LDIP cooperates with SEIPIN and LDAP to facilitate lipid droplet biogenesis in Arabidopsis (open access)

LDIP cooperates with SEIPIN and LDAP to facilitate lipid droplet biogenesis in Arabidopsis

Article showing that a recently identified protein termed LD-associated protein [LDAP]-interacting protein (LDIP) works together with both endoplasmic reticulum-localized SEIPIN and the LD-coat protein LDAP to facilitate LD formation in Arabidopsis thaliana. The data is discussed in the context of a new model for LD biogenesis in plant cells with evolutionary connections to LD biogenesis in other eukaryotes.
Date: June 9, 2021
Creator: Pyc, Michal; Gidda, Satinder K.; Seay, Damien C.; Esnay, Nicolas; Kretzschmar, Franziska K.; Cai, Yingqi et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-engineering Plant Phenylpropanoid Metabolism With the Aid of Synthetic Biosensors (open access)

Re-engineering Plant Phenylpropanoid Metabolism With the Aid of Synthetic Biosensors

Article that provides a brief overview of current research on synthetic biology and metabolic engineering approaches to control phenylpropanoid synthesis and phenylpropanoid-related biosensors, advocating for the use of biosensors and genetic circuits as a step forward in plant synthetic biology to develop autonomously-controlled phenylpropanoid-producing plant biofactories.
Date: September 16, 2021
Creator: Ferreira, Savio S. & Antunes, Mauricio S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cysne et al. Reply (open access)

Cysne et al. Reply

This article is a response to a comment on the authors' original article "Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides." The authors' response concludes that they do not believe the main points of the original Letter are affected by the Comment.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Cysne, Tarik P.; Costa, Marcio; Canonico, Luis M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Muniz, R. B. & Rappoport, Tatiana G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design (open access)

Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design

This article is part of a Focus Issue on the topic of Rubin LSST Survey Strategy Optimization. The motivation, history, and decision-making process of the observing strategy optimization are detailed, giving context to the science-driven proposals and recommendations for the survey strategy included in this Focus Issue.
Date: December 22, 2021
Creator: Bianco, Federica B.; Ivezić, Željko; Jones, R. Lynne; Graham, Melissa L.; Marshall, Phil; Saha, Abhijit et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerated reliability testing of Cu-Al bimetallic contact by a micropattern corrosion testing platform for wire bond device application (open access)

Accelerated reliability testing of Cu-Al bimetallic contact by a micropattern corrosion testing platform for wire bond device application

This article presents a novel method of in-situ investigation of the device corrosion process to capture the real time mechanistic information not obtained in standard reliability testing.
Date: March 26, 2021
Creator: Ashok Kumar, Goutham Isaac; Alptekin, John; Caperton, Joshua; Salunke, Ashish & Chyan, Oliver Ming-Ren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biophotons-and-emergence-of-quantum-coherencea-diffusion-entropy-analysisEntropy (open access)

Biophotons-and-emergence-of-quantum-coherencea-diffusion-entropy-analysisEntropy

This article studies the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. It analyzes the dark count signal without germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germination process.
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Benfatto, Maurizio; Pace, Elisabetta; Curceanu, Catalina; Scordo, Alessandro; Clozza, Alberto; Davoli, Ivan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caputo Fractional Derivative and Quantum-Like Coherence (open access)

Caputo Fractional Derivative and Quantum-Like Coherence

This article studies two forms of anomalous diffusions and discusses the joint use of these prescriptions, with a phenomenological method and a theoretical projection method, leading to two apparently different diffusion equations. The authors prove that the two diffusion equations are equivalent and design a time series that corresponds to the anomalous diffusion equation proposed.
Date: February 9, 2021
Creator: Culbreth, Garland; Bologna, Mauro; West, Bruce J. & Grigolini, Paolo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of the Nit6803 nitrilase homolog from the cyanotroph Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764 (open access)

Characterization of the Nit6803 nitrilase homolog from the cyanotroph Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764

This article reports the purification and characterization of a nitrilase (E.C. 3.5.5.1) (Nit11764) essential for the assimilation of cyanide as the sole nitrogen source by the cyanotroph, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764.
Date: January 16, 2021
Creator: Jones, Lauren B.; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Gullapalli, Jaya S. & Kunz, Daniel A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do gene-environment interactions play a role in COVID-19 distribution? The case of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin, air pollution and COVID-19 (open access)

Do gene-environment interactions play a role in COVID-19 distribution? The case of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin, air pollution and COVID-19

