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Diabetes Treatment with Sunshine

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Sujata Argawal presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Argawal, Sujata
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Noncatalytic chalcone isomerase-fold proteins in Humulus lupulus are auxiliary components in prenylated flavonoid biosynthesis (open access)

Noncatalytic chalcone isomerase-fold proteins in Humulus lupulus are auxiliary components in prenylated flavonoid biosynthesis

This article characterizes two noncatalytic chalcone isomerase (CHI)-like proteins using engineered yeast harboring all genes required for demethylxanthohumol (DMX) production.
Date: February 6, 2018
Creator: Ban, Zhaonan; Qin, Hao; Mitchell, Andrew J.; Liu, Baoxiu; Zhang, Fengxia; Weng, Jing-Ke et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agronomic Performance and Lignin Content of HCT Down-Regulated Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) (open access)

Agronomic Performance and Lignin Content of HCT Down-Regulated Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

This article evaluates HCT down-regulated alfalfa plants for their forage composition and agronomic performance in the greenhouse and under field conditions.
Date: May 5, 2018
Creator: Bhattarai, Kishor; Rajasekar, Shanmugam; Dixon, R. A. & Monteros, Maria J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developmental phenotypic plasticity helps bridge stochastic weather events associated with climate change

This article posits that the frequently abrupt environmental changes accompanying much longer-term general climate change require consideration of the true nature of environmental change coupled with an expansion of focus to consider developmental phenotypic plasticity.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance (open access)

Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance

This article studies the marketing practices of predatory journals through the analysis of a a subset of the 1,816 e-mails received by a single university biology faculty member during a 24-month period.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Madasu, Dilip; Hawkins, Kevin S. & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america (open access)

Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america

Article discusses the importance of valuing an alternative, ecological, aesthetic and post-modern-exotic hermeneutic in viewing Latin America, and discusses the colonial impression of a "exotic" Latin America.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Castellanos, Angelina Paredes & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Local and Systemic Metabolic Responses during Light-Induced Rapid Systemic Signaling (open access)

Local and Systemic Metabolic Responses during Light-Induced Rapid Systemic Signaling

This article reports that local application of light stress to one rosette leaf of bolting Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants resulted in a metabolic response that encompassed local, systemic and transport tissues, demonstrating a high degree of physical and metabolic continuity between different tissues throughout the plant.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Choudhury, Feroza K.; Devireddy, Amith R.; Azad, Rajeev K.; Shulaev, Vladimir & Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond the wall: High-throughput quantification of plant soluble and cell-wall bound phenolics by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (open access)

Beyond the wall: High-throughput quantification of plant soluble and cell-wall bound phenolics by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

Article describes a study in which a novel high-throughput ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS/MS) method was established to quantify the levels of 19 flavonoids and 15 other phenolic compounds, including acids, aldehydes, and alcohols.
Date: December 26, 2018
Creator: Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Casas, Maria Isabel; Yang, Fan & Grotewold, Erich
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peptide signaling molecules CLE5 and CLE6 affect Arabidopsis leaf shape downstream of leaf patterning transcription factors and auxin (open access)

Peptide signaling molecules CLE5 and CLE6 affect Arabidopsis leaf shape downstream of leaf patterning transcription factors and auxin

Article describes a role in Arabidopsis leaf development for two members of the CLAVATA3/ESR‐RELATED peptide family, CLE5 and CLE6, which lie adjacent to each other on chromosome 2.
Date: December 20, 2018
Creator: DiGennaro, Peter; Grienenberger, Etienne; Dao, Thai Q.; Jun, Ji Hyung & Fletcher, Jennifer C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon (open access)

A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon

This article proposes a dynamic mathematical model that integrates various datasets and other information regarding the lignin pathway in Brachypodium distachyon and permits explanations for some counterintuitive observations.
Date: September 19, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mathematical Models of Lignin Biosynthesis (open access)

Mathematical Models of Lignin Biosynthesis

This article presents several computational models that can aid in the analysis of data characterizing lignin biosynthesis.
Date: February 9, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon (open access)

A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon

Article proposes a dynamic mathematical model that integrates various datasets and other information regarding the lignin pathway in Brachypodium distachyon and permits explanations for some counterintuitive observations.
Date: September 19, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros-Rios, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mathematical models of lignin biosynthesis (open access)

Mathematical models of lignin biosynthesis

Article presents several computational models than can aid in the analysis of data characterizing lignin biosynthesis.
Date: February 9, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros-Rios, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gold Nanoparticles-enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa Cells (open access)

Gold Nanoparticles-enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa Cells

This article describes a facile one-step method to synthesize stable collodial gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) loaded with a combination of two anticancer therapeutics, -bleomycin and doxorubicin
Date: September 20, 2017
Creator: Farooq, Muhammad U.; Novosad, Valentyn; Rozhkova, Elena A.; Wali, Hussain; Ali, Asghar; Fateh, Ahmed A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of chronic exposure to 12‰ saltwater on the endocrine physiology of juvenile American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) (open access)

