NAF-1-deficient human epithelial breast cancer cells

This article shows that small hairpin RNA-mediated suppresion of NAF-1 results in the activation of apoptosis in epithelial breast cancer cells and xenograft tumors.
Date: November 11, 2015
Creator: Holt, Sarah H.; Darash-Yahana, Merav; Sohn, Yang Sung; Song, Luhua; Karmi, Ola; Tamir, Sagi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystal structure of (3E,5E)-3,5-bis[4-(diethylazaniumyl)benzylidene]-1-methyl-4-oxopiperidin-1-ium trichloride dihydrate: a potential biophotonic material (open access)

Crystal structure of (3E,5E)-3,5-bis[4-(diethylazaniumyl)benzylidene]-1-methyl-4-oxopiperidin-1-ium trichloride dihydrate: a potential biophotonic material

This article describes the crystal structure of the title compound, and examines application as an agent for locating cancer cells with two-photon excited fluorescence as as a potential agent for a photodynamic treatment of cancer. This article includes supporting information with computing details of the study.
Date: November 4, 2015
Creator: Nesterov, Volodymyr V.; Zakharov, Lev N.; Nesterov, Vladimir N. & Shulaev, Vladimir
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing interval estimates for small sample ordinal CFA models (open access)

Comparing interval estimates for small sample ordinal CFA models

This article compares Bayesian, Robust maximum likelihood, and asymptotically generalized least squares interval estimates of factor correlations in ordinal confirmatory factor analysis models for small sample data.
Date: October 30, 2015
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeting the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in gastric carcinoma: A reality for personalized medicine? (open access)

Targeting the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in gastric carcinoma: A reality for personalized medicine?

Article reviews the common dysregulation of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinases (PI3K)/Akt/mTOR pathway in gastric cancer (GC) and the various types of single or dual pathway inhibitors under development that might have a superior role in GC treatment.
Date: October 26, 2015
Creator: Singh, Shikha Satendra; Yap, Wei Ney; Arfuso, Frank; Kar, Shreya; Wang, Chao; Cai, Wanpei et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Viperatoxin-Ii: A Novel Viper Venom Protein as an Effective Bactericidal Agent (open access)

Viperatoxin-Ii: A Novel Viper Venom Protein as an Effective Bactericidal Agent

This article discusses purification and characterization of proteins from Indian Russell's viper snake venom.
Date: October 14, 2015
Creator: Samy, Ramar Perumal; Stiles, Bradley G.; Chinnathambi, Arunachalam; Zayed, M.E.; Ali Alharbi, Sulaiman; Franco, Octávio Luiz et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cancer-Related NEET Proteins Transfer 2Fe-2S Clusters to Anamorsin, a Protein Required for Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis (open access)

Cancer-Related NEET Proteins Transfer 2Fe-2S Clusters to Anamorsin, a Protein Required for Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis

This article reports the first physiological 2Fe-2S cluster acceptor for both NEET proteins as human Anamorsin (also known as cytokine induced apoptosis inhibitor-1; CIAPIN-1).
Date: October 8, 2015
Creator: Lipper, Colin H.; Paddock, Mark L.; Onuchic, José N.; Mittler, Ron; Nechushtai, Rachel & Jennings, Patricia A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complete Genome Sequence of a Cyanotroph, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764, Employing Single-Molecule Real-Time Technology (open access)

Complete Genome Sequence of a Cyanotroph, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764, Employing Single-Molecule Real-Time Technology

This article reports the application of single-molecule real-time sequencing for determining the entire genome structure of the cyanotroph Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764.
Date: October 1, 2015
Creator: Jones, Lauren B. & Kunz, Daniel A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants (open access)

Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants

This article contains RNA sequencing analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana plants subjected to light stress in order to identify and characterize rapid changes in the steady-state level of different transcripts in response to light stress.
Date: September 26, 2015
Creator: Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Devireddy, Amith R.; Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Baxter, Aaron; Miller, Gad; Song, Luhua et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational inference of the structure and regulation of the lignin pathway in Panicum virgatum (open access)

Computational inference of the structure and regulation of the lignin pathway in Panicum virgatum

