• The chloroplast genomes of Bryopsis plumosa and Tydemania expeditiones (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta): compact genomes and genes of bacterial origin 

  Leliaert, Frederik; Lopez-Bautista, Juan M. (BMC, 2015)

  Background: Species of Bryopsidales form ecologically important components of seaweed communities worldwide. These siphonous macroalgae are composed of a single giant tubular cell containing millions of nuclei and chloroplasts, ...
• The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization 

  Sadd, Ben M.; Barribeau, Seth M.; Bloch, Guy; de Graaf, Dirk C.; Dearden, Peter; Elsik, Christine G.; Gadau, Juergen; Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J. P.; Hasselmann, Martin; Lozier, Jeffrey D.; Robertson, Hugh M.; Smagghe, Guy; Stolle, Eckart; Van Vaerenbergh, Matthias; Waterhouse, Robert M.; Bornberg-Bauer, Erich; Klasberg, Steffen; Bennett, Anna K.; Camara, Francisco; Guigo, Roderic; Hoff, Katharina; Mariotti, Marco; Munoz-Torres, Monica; Murphy, Terence; Santesmasses, Didac; Amdam, Gro V.; Beckers, Matthew; Beye, Martin; Biewer, Matthias; Bitondi, Marcia M. G.; Blaxter, Mark L.; Bourke, Andrew F. G.; Brown, Mark J. F.; Buechel, Severine D.; Cameron, Rossanah; Cappelle, Kaat; Carolan, James C.; Christiaens, Olivier; Ciborowski, Kate L.; Clarke, David F.; Colgan, Thomas J.; Collins, David H.; Cridge, Andrew G.; Dalmay, Tamas; Dreier, Stephanie; du Plessis, Louis; Duncan, Elizabeth; Erler, Silvio; Evans, Jay; Falcon, Tiago; Flores, Kevin; Freitas, Flavia C. P.; Fuchikawa, Taro; Gempe, Tanja; Hartfelder, Klaus; Hauser, Frank; Helbing, Sophie; Humann, Fernanda C.; Irvine, Frano; Jermiin, Lars S.; Johnson, Claire E.; Johnson, Reed M.; Jones, Andrew K.; Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko; Kidner, Jonathan H.; Koch, Vasco; Koehler, Arian; Kraus, F. Bernhard; Lattorff, H. Michael G.; Leask, Megan; Lockett, Gabrielle A.; Mallon, Eamonn B.; Antonio, David S. Marco; Marxer, Monika; Meeus, Ivan; Moritz, Robin F. A.; Nair, Ajay; Napflin, Kathrin; Nissen, Inga; Niu, Jinzhi; Nunes, Francis M. F.; Oakeshott, John G.; Osborne, Amy; Otte, Marianne; Pinheiro, Daniel G.; Rossie, Nina; Rueppell, Olav; Santos, Carolina G.; Schmid-Hempel, Regula; Schmitt, Bjoern D.; Schulte, Christina; Simoes, Zila L. P.; Soares, Michelle P. M.; Swevers, Luc; Winnebeck, Eva C.; Wolschin, Florian; Yu, Na; Zdobnov, Evgeny M.; Aqrawi, Peshtewani K.; Blankenburg, Kerstin P.; Coyle, Marcus; Francisco, Liezl; Hernandez, Alvaro G.; Holder, Michael; Hudson, Matthew E.; Jackson, LaRonda; Jayaseelan, Joy; Joshi, Vandita; Kovar, Christie; Lee, Sandra L.; Mata, Robert; Mathew, Tittu; Newsham, Irene F.; Ngo, Robin; Okwuonu, Geoffrey; Pham, Christopher; Pu, Ling-Ling; Saada, Nehad; Santibanez, Jireh; Simmons, DeNard; Thornton, Rebecca; Venkat, Aarti; Walden, Kimberly K. O.; Wu, Yuan-Qing; Debyser, Griet; Devreese, Bart; Asher, Claire; Blommaert, Julie; Chipman, Ariel D.; Chittka, Lars; Fouks, Bertrand; Liu, Jisheng; O'Neill, Meaghan P.; Sumner, Seirian; Puiu, Daniela; Qu, Jiaxin; Salzberg, Steven L.; Scherer, Steven E.; Muzny, Donna M.; Richards, Stephen; Robinson, Gene E.; Gibbs, Richard A.; Schmid-Hempel, Paul; Worley, Kim C. (BMC, 2015)

  Background: The shift from solitary to social behavior is one of the major evolutionary transitions. Primitively eusocial bumblebees are uniquely placed to illuminate the evolution of highly eusocial insect societies. ...
• Genetic characterization of caffeine degradation by bacteria and its potential applications 

