A collection of faculty scholarship from the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Dominican University of California

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Submissions from 2018

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The potential of achiral sponge-derived and synthetic bromoindoles as selective cytotoxins against PANC-1 tumor cells., Nicholas Lorig-Roach, Frances Hamkins-Indik, Tyler A. Johnson, Karen Tenney, Frederick A. Valeriote, and Phillip Crews

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Embryonic origin and genetic basis of cave associated phenotypes in the isopod crustacean Asellus aquaticus., Hafasa Mojaddidi, Franco Fernandez, Priscilla A. Erickson, and Meredith E. Protas

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Common Genetic Basis of Eye and Pigment Loss in Two Distinct Cave Populations of the Isopod Crustacean Asellus aquaticus., Cassandra Re, Žiga Fišer, Justin Perez, Allyson Tacdol, Peter Trontelj, and Meredith E. Protas

Scholarship from 2017

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A Variant PfCRT Isoform Can Contribute to Plasmodium falciparum Resistance to the First-Line Partner Drug Piperaquine, Satish K. Dhingra, Devasha Redhi, Jill M. Combrinck, Tomas Yeo, John Okombo, Philipp P. Henrich, Ann N. Cowell, Purva Gupta, Matthew L. Stegman, Jonathan M. Hoke, Roland A. Cooper, Elizabeth Winzeler, Sachel Mok, Timothy J. Egan, and David A. Fidock

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Cutaneous Microbial Community Variation across Populations of Eastern Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis), Obed Hernandez-Gomez, Jason T. Hoverman, and Rod N. Williams

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Characterization of the Cutaneous Bacterial Communities of Two Giant Salamander Subspecies, Obed Hernandez-Gomez, Steven J. A. Kimble, Jeffrey T. Briggler, and Rod N. Williams

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Identification of the First Marine-Derived Opioid Receptor "Balanced" Agonist with a Signaling Profile That Resembles the Endorphins., Tyler A. Johnson, Laura Millan-Lobo, Tao Che, Madeline Ferwerda, Eptisam Lambu, Nicole L. McIntosh, Fei Li, Li He, Nicholas Lorig-Roach, Phillip Crews, and Jennifer L. Whistler

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At the confluence of ribosomally synthesized peptide modification and radical, John A. Latham, Ian Barr, and Judith P. Klinman

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Another Look at Pyrroloiminoquinone Alkaloids-Perspectives on Their Therapeutic Potential from Known Structures and Semisynthetic Analogues., Sheng Lin, Erin P. McCauley, Nicholas Lorig-Roach, Karen Tenney, Cassandra N. Naphen, Ai-Mei Yang, Tyler A. Johnson, Thalia Hernadez, Ramandeep Rattan, Frederick A. Valeriote, and Phillip Crews

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Steroid hormone receptors as prognostic markers in breast cancer., Maggie Louie and Mary B. Sevigny

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Monitoring Using a Sentinel Plant System Reveals Very Limited Aerial Spread of Phytophthora ramorum From Infected Ornamental Plants in a Quarantine Research Nursery, Tomas Pastalka, Suzanne Rooney-Latham, Kathleen Kosta, Karen Suslow, Vernon Huffman, Sibdas Ghosh, and Wolfgang Schweigkofler

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Formation of environmentally persistent free radicals (EPFRs) on ZnO at room temperature: Implications for the fundamental model of EPFR generation., Matthew C. Patterson, Mark F. DiTusa, Cheri A. McFerrin, R. L. Kurtz, Randall W. Hall, E. D. Poliakoff, and P. T. Sprunger

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Mutations of conserved non-coding elements of PITX2 in patients with ocular dysgenesis and developmental glaucoma., Meredith E. Protas, Eric Weh, Tim Footz, Jay Kasberger, Scott C. Baraban, Alex V. Levin, L. Jay Katz, Robert Ritch, Michael A. Walter, Elena V. Semina, and Douglas B. Gould

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Changing Antimalarial Drug Sensitivities in Uganda., Stephanie A. Rasmussen, Frida G. Ceja, Melissa D. Conrad, Patrick K. Tumwebaze, Oswald Byaruhanga, Thomas Katairo, Samuel L. Nsobya, Philip J. Rosenthal, and Roland A. Cooper