This article evaluates the role that gene-environment interaction between air-pollution and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) genes plays in the severity of COVID-19. Results find parallelism between the number of COVID deaths and the AAT*air pollution global risk in Europe.
Date: May 7, 2021
Creator: Murgia, Nicola; Corsico, Angelo Guido; D'Amato, Gennaro; Maesano, Cara Nichole; Tozzi, Arturo & Annesi-Maesano, Isabella
System: The UNT Digital Library
High degree of non-genetic phenotypic variation in the vascular system of crayfish: a discussion of possible causes and implications (open access)

High degree of non-genetic phenotypic variation in the vascular system of crayfish: a discussion of possible causes and implications

This article studies the hemolymph vascular system (HVS) in two cambarid crayfishes, i.e. the Marbled Crayfish, Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 and the Spiny Cheek Crayfish, Faxonius limosus (Rafinesque, 1817) in regard to areas of non-genetic phenotypic variation.
Date: August 12, 2021
Creator: Scholz, Stephan; Göpel, Torben; Richter, Stefan & Wirkner, Christian S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnesium and Fibromyalgia: A Literature Review (open access)

Magnesium and Fibromyalgia: A Literature Review

This article investigates if the widespread use of magnesium in fibromyalgia is supported by evidence in the literature. This review provides a layout of the studies examining the correlation between body magnesium levels and fibromyalgia and elaborates on the trials testing the effectiveness of magnesium in treating different clinical parameters of fibromyalgia.
Date: August 14, 2021
Creator: Boulis, Michael; Boulis, Mary & Clauw, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proton reduction by phosphinidene-capped triiron clusters (open access)

Proton reduction by phosphinidene-capped triiron clusters

This article prepares and examines Bis(phosphinidene)-capped triiron carbonyl clusters, including electron rich derivatives formed by substitution with chelating diphosphines as proton reduction catalysts.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Rahaman, Ahibur; Lisensky, George C.; Haukka, Matti; Tocher, Derek A.; Richmond, Michael G.; Colbran, Stephen B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultrafast dephasing in hydrogen-bonded pyridine–water mixtures (open access)

Ultrafast dephasing in hydrogen-bonded pyridine–water mixtures

Article studying Hydrogen-bonded pyridine–water mixtures by a time-frequency resolved coherent Raman spectroscopic technique.
Date: May 4, 2021
Creator: Ariunbold, Gombojav O.; Semon, Bryan; Nagpal, Supriya & Rostovtsev, Yuri V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developmental Physiology: Grand Challenges (open access)

Developmental Physiology: Grand Challenges

Article indicating directions in which the field of Developmental Physiology might move. It suggests three categories of challenges: demonstrating broad relevance, promoting conceptual advances, and improving experimental approaches.
Date: June 10, 2021
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phylogenetic Occurrence of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Lignin Biosynthesis in Plants (open access)

Phylogenetic Occurrence of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Lignin Biosynthesis in Plants

This article is a review summarizing recent progress in defining the lignin biosynthetic pathway in lycophytes, monilophytes, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. This review provides new insights into the genetic engineering of the lignin biosynthetic pathway to overcome biomass recalcitrance in bioenergy crops.
Date: August 17, 2021
Creator: Yao, Tao; Feng, Kai; Xie, Meng; Barros, Jaime; Tschaplinski, Timothy J.; Tuskan, Gerald et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developmental thyroid disruption causes long-term impacts on immune cell function and transcriptional responses to pathogen in a small fish model (open access)

Developmental thyroid disruption causes long-term impacts on immune cell function and transcriptional responses to pathogen in a small fish model

This article explores the connection between thyroid hormones (THs) and immune systems in fish. This article is noteworthy as disruption of the thyroid system during development, which can occur in response to chemicals present in the environment, may have lasting effects on immune function in adulthood for fish.
Date: July 14, 2021
Creator: Thornton Hampton, Leah M.; Finch, Miranda G.; Martyniuk, Christopher J.; Venables, Barney J. & Jeffries, Marlo K. Sellin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exposure to diesel exhaust particles results in altered lung microbial profiles, associated with increased reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species and inflammation, in C57Bl/6 wildtype mice on a high-fat diet (open access)

Exposure to diesel exhaust particles results in altered lung microbial profiles, associated with increased reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species and inflammation, in C57Bl/6 wildtype mice on a high-fat diet

