Submissions from 2014
tRNAs as Regulators of Biological Processes, Medha Raina and Michael Ibba
Reduced Amino Acid Specificity of Mammalian Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase is Associated with Elevated Mistranslation of Tyr Codons, Medha Raina, Adil Moghal, Amanda Kano, Mathew Jerums, Paul D. Schnier, Shun Luo, Rohini Deshpande, Pavel D. Bondarenko, Henry Lin, and Michael Ibba
Microgel Mechanics in Biomaterial Design, Shalini Saxena, Caroline E. Hansen, and L. Andrew Lyon
Seasonal Variability of Atmospheric Aerosol Parameters over Greater Noida Using Ground Sunphotometer Observations, Manish Sharma, D. G. Kaskaoutis, Ramesh P. Singh, and Sachchidanand Singh
Relaxed Substrate Specificity Leads to Extensive tRNA Mischarging by Streptococcus pneumoniae Class I and Class II Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases, Jennifer Shepherd and Michael Ibba
Crop Residue Burning: A Threat to South Asian Air Quality, Ramesh Singh and Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis
Regional Dust Storm Modeling for Health Services: The Case of Valley Fever, William A. Sprigg, Slobodan Nickovic, John N. Galgiani, Goran Pejanovic, Slavo Petkovic, Mirjam Vujadinovic, Ana Vukovic, Milan Dacic, Scott DiBiase, Anup K. Prasad, and Hesham el-Askary
Disposable Platform Provides Visual and Color-Based Point-of-Care Anemia Self-Testing, Erika A. Tyburski, Scott E. Gillespie, William A. Stoy, Robert G. Mannino, Alexander J. Weiss, Alexa F. Siu, Rayford H. Bulloch, Karthik Thota, Anyela Cardenas, Wilena Session, Hanna J. Khoury, Siobhán O'Connor, Silvia T. Bunting, Jeanne Boudreaux, Craig R. Forest, Manila Gaddh, Traci Leong, L. Andrew Lyon, and Wilbur A. Lam
Beta-Alanine Suppresses Malignant Breast Epithelial Cell Aggressiveness Through Alterations In Metabolism and Cellular Acidity In Vitro, Roger A. Vaughan, Nicholas P. Gannon, Randi Garcia-Smith, Yamhilette Licon-Munoz, Miguel A. Barberena, Marco Bisoffi, and Kristina A. Trujillo
Numerical Simulation of “An American Haboob”, A. Vukovic, M. Vujadinovic, G. Pejanovic, J. Andric, M. J. Kumjian, V. Djurdjevic, M. Dacic, Anup K. Prasad, Hesham el-Askary, B. C. Paris, S. Petkovic, W. Sprigg, and S. Nickovic
Scaling of Olfactory Antennae of the Terrestrial Hermit Crabs Coenobita rugosus and Coenobita perlatus During Ontogeny, Lindsay D. Waldrop, Roxanne M. Bantay, and Quang V. Nguyen
Coiling and Maturation of a High-Performance Fibre in Hagfish Slime Gland Thread Cells, Timothy Winegard
Light Switchable Optical Materials from Azobenzene Crosslinked Poly (N-Isopropylacrylamide)-Based Microgels, Qiang Matthew Zhang, Xue Li, Molla R. Islam, Menglian Wei, and Michael J. Serpe
Submissions from 2013
Menthol Binding and Inhibition of a7-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Abrar Ashoor, Jacob C. Nordman, Daniel Veltri, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Lina T. Al Kury, Yaroslav M. Shuba, Mohamed Magoub, Frank Christopher Howarth, Bassem Sadek, Amarda Shehu, Nadine Kabbani, and Murat Oz
Air-Sea Dimethylsulfide (Dms) Gas Transfer In the North Atlantic: Evidence For Limited Interfacial Gas Exchange At High Wind Speed, T. G. Bell, Warren J. De Bruyn, S. D. Miller, B. Ward, K. Christensen, and E. S. Saltzman
Annual Patterns of Atmospheric Pollutions and Episodes over Cairo Egypt, Y. Aboel Fetouh, Hesham el-Askary, Mohamed El Raey, Mohamed Allali, W. A. Sprigg, and Menas Kafatos