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A potent antimalarial benzoxaborole targets a Plasmodium falciparum cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor homologue., Ebere Sonoiki, Caroline L. Ng, Marcus C. S. Lee, Denghui Guo, Yong-Kang Zhang, Yasheen Zhou, M. R. K. Alley, Vida Ahyong, Laura M. Sanz, Maria Jose Lafuente-Monasterio, Chen Dong, Patrick G. Schupp, Jiri Gut, Jenny Legac, Roland A. Cooper, Francisco-Javier Gamo, Joseph DeRisi, Yvonne R. Freund, David A. Fidock, and Philip J. Rosenthal

Submissions from 2016

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Demonstration That the Radical S-Adenosylmethionine (SAM) Enzyme PqqE Catalyzes de Novo Carbon-Carbon Cross-linking within a Peptide Substrate PqqA in the Presence of the Peptide Chaperone PqqD., Ian Barr, John A. Latham, Anthony T. Iavarone, Teera Chantarojsiri, Jennifer D. Hwang, and Judith P. Klinman

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Opsin Repertoire and Expression Patterns in Horseshoe Crabs: Evidence from the Genome of Limulus polyphemus (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), Barbara-Anne Battelle, Joseph F. Ryan, Karen E. Kempler, Spencer R. Saraf, Catherine E. Marten, Wesley C. Warren, Patrick J. Minx, Michael J. Montague, Pamela J. Green, Skye A. Schmidt, Lucinda Fulton, Nipam H. Patel, Meredith E. Protas, Richard K. Wilson, and Megan L. Porter

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CO and NO bind to Fe(II) DiGeorge critical region 8 heme but do not restore primary microRNA processing activity., Judy P. Hines, Aaron T. Smith, Jose P. Jacob, Gudrun S. Lukat-Rodgers, Ian Barr, Kenton R. Rodgers, Feng Guo, and Judith N. Burstyn

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Sign Learning Kink-based (SiLK) Quantum Monte Carlo for Molecular Systems, Xiaoyao Ma, Randall W. Hall, Frank Loffler, Karol Kowalski, Kiran Bhaskaran-Nair, Mark Jarrell, and Juana Moreno

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Antimalarial Benzoxaboroles Target Plasmodium falciparum Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase., Ebere Sonoiki, Andres Palencia, Denghui Guo, Vida Ahyong, Chen Dong, Xianfeng Li, Vincent S. Hernandez, Yong-Kang Zhang, Wai Choi, Jiri Gut, Jennifer Legac, Roland A. Cooper, M. R. K. Alley, Yvonne R. Freund, Joseph DeRisi, Stephen Cusack, and Philip J. Rosenthal

Submissions from 2015

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Pyridine Hemochromagen Assay for Determining the Concentration of Heme in Purified Protein Solutions, Ian Barr and Feng Guo

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Cobalt(III) Protoporphyrin Activates the DGCR8 Protein and Can Compensate microRNA Processing Deficiency., Ian Barr, Sara H. Weitz, Talia Atkin, PeiKen Hsu, Maria Karayiorgou, Joseph A. Gogos, Shimon Weiss, and Feng Guo

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Antibacterial activity of native California medicinal plant extracts isolated from Rhamnus californica and Umbellularia californica., Maria G. Carranza, Mary B. Sevigny, Debashree Banerjee, and Lacie Fox-Cubley

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Lack of Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in Uganda Based on Parasitological and Molecular Assays, Roland A. Cooper, Melissa D. Conrad, Quentin D. Watson, Stephanie J. Huezo, Harriet Ninsiima, Patrick Tumwebaze, Samuel L. Nsobya, and Philip J. Rosenthal

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Lack of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to dihydroartemisinin in Uganda based on parasitogolgical and molecular assays, Roland A. Cooper, Melissa D. Conrad, Quentin D. Watson, Stephanie J. Huezo, Harriet Ninsiima, Patrick Tumwebaze, Samuel L. Nsobya, and Philip J. Rosenthal