  Summers, Ryan M.; Mohanty, Sujit K.; Gopishetty, Sridhar; Subramanian, Mani (Wiley, 2015)

  The ability of bacteria to grow on caffeine as sole carbon and nitrogen source has been known for over 40 years. Extensive research into this subject has revealed two distinct pathways, N-demethylation and C-8 oxidation, ...
• Endoplasmic reticulum stress impairment in the spinal dorsal horn of a neuropathic pain model 

  Zhang, Enji; Yi, Min-Hee; Shin, Nara; Baek, Hyunjung; Kim, Sena; Kim, Eunjee; Kwon, Kisang; Lee, Sunyeul; Kim, Hyun-Woo; Bae, Yong Chul; Kim, Yonghyun; Kwon, O. -Yu; Lee, Won Hyung; Kim, Dong Woon (Nature Portfolio, 2015)

  Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, but its role in neuropathic pain remains unclear. In this study, we examined the ER stress and the unfolded protein response (UPR) ...
• Synthesis of Hierarchical Nanoporous Microstructures via the Kirkendall Effect in Chemical Reduction Process 

  Gao, Ling; Pang, Chao; He, Dafang; Shen, Liming; Gupta, Arunava; Bao, Ningzhong (Nature Portfolio, 2015)

  A series of novel hierarchical nanoporous microstructures have been synthesized through one-step chemical reduction of micron size Cu2O and Co3O4 particles. By controlling the reduction time, nonporous Cu2O microcubes ...
• Secretome identification of immune cell factors mediating metastatic cell homing 

  Aguado, Brian A.; Wu, Jia J.; Azarin, Samira M.; Nanavati, Dhaval; Rao, Shreyas S.; Bushnell, Grace G.; Medicherla, Chaitanya B.; Shea, Lonnie D. (Nature Portfolio, 2015)

  Metastatic cell homing is a complex process mediated in part by diffusible factors secreted from immune cells found at a pre-metastatic niche. We report on connecting secretomics and TRanscriptional Activity CEll aRray ...
• Direct conversion of theophylline to 3-methylxanthine by metabolically engineered E-coli 

  Algharrawi, Khalid H. R.; Summers, Ryan M.; Gopishetty, Sridhar; Subramanian, Mani (BMC, 2015)

  Background: Methylxanthines are natural and synthetic compounds found in many foods, drinks, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Aside from caffeine, production of many methylxanthines is currently performed by chemical ...
• Growth and stress response mechanisms underlying post- feeding regenerative organ growth in the Burmese python 

  Andrew, Audra L.; Perry, Blair W.; Card, Daren C.; Schield, Drew R.; Ruggiero, Robert P.; McGaugh, Suzanne E.; Choudhary, Amit; Secor, Stephen M.; Castoe, Todd A. (BMC, 2017)

  Background: Previous studies examining post-feeding organ regeneration in the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) have identified thousands of genes that are significantly differentially regulated during this process. ...
• Efficient dehydration and recovery of ionic liquid after lignocellulosic processing using pervaporation 

  Sun, Jian; Shi, Jian; Konda, N. V. S. N. Murthy; Campos, Dan; Liu, Dajiang; Nemser, Stuart; Shamshina, Julia; Dutta, Tanmoy; Berton, Paula; Gurau, Gabriela; Rogers, Robin D.; Simmons, Blake A.; Singh, Seema (Biomed Central, 2017)

  Background: Biomass pretreatment using certain ionic liquids (ILs) is very efficient, generally producing a substrate that is amenable to saccharification with fermentable sugar yields approaching theoretical limits. ...
• Engineering the pre-metastatic niche 

  Aguado, Brian A.; Bushnell, Grace G.; Rao, Shreyas S.; Jeruss, Jacqueline S.; Shea, Lonnie D. (Nature Portfolio, 2017)

  The pre-metastatic niche -the accumulation of aberrant immune cells and extracellular-matrix proteins in target organs primes the initially healthy organ microenvironment and renders it amenable for subsequent colonization ...
• Confinement Effects on Carbon Dioxide Methanation: A Novel Mechanism for Abiotic Methane Formation 

  Le, Thu; Striolo, Alberto; Turner, C. Heath; Cole, David R. (Nature Portfolio, 2017)

  An important scientific debate focuses on the possibility of abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons during oceanic crust-seawater interactions. While on-site measurements near hydrothermal vents support this possibility, ...
• Tissue Anisotropy Modeling Using Soft Composite Materials 

  Chanda, Arnab; Callaway, Christian (Hindawi, 2018)

