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

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Submissions from 2015

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PqqD is a novel peptide chaperone that forms a ternary complex with the radical S-adenosylmethionine protein PqqE in the pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthetic pathway, John A. Latham, Anthony T. Iavarone, Ian Barr, Prerak V. Juthani, and Judith P. Klinman

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The Sign Learning Kink (SiLK) based Quantum Monte Carlo for Molecular Systems, Xiaoyao Ma, Frank Loffler, Randall Hall, Karol kowalski, Mark Jarrell, and Juana Moreno

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Acute and chronic cadmium exposure promotes E-cadherin degradation in MCF7 breast cancer cells., Esmeralda Ponce, Maggie Louie, and Mary B. Sevigny

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Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter, PfCRT, enlarge the parasite's food vacuole and alter drug sensitivities, Serena Pulcini, Henry M. Staines, Andrew H. Lee, Sarah H. Shafik, Guillaume Bouyer, Catherine M. Moore, Daniel A. Daley, Matthew J. Hoke, Lindsey M. Altenhofen, Heather J. Painter, Jianbing Mu, David J. P. Ferguson, Manuel Llinas, Rowen E. Martin, David A. Fidock, Roland Cooper, and Sanjeev Krishna

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Resistance Inducers and Plant Growth Regulators Show only Limited and Transient Effects on Infection Rates, Growth Rates and Symptom Expression of Apple Trees Infected with ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma mali’, Silva Schmidt, Sanja Baric, Maya Massenz, Thomas Letschka, Valerie Vanas, Manfred Wolf, Christine Kerschbamer, Roland Zelger, and Wolfgang Schweigkofler

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A Transcriptomic Analysis of Cave, Surface, and Hybrid Isopod Crustaceans of the Species Asellus aquaticus, Bethany A. Stahl, Joshua B. Gross, Daniel I. Speiser, Todd H. Oakley, Nipham H. Patel, Douglas B. Gould, and Meredith E. Protas

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Biosynthetic products from a nearshore-derived gram-negative bacterium enable reassessment of the kailuin depsipeptides., Christine M. Theodore, Nicholas Lorig-Roach, Patrick C. Still, Tyler A. Johnson, Marija Drašković, Joshua A. Schwochert, Cassandra N. Naphen, Mitchell S. Crews, Simone A. Barker, Frederick A. Valeriote, R. Scott Lokey, and Phillip Crews

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Impact of Antimalarial Treatment and Chemoprevention on the Drug Sensitivity of Malaria Parasites Isolated from Ugandan Children, Patrick Tumwebaze, Melissa D. Conrad, Andrew Walakira, Norbert LeClair, Oswald Byaruhanga, Christine Nakazibwe, Benjamin Kozak, Jessica Bloome, Jaffer Okiring, Abel Kakuru, Victor Bigira, James Kapisi, Jennifer Legac, Jiri Gut, Roland A. Cooper, Moses R. Kamya, Diane V. Havlir, Grant Dorsey, Bryan Greenhouse, Samuel L. Nsobya, and Philip J. Rosenthal

Submissions from 2014

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Primary microRNA processing assay reconstituted using recombinant Drosha and DGCR8., Ian Barr and Feng Guo

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Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals (EPFRs). 3. Free versus Bound Hydroxyl Radicals in EPFR Aqueous Solutions, Lavrent Khachatryan, Cheri A. McFerrin, Randall W. Hall, and Barry Dellinger

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Perceived Benefits and Challenges of Interprofessional Education Based on a Multidisciplinary Faculty Member Survey, David Benjamin Lash, Mitchell J. Barnett, Nirali Parekh, Anita Shieh, Maggie Louie, and Terrill T-L. Tang

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Microbial biosynthesis of medium-chain 1-alkenes by a nonheme iron oxidase, Zhe Rui, Xin Li, Xuejun Zhu, Joyce Liu, Bonnie Domigan, Ian Barr, Jamie H D Cate, and Wenjun Zhang

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Steaming Inactivates Phytophthora ramorum, Causal Agent of Sudden Oak Death and Ramorum Blight, from Infested Nursery Soils in California, Wolfgang Schweigkofler, Kathleen Kosta, Vernon Huffman, Supriya Sharma, Karen Suslow, and Sibdas Ghosh

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Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms, Daniel I. Speiser, M. Sabrina Pankey, Alexander K. Zaharoff, Barbara A. Battelle, Heather D. Bracken-Grissom, Jesse W. Breinholt, Seth M. Bybee, Thomas W. Cronin, Anders Garm, Annie R. Lindgren, Nipam H. Patel, Megan L. Porter, Meredith E. Protas, Anja S. Rivera, Jeanne M. Serb, Kirk S. Zigler, Keith A. Crandall, and Todd H. Oakley

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Scrutinizing the scaffolds of marine biosynthetics from different source organisms: Gram-negative cultured bacterial products enter center stage., Patrick C. Still, Tyler A. Johnson, Christine M. Theodore, Steven T. Loveridge, and Phillip Crews

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Processing of microRNA primary transcripts requires heme in mammalian cells., Sara H. Weitz, Ming Gong, Ian Barr, Shimon Weiss, and Feng Guo

Submissions from 2013

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Lipophilic stinging nettle extracts possess potent anti-inflammatory activity, are not cytotoxic and may be superior to traditional tinctures for treating inflammatory disorders., Tyler A. Johnson, Johann Sohn, Wayne D Inman, Leonard F. Bjeldanes, and Keith Rayburn

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Using Expression Profiling to Understand the Effects of Chronic Cadmium Exposure on MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells, Zelmina Lubovac-Pilav, Daniel M. Borras, Esmeralda Ponce, and Maggie Louie

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Chronic Cadmium Exposure Stimulates SDF-1 Expression in an ERα Dependent Manner, Esmeralda Ponce, Natalie B. Aquino, and Maggie Louie

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Chemically diverse microtubule stabilizing agents initiate distinct mitotic defects and dysregulated expression of key mitotic kinases., Cristina C. Rohena, Jiangnan Peng, Tyler A. Johnson, Phillip Crews, and Susan L. Mooberry

Scholarship from 2012

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The Role of Cadmium and Nickel in Estrogen Receptor Signaling and Breast Cancer: Metalloestrogens or Not?, Natalie B. Aquino, Mary B. Sevigny, Jackielyn Sabangan, and Maggie C. Louie

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Ferric, not ferrous, heme activates RNA-binding protein DGCR8 for primary microRNA processing., Ian Barr, Aaron T. Smith, Yanqiu Chen, Rachel Senturia, Judith N. Burstyn, and Feng Guo

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Mutation in the Plasmodium falciparum CRT protein determines the stereospecific activity of antimalarial cinchona alkaloids, Carol E. Griffin, Jonathan M. Hoke, Upeka Samarakoon, Junhui Duan, Jianbing Mu, Michael T. Ferdig, David C. Warhurst, and Roland Cooper

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Investigating the Antimalarial Action of 1,2,4-Trioxolanes with Fluorescent Chemical Probes, Carmony L. Hartwig, Erica Lauterwasser, Sumit Mahajan, Jonathan Hoke, Roland Cooper, and Adam Renslo

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Myxobacteria versus sponge-derived alkaloids: the bengamide family identified as potent immune modulating agents by scrutiny of LC-MS/ELSD libraries., Tyler A. Johnson, Johann Sohn, Yvette M. Vaske, Kimberly N. White, Tanya L. Cohen, Helene C. Vervoort, Karen Tenney, Frederick A. Valeriote, Leonard F. Bjeldanes, and Phillip Crews