Multifeature analyses of vascular cambial cells reveal longevity mechanisms in old Ginkgo biloba trees (open access)

Multifeature analyses of vascular cambial cells reveal longevity mechanisms in old Ginkgo biloba trees

This article investigates age-related changes in Ginkgo biloba trees to learn more about the molecular and metabolic mechanisms underlying their longevity. The results revealed that long-lived trees have evolved compensatory mechanisms to maintain a balance between growth and aging processes.
Date: January 13, 2020
Creator: Wang, Li; Cui, Jiawen; Jin, Biao; Zhao, Jiangou; Xu, Huimin; Lu, Zhaogeng et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Weakly Aligned Molecules: From Molecular Detectors to Room-Temperature Tunable Masers (open access)

Weakly Aligned Molecules: From Molecular Detectors to Room-Temperature Tunable Masers

Conference proceeding presenting a new mechanism of manipulation of population in molecular rotational levels in a weakly aligned molecules. Originally presented as an invited talk at the 29th International Laser Physics Workshop held July 19-23, 2021.
Date: July 23, 2021
Creator: Roy, Colin D.; Branković, Zorica & Rostovtsev, Yuri V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abraham Model Descriptors for Melatonin; Prediction of Solution, Biological and Thermodynamic Properties (open access)

Abraham Model Descriptors for Melatonin; Prediction of Solution, Biological and Thermodynamic Properties

Article using literature solubilities to obtain properties or descriptors of melatonin.
Date: January 27, 2022
Creator: Liu, Xiangli; Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Assembly-Directed Organization of a Fullerene–Bisporphyrin into Supramolecular Giant Donut Structures for Excited-State Charge Stabilization (open access)

Self-Assembly-Directed Organization of a Fullerene–Bisporphyrin into Supramolecular Giant Donut Structures for Excited-State Charge Stabilization

This article creates a well-defined architecture for functional materials composed of spontaneously self-assembled electron donor and acceptor entities capable of generating long-lived charge-separated states upon photoillumination and reports the synthesis of a new fullerene–bis-Zn-porphyrin e-bisadduct by tether-directed functionalization of C60 via a multistep synthetic protocol.
Date: July 14, 2021
Creator: Caballero, Rubén; Barrejón, Myriam; Cerdá, Jesús; Aragó, Juan; Seetharaman, Sairaman; de la Cruz, Pilar et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Examination of Possible Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding Using Calculated Solute Descriptors (open access)

Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Examination of Possible Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding Using Calculated Solute Descriptors

This article calculates Abraham model solute descriptors using published solubility data for 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid dissolved in several organic solvents of varying polarity and hydrogen-bonding character.
Date: July 24, 2022
Creator: Sinha, Sneha; Yang, Chelsea; Wu, Emily & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Calculation of L Solute Descriptors for Large C11 to C42 Methylated Alkanes from Measured Gas–Liquid Chromatographic Retention Data (open access)

Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Calculation of L Solute Descriptors for Large C11 to C42 Methylated Alkanes from Measured Gas–Liquid Chromatographic Retention Data

This article determines Abraham model L solute descriptors for 149 additional C11 to C42 monomethylated and polymethylated alkanes based on published Kovat’s retention indices based upon gas–liquid chromatographic measurements.
Date: July 5, 2022
Creator: Wu, Emily; Sinha, Sneha; Yang, Chelsea; Zhang, Miles & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anisotropic Optical Properties of 2D Silicon Telluride (open access)

Anisotropic Optical Properties of 2D Silicon Telluride

Article reports an ab initio computational study of the optical dielectric properties of Silicon telluride (Si2Te3) using the GW approximation and the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE).
Date: September 27, 2020
Creator: Cui, Jingbiao; Bhattarai, Romakanta; Chen, Jiyang; Hoang, Thang B. & Shen, Xiao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Quantification of ¹³C-Labeling in Sugars (open access)

Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Quantification of ¹³C-Labeling in Sugars

This article describes a new methodology for monitoring sucrose labeling using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). To date, the most commonly used method to monitor sucrose labeling is by nuclear magnetic resonance, which requires substantial amounts of biological sample.
Date: January 10, 2020
Creator: Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Ross, Zacchary & Alonso, Ana P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Opposing effects of MYZUS PERSICAE-INDUCED LIPASE 1 and jasmonic acid influence the outcome of Arabidopsis thaliana–Fusarium graminearum interaction (open access)

Opposing effects of MYZUS PERSICAE-INDUCED LIPASE 1 and jasmonic acid influence the outcome of Arabidopsis thaliana–Fusarium graminearum interaction

