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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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance (open access)

Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance

This article provides information on the organization and outcomes of the BioEnergy Science Center Transformation Pipeline, and supplies useful information when developing coordinated, large-scale, multi-institutional reverse genetic pipelines to improve crop traits.
Date: December 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Richard S.; Stewart, C. Neal, Jr.; Gou, Jiqing; Holladay, Susan; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Flanagan, Amy et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Epigenetic modulation of inflammation and synaptic plasticity promotes resilience against stress in mice (open access)

Epigenetic modulation of inflammation and synaptic plasticity promotes resilience against stress in mice

This article uses high-throughput screening to identify two phytochemicals that are effective in promoting resilience against stress by moduling brain synaptic plasticity and peripheral inflammation.
Date: September 7, 2016
Creator: Wang, Jun; Hodes, Georgia E.; Zhang, Hongxing; Zhang, Song; Zhao, Wei; Golden, Sam A. et al.
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.
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.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phylogenetic analysis of the CDGSH iron-sulfur binding domain reveals its ancient origin (open access)

Phylogenetic analysis of the CDGSH iron-sulfur binding domain reveals its ancient origin

This article reports on the origin, evolution, and diversification of the iron-sulfur (2Fe-2S) binding motif CDGSH.
Date: November 28, 2017
Creator: Sengupta, Soham; Nechushtai, Rachel; Jennings, Patricia A.; Onuchic, José N.; Padilla, Pamela A.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Role of novel histone modifications in cancer (open access)

Role of novel histone modifications in cancer

This article briefly discusses post-translational modifications such as neddylation, sumoylation, glycosylation, phosphorylation, polyADP ribosylation, ubiquitination, and transcriptional regulation.
Date: October 11, 2017
Creator: Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Arfuso, Frank; Arumugam, Surendar; Chinnathambi, Arunachalam; Jinsong, Bian; Warrier, Sudha R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Models for Transcriptional Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis in Grasses (open access)

Current Models for Transcriptional Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis in Grasses

This article reviews current advances in secondary cell wall regulation in grasses, and discusses the commonalities and the differences between grasses and dicots.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Pcr Amplification of Dna From Human Bloodstains, Saliva, and Touch Samples Collected With Microfloq® Swabs (open access)

Direct Pcr Amplification of Dna From Human Bloodstains, Saliva, and Touch Samples Collected With Microfloq® Swabs

This article investigates the efficacy of direct amplification of DNA from bloodstains, saliva stains, and touch samples using microFLOQ® Direct swabs and the GlobalFiler™ Express system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA).
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Ambers, Angie D.; Wiley, Rachel; Novroski, Nicole & Budowle, Bruce
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Threshold Selection Methods for Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation in Disease Mapping (open access)

Evaluation of Threshold Selection Methods for Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation in Disease Mapping

This article assesses the relative performance of threshold selection methods in terms of resolution and reliability for disease mapping.
Date: May 8, 2018
Creator: Ruckthongsook, Warangkana; Tiwari, Chetan; Oppong, Joseph R. & Natesan, Prathiba
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.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deciphering pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance islands in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genomes (open access)

Deciphering pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance islands in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genomes

This article explores the use of an information-entropy-based gene clustering method for genomic island detection in MRSA.
Date: November 16, 2017
Creator: Jani, Mehul; Sengupta, Soham; Hu, Kelsey & Azad, Rajeev K.
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.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus (open access)

Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus

This article investigates physiological responses of larval fish to interactions between anthropogenic crude oile xposure andn atural factors.
Date: October 17, 2018
Creator: Perrichon, Prescilla; Mager, Edward M.; Pasparakis, Christina; Stieglitz, John D.; Benetti, Daniel D.; Grosell, Martin et al.
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.
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.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of bottlenecks in the accumulation of cyclic fatty acids in camelina seed oil (open access)

Identification of bottlenecks in the accumulation of cyclic fatty acids in camelina seed oil

This article proposes a model for the accumulation of substantial levels of cyclopropane fatty acids (CPA) in camelina, and discusses the differences between CPA accumulation in camelina and Arabidopsis.
Date: July 10, 2017
Creator: Yu, Xiao-Hong; Cahoon, Rebecca E.; Horn, Patrick J.; Shi, Hai; Prakash, Richa R.; Cai, Yuanheng et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Xenopus and the art of oxygen maintenance (open access)

Xenopus and the art of oxygen maintenance

This column article discusses the impact of Robert Boutillier and Graham Shelton's 1986 Journal of Experimental Biology paper "Gas exchange, storage and transport in voluntarily diving Xenopus laevis."
Date: November 15, 2017
Creator: Tattersall, Glenn & Burggren, Warren W.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library