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Short-chain fatty acid receptors inhibit invasive phenotypes in breast cancer cells (open access)

Short-chain fatty acid receptors inhibit invasive phenotypes in breast cancer cells

This article evaluates the effects of enforced overexpression of two known G protein-coupled receptors in two phenotypically distinct breast cancer cell lines.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Thirunavukkarasan, Madhumathi; Wang, Chao; Rao, Angad; Hind, Tatsuma; Teo, Yuan Ru; Siddiquee, Abrar Al-Mahmood et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Square Roots of Real 3 x 3 Matrices vs. Quartic Polynomials with Real Zeros (open access)

Square Roots of Real 3 x 3 Matrices vs. Quartic Polynomials with Real Zeros

Article on the analogy between the description of the real square roots of 3x3 matrices and the zeros of the (depressed) real quartic polynomial, using the Cayley-Hamilton theorem.
Date: November 2017
Creator: Anghel, Nicolae
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tailoring seed oil composition in the real world: optimising omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid accumulation in transgenic Camelina sativa (open access)

Tailoring seed oil composition in the real world: optimising omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid accumulation in transgenic Camelina sativa

This article discusses the further tailoring of the seed oil profile to reduce the omega-6 content, and an evaluation of the performance of such GM plants under field conditions in terms of agronomic performance and the lipidomic profile of seed oil.
Date: July 26, 2017
Creator: Usher, Sarah; Han, Lihua; Haslam, Richard P.; Michaelson, Louise V.; Sturtevant, Drew; Aziz, Mina et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tales of diversity: Genomic and morphological characteristics of forty-six Arthrobacter phages (open access)

Tales of diversity: Genomic and morphological characteristics of forty-six Arthrobacter phages

This article describes the isolation and genomic characterization of 46 phages from environmental samples at various geographic locations in the U.S. infecting a single Arthrobacter sp. strain.
Date: July 17, 2017
Creator: Klyczek, Karen; Bonilla, J. Alfred; Jacobs-Sera, Deborah; Adair, Tamarah; Afram, Patricia; Allen, Katherine G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tinker-HP: a massively parallel molecular dynamics package for multiscale simulations of large complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable force fields (open access)

Tinker-HP: a massively parallel molecular dynamics package for multiscale simulations of large complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable force fields

This article presents Tinker-HP, a massively MPI parallel package dedicated to classical molecular dynamics (MD) and to multiscale simulations, using advanced polarizable force fields (PFF) encompassing distributed multipoles electrostatics.
Date: November 24, 2017
Creator: Lagardère, Louis; Jolly, Luc-Henri; Lipparini, Filippo; Aviat, Félix; Stamm, Benjamin; Jing, Zhifeng F. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward a More Rational Design of the Direct Synthesis of Aniline: A Density Functional Theory Study (open access)

Toward a More Rational Design of the Direct Synthesis of Aniline: A Density Functional Theory Study

This article uses plane-wave density functional theory calculations to investigate the direct amination of benzene catalyzed by a Ni(111) surface to explore the reaction intermediates and to understand the role of nickel in this reaction.
Date: March 24, 2017
Creator: Alsunaidi, Zainab H. A.; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- & Wilson, Angela K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracing the accretion history of supermassive black holes through X-ray variability: results from the Chandra Deep Field-South (open access)

Tracing the accretion history of supermassive black holes through X-ray variability: results from the Chandra Deep Field-South

This article studies the X-ray variability properties of distant active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the Chandra Deep Field-South region over 17 yr, up to z ~ 4, and compare them with those predicted by models based on local samples.
Date: July 14, 2017
Creator: Paolillo, Maurizio; Papadakis, I.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Luo, Bin; Xue, Yongquan; Tozzi, Paolo et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis (open access)

Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis

This paper includes a review and recommendation by the National Bobwhite Technical Committee Science Subcommittee, along with a discussion of the state of science on key aspects of bobwhite conservation, best management practices for translocation, and ways to reduce uncertainty about implementation.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Martin, James A.; Applegate, Roger D.; Dailey, Thomas V.; Downey, Michelle; Emmerich, Beth; Hernández, Fidel et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Updated Understanding of Texas Bumble Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Species Presence and Potential Distributions in Texas, Usa (open access)

An Updated Understanding of Texas Bumble Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Species Presence and Potential Distributions in Texas, Usa

This article aims to update existing Texas bumble bee presence databases, model statewide species distributions, and identify conservation target areas.
Date: August 10, 2017
Creator: Beckham, Jessica L. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library