Article presents research that shows Arabidopsis MYZUS PERSICAE-INDUCED LIPASE 1 (MPL1), via its influence on limiting jasmonic acid (JA) accumulation, restricts Fusarium graminearum (Fg) infection.
Date: April 9, 2022
Creator: Alam, Syeda T.; Sarowar, Sujon; Mondal, Hossain A.; Makandar, Ragiba; Chowdhury, Zulkarnain; Louis, Joe et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A practical guide for assessing respiratory burst and phagocytic cell activity in the fathead minnow, an emerging model for immunotoxicity (open access)

A practical guide for assessing respiratory burst and phagocytic cell activity in the fathead minnow, an emerging model for immunotoxicity

Article is a study with the goal of optimizing and validating the use of a colorimetric plate-based respiratory burst and fluorometric plate-based phagocytic cell activity assays for use with kidney cells from the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), an emerging immunotoxicity model.
Date: July 18, 2020
Creator: Thornton Hampton, Leah M.; Venables, Barney J. & Jeffries, Marlo K. Sellin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increasing the Equilibrium Solubility of Meloxicam in Aqueous Media by Using Dimethyl Sulfoxide as a Cosolvent: Correlation, Dissolution Thermodynamics and Preferential Solvation (open access)

Increasing the Equilibrium Solubility of Meloxicam in Aqueous Media by Using Dimethyl Sulfoxide as a Cosolvent: Correlation, Dissolution Thermodynamics and Preferential Solvation

This article studies the solubility of meloxicam in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-aqueous solvent systems at several temperatures from 273.15 to 313.15 K to expand the solubility database about analgesic drugs in mixed solvents.
Date: August 12, 2022
Creator: Tinjacá, Darío; Martínez, Fleming; Almanza, Ovidio A.; Peña, María Á.; Jouyban, Abolghasem & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acoustic Metasurface-Aided Broadband Noise Reduction in Automobile Induced by Tire-Pavement Interaction (open access)

Acoustic Metasurface-Aided Broadband Noise Reduction in Automobile Induced by Tire-Pavement Interaction

Article demonstrating a technique utilizing acoustic metasurfaces (AMSes) with high reflective characteristics using relatively lightweight materials for noise reduction without any change in mechanical strength or weight of the tire. The proposed design can significantly reduce the noise arising from tire–pavement interaction over a broadband of acoustic frequencies under 1000 Hz and over a wide range of vehicle speeds using a negative effective dynamic mass density approach.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: Heo, Hyeonu; Sofield, Matthew; Ju, Jaehyung & Neogi, Arup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detection of Pancreatic Cancer miRNA with Biocompatible Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots (open access)

Detection of Pancreatic Cancer miRNA with Biocompatible Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots

Article detects the presence of a specific pancreatic cancer-derived miRNA (pre-miR-132) using the fluorescence properties of biocompatible nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (NGQDs) synthesized using a bottom-up approach from a single glucosamine precursor. This non-invasive approach allows cancer-specific miRNA detection to facilitate early diagnosis of various forms of cancer.
Date: August 20, 2022
Creator: Ajgaonkar, Ryan; Lee, Bong; Valimukhametova, Alina; Nguyen, Steven; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Roberto; Coffer, Jeffery et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos (open access)

Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data of 13C-Labeled Phospholipids in Camelina sativa and Thlaspi arvense (Pennycress) Embryos

This article uses currently available software and techniques to describe a workflow to analyze ¹³C-labeled isotopologues of the membrane lipid and storage oil lipid intermediate—phosphatidylcholine (PC). Results demonstrated greater ¹³C-isotopic labeling in the cotyledons of developing embryos compared with the embryonic axis.
Date: March 4, 2021
Creator: Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Kambhampati, Shrikaar; Koley, Somnath; Yadav, Umesh P.; Alonso, Ana Paula; Allen, Doug K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Specific Changes in Arabidopsis thaliana Rosette Lipids during Freezing Can Be Associated with Freezing Tolerance (open access)

Specific Changes in Arabidopsis thaliana Rosette Lipids during Freezing Can Be Associated with Freezing Tolerance

This article explores the ability of Arabidopsis thaliana to recover after exposure to freezing temperatures.
Date: March 17, 2022
Creator: Vu, Hieu Sy; Shiva, Sunitha; Samarakoon, Thilani; Li, Maoyin; Sarowar, Sujon; Roth, Mary R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeted Metabolic Profiles of the Leaves and Xylem Sap of Two Sugarcane Genotypes Infected with the Vascular Bacterial Pathogen Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli (open access)

Targeted Metabolic Profiles of the Leaves and Xylem Sap of Two Sugarcane Genotypes Infected with the Vascular Bacterial Pathogen Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli

This article identifies discriminant metabolites between a resistant (R) and a susceptible (S) sugarcane variety at the early stages of pathogen colonization (30 and 120 days after inoculation—DAI) by untargeted and targeted metabolomics of leaves and xylem sap using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The data represent a valuable resource of potential biomarkers for metabolite-assisted selection of resistant varieties to RS.
Date: April 12, 2021
Creator: Castro-Moretti, Fernanda R.; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Cia, Maria C.; Cataldi, Thais R.; Labate, Carlos A.; Alonso, Ana Paula et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolomics as an Emerging Tool for the Study of Plant–Pathogen Interactions (open access)

Metabolomics as an Emerging Tool for the Study of Plant–Pathogen Interactions

Paper discusses metabolomics studies that link changes in primary or specialized metabolism to the defense responses of plants against bacterial, fungal, nematode, and viral pathogens.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Castro-Moretti, Fernanda R.; Gentzel, Irene N.; Mackey, David & Alonso, Ana Paula
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MtGSTF7, a TT19-like GST gene, is essential for accumulation of anthocyanins, but not proanthocyanins in Medicago truncatula (open access)

MtGSTF7, a TT19-like GST gene, is essential for accumulation of anthocyanins, but not proanthocyanins in Medicago truncatula

Article shows that the mechanism of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin (PA) accumulation in M. truncatula is different from that in A. thaliana, and provides a new target gene for engineering anthocyanins in plants.
Date: March 16, 2022
Creator: Wang, Ruoruo; Lu, Nan; Liu, Chenggang; Dixon, R. A.; Wu, Qing; Mao, Yawen et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum (open access)

Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum

This article reports that in addition to the well-documented functional plasticity of the lingual salt glands, the middle of the three cloacal segments (i.e. the urodaeum) responds to increased ambient salinity to enhance solute-coupled water absorption in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus).
Date: July 16, 2019
Creator: Grosell, Martin; Heuer, Rachael M.; Wu, N. C.; Cramp, Rebecca L.; Wang, Yadong; Mager, Edward M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preferential intracellular pH regulation is a common trait amongst fishes exposed to high environmental CO2 (open access)

Preferential intracellular pH regulation is a common trait amongst fishes exposed to high environmental CO2

Article testing the hypothesis that preferential pHi regulation is a widespread strategy of acid–base regulation among fish by measuring pHi regulation in 10 different fish species that are broadly phylogenetically separated, spanning six orders, eight families and 10 genera.
Date: June 17, 2019
Creator: Shartau, R. B.; Baker, D. W.; Harter, T. S.; Aboagye, D. L.; Allen, P. J.; Val, A. L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non-conventional pathways enable pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) embryos to achieve high efficiency of oil biosynthesis (open access)

Non-conventional pathways enable pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) embryos to achieve high efficiency of oil biosynthesis

Article exploring how to improve oil production in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.).
Date: February 1, 2020
Creator: Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Alonso, Ana Paula & Tsogtbaatar, Enkhtuul
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heterologous Expression of Secondary Metabolite Genes in Trichoderma reesei for Waste Valorization (open access)

Heterologous Expression of Secondary Metabolite Genes in Trichoderma reesei for Waste Valorization

Article develops Trichoderma reesei (Hypocrea jecorina) as a microbial cell factory for the heterologous expression of fungal secondary metabolites.
Date: March 9, 2022
Creator: Shenouda, Mary L.; Ambilika, Maria; Skellam, Elizabeth & Cox, Russell J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remodeling the epigenome and (epi)cytoskeleton: a new paradigm for co-regulation by methylation (open access)

Remodeling the epigenome and (epi)cytoskeleton: a new paradigm for co-regulation by methylation

This article is a commentary on coordinated use of methyl marks to remodel both the epigenome and the (epi)cytoskeleton, which opens the possibility for integrated regulation (referred to as ‘epiregulation’) of other higher-level functions, such as muscle contraction or learning and memory, and could even have evolutionary implications.
Date: July 3, 2020
Creator: Walker, Cheryl & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parental transgenerational epigenetic inheritance related to dietary crude oil exposure in Danio rerio (open access)

Parental transgenerational epigenetic inheritance related to dietary crude oil exposure in Danio rerio

Article investigating the transgenerational inheritance from both parental lines in zebrafish. Adult zebrafish were separated into female and male groups exposed for 21 days to either a control diet or to a diet containing water accommodated fractions of crude oil. To determine the maternal and paternal influence on their offspring, the authors evaluated responses from molecular to whole organismal levels in both generations.
Date: January 22, 2020
Creator: Bautista, Naim M.; Crespel, Amélie; Crossley, Janna; Padilla, Pamela A. & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library