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

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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

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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