Article investigating if the exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEP) can alter commensal lung microbiota, thereby promoting alterations in the lung’s immune and inflammatory responses. This article also explores if diet contributes to the alteration of the commensal lung microbiome.
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Daniel, Sarah; Phillippi, Danielle; Schneider, Leah J.; Nguyen, Kayla N.; Mirpuri, Julie & Lund, Amie K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knockdown screening of chromatin binding and regulatory proteins in zebrafish identified Suz12b as a regulator of tfpia and an antithrombotic drug target (open access)

Knockdown screening of chromatin binding and regulatory proteins in zebrafish identified Suz12b as a regulator of tfpia and an antithrombotic drug target

Article identifying novel epigenetic regulators for tfpia and exploiting this information to discover a drug that enhances tfpia mRNA levels and prolongation of TTO. This discovery provides the basis for testing whether UNC6852 could be used as an antithrombotic drug.
Date: July 27, 2021
Creator: Raman, Revathi; Fallatah, Weam; Al Qaryoute, Ayah; Dhinoja, Sanchi & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rational design of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers (open access)

Rational design of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers

This article is a review discussing the rational design and synthesis of bifunctional conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs), summarizes their advanced applications, and concludes with the authors' perspectives on the research prospects of these materials.
Date: July 22, 2021
Creator: Song, Yanpei; Lan, Pui Ching; Martin, Kyle & Ma, Shengqian
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sphingolipids mediate polar sorting of PIN2 through phosphoinositide consumption at the trans-Golgi network (open access)

Sphingolipids mediate polar sorting of PIN2 through phosphoinositide consumption at the trans-Golgi network

Article discovering a mechanism for how sphingolipids mediate phosphoinositide homeostasis at the TGN in plant cells. The data presented identifies a mode of action of sphingolipids in lipid interplay at the TGN during protein sorting.
Date: July 13, 2021
Creator: Ito, Yoko; Esnay, Nicolas; Platre, Matthieu Pierre; Wattelet-Boyer, Valérie; Noack, Lise C.; Fougère, Louise et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topologically driven linear magnetoresistance in helimagnetic FeP (open access)

Topologically driven linear magnetoresistance in helimagnetic FeP

Article presenting a series of high magnetic field experiments on high-quality single crystals of FeP. The study shows that resistance not only increases without saturation by up to several hundred times its zero-field value by 35 T, but that it also exhibits an anomalously linear field dependence over the entire range when the field is aligned precisely along the crystallographic c-axis.
Date: April 14, 2021
Creator: Campbell, D.J.; Collini, J.; Sławińska, Jagoda; Autieri, C.; Wang, L.; Wang, K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dual activity of anthocyanidin reductase supports the dominant plant proanthocyanidin extension unit pathway (open access)

Dual activity of anthocyanidin reductase supports the dominant plant proanthocyanidin extension unit pathway

This article presents research on genetic and biochemical analyses that shows ANR has dual activity and is involved not only in the production of (−)-epicatechin starter units but also in the formation of 2,3-cis-leucocyanidin to serve as (−)-epicatechin extension units. The results find that differences in the product specificities of ANRs account for the presence/absence of PA polymerization and the compositions of PAs across plant species
Date: May 14, 2021
Creator: Jun, Ji Hyung; Lu, Nan; Docampo-Palacios, Maite; Wang, Xiaoqiang & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abscisic acid regulates secondary cell-wall formation and lignin deposition in Arabidopsis thaliana through phosphorylation of NST1 (open access)

Abscisic acid regulates secondary cell-wall formation and lignin deposition in Arabidopsis thaliana through phosphorylation of NST1

Article using a combination of biochemical and genetic approaches to show how ABA can regulate lignin biosynthesis. This work provides a basis for designing trees and other biomass plants that are better adapted to stress and climate change. This article includes a correction on the first page.
Date: February 2, 2021
Creator: Liu, Chang; Yu, Hasi; Rao, Xiaolan; Li, Laigeng & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrative omics identification, evolutionary and structural analysis of low affinity nitrate transporters in diatoms, diNPFs (open access)

Integrative omics identification, evolutionary and structural analysis of low affinity nitrate transporters in diatoms, diNPFs

This article reports a comprehensive characterization of the Nitrate Transporter 1/Peptide Transporter Family (NPF) in diatoms, diNPFs.
Date: April 7, 2021
Creator: Santin, Anna; Caputi, Luigi; Longo, Antonella; Chiurazzi, Maurizio; d’Alcalà, Maurizio Ribera; Russo, Monia Teresa et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library