  Soft tissues in general exhibit anisotropic mechanical behavior, which varies in three dimensions based on the location of the tissue in the body. In the past, there have been few attempts to numerically model tissue ...
• Host-associated microbiomes are predicted by immune system complexity and climate 

  Woodhams, Douglas C.; Bletz, Molly C.; Becker, C. Guilherme; Bender, Hayden A.; Buitrago-Rosas, Daniel; Diebboll, Hannah; Huynh, Roger; Kearns, Patrick J.; Kueneman, Jordan; Kurosawa, Emmi; LaBumbard, Brandon C.; Lyons, Casandra; McNally, Kerry; Schliep, Klaus; Shankar, Nachiket; Tokash-Peters, Amanda G.; Vences, Miguel; Whetstone, Ross (BMC, 2020)

  Background Host-associated microbiomes, the microorganisms occurring inside and on host surfaces, influence evolutionary, immunological, and ecological processes. Interactions between host and microbiome affect metabolism ...
• Semicontinuous sophorolipid fermentation using a novel bioreactor with dual ventilation pipes and dual sieve-plates coupled with a novel separation system 

  Zhang, Yaguang; Jia, Dan; Sun, Wanqi; Yang, Xue; Zhang, Chuanbo; Zhao, Fanglong; Lu, Wenyu (Wiley, 2018)

  Sophorolipids (SLs) are biosurfactants with widespread applications. The yield and purity of SLs are two important factors to be considered during their commercial large-scale production. Notably, SL accumulation causes ...
• Host-associated microbiomes are predicted by immune system complexity and climate (vol 21, 23, 2020) 

  Woodhams, Douglas C.; Bletz, Molly C.; Becker, C. Guilherme; Bender, Hayden A.; Buitrago-Rosas, Daniel; Diebboll, Hannah; Huynh, Roger; Kearns, Patrick J.; Kueneman, Jordan; Kurosawa, Emmi; LaBumbard, Brandon C.; Lyons, Casandra; McNally, Kerry; Schliep, Klaus; Shankar, Nachiket; Tokash-Peters, Amanda G.; Vences, Miguel; Whetstone, Ross (BMC, 2020)
• Improved computational method to generate properly equilibrated atomistic microstructures 

  Gupta, Ankit; Rajaram, Satish S.; Thompson, Gregory B.; Tucker, Garritt J. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Atomistic simulations play an important role in unravelling the fundamental behavior of nanocrystalline (NC) metals/alloys. To ensure the validity of the simulated results, the initial NC structures must be representative ...
• Combined Syngas and Hydrogen Production using Gas Switching Technology 

  Ugwu, Ambrose; Zaabout, Abdelghafour; Donat, Felix; van Diest, Geert; Albertsen, Knuth; Muller, Christoph; Amini, Shahriar (American Chemical Society, 2021)

  This paper focuses on the experimental demonstration of a threestage GST (gas switching technology) process (fuel, steam/CO2, and air stages) for syngas production from methane in the fuel stage and H-2/CO production in ...
• In-situ observation of trapped carriers in organic metal halide perovskite films with ultra-fast temporal and ultra-high energetic resolutions 

  Kobbekaduwa, Kanishka; Shrestha, Shreetu; Adhikari, Pan; Liu, Exian; Coleman, Lawrence; Zhang, Jianbing; Shi, Ying; Zhou, Yuanyuan; Bekenstein, Yehonadav; Yan, Feng; Rao, Apparao M.; Tsai, Hsinhan; Beard, Matthew C.; Nie, Wanyi; Gao, Jianbo (Nature Portfolio, 2021)

  We in-situ observe the ultrafast dynamics of trapped carriers in organic methyl ammonium lead halide perovskite thin films by ultrafast photocurrent spectroscopy with a sub-25 picosecond time resolution. Upon ultrafast ...
• Co-culturing experiments reveal the uptake of myo-inositol phosphate synthase (EC 5.5.1.4) in an inositol auxotroph of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 

  Steele, Erika; Alebous, Hana D.; Vickers, Macy; Harris, Mary E.; Johnson, Margaret D. (BMC, 2021)

  BackgroundMyo-Inositol Phosphate Synthase (MIP) catalyzes the conversion of glucose 6- phosphate into inositol phosphate, an essential nutrient and cell signaling molecule. Data obtained, first in bovine brain and later ...
• Applications of capillary action in drug delivery 

  Li, Xiaosi; Zhao, Yue; Zhao, Chao (Cell Press, 2021)

  Contrary to the fact that capillary action is ubiquitous in our daily lives, its role in drug delivery has not attracted attention. Therefore, its application in medicine and disease treatment has not been actively developed. ...

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