This article uses a systems biological modeling approach to address the challenge of in vivo measurements to elucidate the structure and regulation of the lignin pathway through a computational characterization of alternate candidate topologies.
Date: September 17, 2015
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Dixon, R. A. & Voit, Eberhard O.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipidomic Analysis of Endocannabinoid Signaling: Targeted Metabolite Identification and Quantification (open access)

Lipidomic Analysis of Endocannabinoid Signaling: Targeted Metabolite Identification and Quantification

This article reviews several methodologies to quantify endocannabinoids in various biological systems.
Date: September 9, 2015
Creator: Keereetaweep, Jantana & Chapman, Kent D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tissue biodistribution of intravenously administrated titanium dioxide nanoparticles revealed blood-brain barrier clearance and brain inflammation in rat (open access)

Tissue biodistribution of intravenously administrated titanium dioxide nanoparticles revealed blood-brain barrier clearance and brain inflammation in rat

This article reports time-related responses from single-dose intravenous administration of 1 mg/kg Ti₂ NPs to rats, with particular emphasis on titanium quantification in the brain.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Disdier, Clémence; Devoy, Jérôme; Cosnefroy, Anne; Chalansonnet, Monique; Herlin-Boime, Nathalie; Brun, Emilie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis (open access)

Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis

This article discusses validation of the potential of an extraction and characterization approach via application to ancient bone proteins, as part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of protein residues from cooking pottery.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Barker, Andrew; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Chaput, Dale; Venables, Barney J.; Wolverton, Steven J. & Stevens, Stanley M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Draft Genome Sequence of a Bacillus Bacterium from the Atacama Desert Wetlands Metagenome (open access)

Draft Genome Sequence of a Bacillus Bacterium from the Atacama Desert Wetlands Metagenome

This article reports the draft genome sequence of a Bacillus bacterium isolated from the microflora of Nostoc colonies grown at the Andean wetlands in northern Chile.
Date: August 20, 2015
Creator: Vilo, Claudia A.; Galetovic, Alexandra; Araya, Jorge E.; Gómez-Silva, Benito & Dong, Qunfeng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of laboratory-based terrestrial bioaccumulation assessment approaches for organic chemicals: Current status and future possibilities (open access)

Review of laboratory-based terrestrial bioaccumulation assessment approaches for organic chemicals: Current status and future possibilities

Article discusses the state of the science and existing shortcomings in terrestrial bioaccumulation assessment of neutral organic chemicals.
Date: August 13, 2015
Creator: Hoke, Robert; Huggett, Duane B.; Brasfield, Sandra; Brown, Becky; Embry, Michelle; Fairbrother, Anne et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Role of a chalcone isomerase-like protein in flavonoid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana (open access)

Role of a chalcone isomerase-like protein in flavonoid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

This article identifies two chil mutants with a seed colour similar to that of wild-type Arabidopsis, but in sharp contrast to the characteristic transparent testa seed phenotype associated with other known flavonoid pathway genes.
Date: August 13, 2015
Creator: Jiang, Wenbo; Yin, Qinggang; Wu, Ranran; Zheng, Guangshun; Liu, Jinyue; Dixon, R. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Localization of polyhydroxybutyrate in sugarcane using Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy and multivariate imaging (open access)

Localization of polyhydroxybutyrate in sugarcane using Fourier-transform infrared microspectroscopy and multivariate imaging

This article demonstrates the power of infrared microspectroscopy to rapidly image plan sections to provide a snapshot of the chemical composition of the cell.
Date: July 10, 2015
Creator: Lupoi, Jason S.; Smith-Mortiz, Andreia; Singh, Seema; McQualter, Richard B.; Scheller, Henrik V.; Simmons, Blake A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tobacco Drought Stress Responses Reveal New Targets for Solanaceae Crop Improvement (open access)

Tobacco Drought Stress Responses Reveal New Targets for Solanaceae Crop Improvement

This article proposes components of a core metabolic response to drought stress in plants and shows that some major responses to drought stress at the metabolome and transcriptome levels are family specific.
Date: June 30, 2015
Creator: Rabara, Roel C.; Tripathi, Prateek & Reese, R. Neil
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library