The Physiology of Invasive Plants in Low-Resource Environments, Jennifer L. Funk
Leaf Traits Within Communities: Context May Affect the Mapping of Traits to Function, Jennifer L. Funk and William K. Cornwell
Differential Allocation to Photosynthetic and Non-Photosynthetic Nitrogen Fractions among Native and Invasive Species, Jennifer L. Funk, Lori A. Glenwinkle, and Lawren Sack
Plastic Deformation, Wrinkling, and Recovery in Microgel Multilayers, Jeffrey C. Gaulding, Mark W. Spears Jr., and L. Andrew Lyon
Resolution by Unassisted Top3 Points to Template Switch Recombination Intermediates during DNA Replication, M. Rebecca Glineburg, Alejandro Chavez, Vishesh Agrawal, Steven J. Brill, and F. Brad Johnson
Divergent Protein Motifs Direct EF-P Mediated Translational Regulation in Salmonella and Escherichia coli, Steven J. Hersch, Mengchi Wang, S. Betty Zou, Kyung-Mee Moon, Leonard J. Foster, Michael Ibba, and William Wiley Navarre
Label-free Detection of Low Protein Concentration in Solution Using a Novel Colorimetric Assay, Molla R. Islam and Michael J. Serpe
Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel-based Etalons and Etalon Arrays for Determining the Molecular Weight of Polymers in Solution, Molla R. Islam and Michael J. Serpe
Molecular Evolution of Protein-RNA Mimicry as a Mechanism for Translational Control, Assaf Katz, Lindsey Solden, S. Betty Zou, William Wiley Navarre, and Michael Ibba
Anaerobic Metabolism In Tidal Freshwater Wetlands: I. Plant Removal Effects on Iron Reduction and Methanogenesis, Jason K. Keller, Ariana E. Sutton-Grier, Allyson L. Bullock, and J. Patrick Megonigal
Solid-Phase Organic Matter Reduction Regulates Anaerobic Decomposition in Bog Soil, Jason K. Keller and Kimberly K. Takagi
Long-Term (1951-2007) Rainfall Trends around Six Indian Cities: Current State, Meteorological, and Urban Dynamics, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, D. G. Kaskaoutis, Anu Rani Sharma, and Ramesh P. Singh
Direction of Aminoacylated Transfer RNAs into Antibiotic Synthesis and Peptidoglycan-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance, Jennifer Shepherd and Michael Ibba
Lipid II-Independent Trans Editing of Mischarged tRNAs by the Penicillin Resistance Factor MurM, Jennifer Shepherd and Michael Ibba
Multi Geophysical Parameters for Earthquake Forecasting, Ramesh P. Singh
Development of Self-Assembling Mixed Protein Micelles with Temperature-Modulated Avidities, Allyson S.C. Soon, Michael H. Smith, Emily S. Herman, L. Andrew Lyon, and Thomas H. Barker
USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: An Analysis of Sargassum horneri Ecosystem Impact, Richelle Tanner and Jim Haw
Ontogenetic Scaling of the Olfactory Antennae and Flicking Behavior of the Shore Crab, Hemigrapsus oregonensis, Lindsay D. Waldrop
Gamete Donor Selection Based on Genetic Calculations. U.S. Patent 8,543,339, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey, Joanna Mountain, J. Michael Macpherson, and Joyce Y. Tung
Submissions from 2012
Assessing Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates In Semiarid Watersheds Using the Usda-Ars Walnut Gulch Gauge Network and Trmm Pr, Eyal Amitai, Carl L. Unkrich, David C. Goodrich, Emad Habib, and Bryson Thill