Effects of chronic exposure to 12‰ saltwater on the endocrine physiology of juvenile American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Article describes experiment in which juvenile alligators were exposed to 12‰ saltwater for 5 weeks to determine the effects of chronic exposure to saline environments.
Date: July 30, 2018
Creator: Faulkner, P. C.; Burleson, Mark L.; Simonitis, L.; Marshall, C.D.; Hala, D. & Petersen, L. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eight Genome Sequences of Cluster BE1 Phages That Infect Streptomyces Species (open access)

Eight Genome Sequences of Cluster BE1 Phages That Infect Streptomyces Species

This article reports eight newly isolated Streptomyces bacteriophages recovered using either direct plating or enrichment on three Streptomyces hosts.
Date: January 11, 2018
Creator: Hughes, Lee E.; Shaffer, Christopher D.; Ware, Vassie C.; Aguayo, Issac; Aziz, Rahat M.; Bhuiyan, Swapan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specialized impulse conduction pathway in the alligator heart (open access)

Specialized impulse conduction pathway in the alligator heart

Article describes a study which examines the conduction system in crocodiles (Alligator mississippiensis), the only ectothermic vertebrates with a full ventricular septum.
Date: March 22, 2018
Creator: Jensen, Bjarke; Boukens, Bastiaan J; Crossley, Dane A., II; Conner, Justin; Mohan, Rajiv A.; van Duijvenboden, Karel et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Unique Fold and Lability of the [2fe‑2s] Clusters of Neet Proteins Mediate Their Key Functions in Health and Disease (open access)

The Unique Fold and Lability of the [2fe‑2s] Clusters of Neet Proteins Mediate Their Key Functions in Health and Disease

This article discusses the NEET fold and its structural elements.
Date: February 12, 2018
Creator: Karmi, Ola; Marjault, Henri-Baptiste; Pesce, Luca; Carloni, Paolo; Onuchic, José N.; Jennings, Patricia A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The cisd gene family regulates physiological germline apoptosis through ced-13 and the canonical cell death pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans (open access)

The cisd gene family regulates physiological germline apoptosis through ced-13 and the canonical cell death pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

This article examines how the disruption of the cisd-1 gene function, using RNA interference (RNAi), or mutant alleles [cisd-1(tm4993) deletion mutant, cisd-1(pnIs27) insertion mutant] led to germline abnormalities including an increase in the number of cell corpses and distal tip cell migration defects.
Date: April 17, 2018
Creator: King, Skylar D.; Gray, Chipo F.; Song, Luhua; Nechushtai, Rachel; Gumienny, Tina L; Mittler, Ron et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complete Genome Sequences of 44 Arthrobacter Phages (open access)

Complete Genome Sequences of 44 Arthrobacter Phages

This article reports the complete genome sequences of 44 phages infecting Arthrobacter sp. strain ATCC 21022.
Date: February 1, 2018
Creator: Klyczek, Karen; Jacobs-Sera, Deborah; Adair, Tamarah; Adams, Sandra D.; Ball, Sarah; Benjamin, Robert C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network (open access)

Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network

This article proposes that the integration of these signals is mediated through pulses of gene expression that are coordinated through out the plant in a systemic manner by the ROS/Ca⁺² waves.
Date: November 3, 2018
Creator: Kollist, Hannes; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Nuhkat, Maris; Kangasjärvi, Jaakko & Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization (open access)

An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization

This article describes the ideal nature of the Catechyl lignin (C-lignin) via a revised compositional characterization of the vanilla seed coat fiber, new features of the C-lignin's reactivity and stability, and successful attempts at converting it to monomers in near-quantitative yields.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Li, Yanding; Shuai, Li; Kim, Hoon; Hussain Motagamwala, Ali; Mobley, Justin K.; Yue, Fengxia et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) promoters for green tissue‑specific expression of the MYB4 transcription factor for reduced‑recalcitrance transgenic switchgrass (open access)

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) promoters for green tissue‑specific expression of the MYB4 transcription factor for reduced‑recalcitrance transgenic switchgrass

This article describes the identification and functional characterization of three switchgrass green tissue-specific promoters in endogenous plant tissues as well as in transgenic rice.
Date: December 1, 2017
Creator: Liu, Wusheng; Mazarei, Mitra; Ye, Rongjian; Peng, Yanhui; Shao, Yuanhua; Baxter, Holly L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genome Mining of Plant NPFs Reveals Varying Conservation of Signature Motifs Associated With the Mechanism of Transport (open access)

Genome Mining of Plant NPFs Reveals Varying Conservation of Signature Motifs Associated With the Mechanism of Transport

This article focuses on four structural features of nitrate peptide families/proton-coupled oligopeptide transporters/peptide transporters that have been shown by structural and functional studies to be essential to proton-coupled symport transport.
Date: December 4, 2018
Creator: Longo, Antonella; Miles, Nicholas W. & Dickstein, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library