The Mechanical Behavior of Mutant K14-R125P Keratin Bundles and Networks in NEB-1 Keratinocytes, Daniel R. Beriault, Oualid Haddad, John V. McCuaig, Zachary J. Robinson, David Russell, E. Birgitte Lane, and Douglas S. Fudge
(R)-β-lysine Modified Elongation Factor P Functions in Translation Elongation, Tammy J. Bullwinkle, S. Betty Zou, Andrei Rajkovic, Steven J. Hersch, Sara Elgamal, Nathaniel Robinson, David Smil, Yuri Bolshan, William Wiley Navarre, and Michael Ibba
Structural Properties of Thermoresponsive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-poly(ethyleneglycol) Microgels, J. Clara-Rahola, A. Fernandez-Nieves, B. Sierra-Martin, A. B. South, L. Andrew Lyon, J. Kohlbrecher, and A. F. Barbero
Roles of tRNA in Cell Wall Biosynthesis, Kiley Dare and Michael Ibba
A Functional Trait Perspective on Plant Invasion, Rebecca E. Drenovsky, Brenda J. Grewell, Carla M. D'Antonio, Jennifer L. Funk, Jeremy J. James, Nicole Molinari, Ingrid M. Parker, and Christina L. Richards
Fog- and Cloud-Induced Aerosol Modification Observed by the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), T. F. Eck, B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, D. M. Giles, M. A. Rivas, Ramesh P. Singh, S. N. Tripathi, C. J. Bruegge, S. Platnick, G. T. Arnold, N. A. Krotkov, S. A. Carn, A. Sinyuk, O. Dubovik, A. Arola, J. S. Schafer, P. Artaxo, A. Smirnov, H. Chen, and P. Goloub
Cryo-EM Structure of the Archaeal 50S Ribosomal Subunit in Complex with Initiation Factor 6 and Implications for Ribosome Evolution, Basil J. Greber, Daniel Boehringer, Vlatka Godinic-Mikulcic, Ana Crnkovic, Michael Ibba, Ivana Weygand-Durasevic, and Nenad Ban
Regulation of Hard α-keratin Mechanics via Control of Intermediate Filament Hydration: Matrix Squeeze Revisited, Daniel A. Greenberg and Douglas S. Fudge
Cryptic Distant Relatives Are Common in Both Isolated and Cosmopolitan Genetic Samples, Brenna M. Henn, Lawrence S. Hon, J. Michael Macpherson, Nicholas Eriksson, Serge Saxonov, Itsik Pe'er, and Joanna Mountain
Synergistic Use of Remote Sensing and Modeling for Tracing Dust Storms in the Mediterranean, D. G. Kaskaoutis, Anup K. Prasad, P. G. Kosmopoulos, P. R. Sinha, S. K. Kharol, P. Gupta, Hesham el-Askary, and Menas Kafatos
Influence of anomalous dry conditions on aerosols over India: Transport, distribution and properties, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Ritesh Gautam, Ramesh P. Singh, E. E. Housos, D. Goto, S. Singh, A. Bartzokas, P. G. Kosmopoulos, Manish Sharma, N. C. Hsu, B. N. Holben, and T. Takemura
Variability and Trends of Aerosol Properties over Kanpur, Northern India Using AERONET Data (2001–10), Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Ramesh P. Singh, Ritesh Gautam, Manish Sharma, P. G. Kosmopoulos, and S. N. Tripathi
Soil Organic Carbon Storage in Restored Salt Marshes in Huntington Beach, California, Jason K. Keller, Kimberly K. Takagi, Morgan E. Brown, Kellie N. Stump, and Chelsea G. Takahashi
Toward a Framework For Systematic Error Modeling Of Spaceborne Precipitation Radar With Noaa/Nssl Ground Radar Based National Mosaic Qpe, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, Y. Hong, J. J. Gourley, S. Chen, Z. Flamig, J. Zhang, M. Schwaller, W. Peterson, and Eyal Amitai
Association of a Multi-Synthetase Complex with Translating Ribosomes in the Archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis, Medha Raina, Sara Elgamal, Thomas J. Santangelo, and Michael Ibba
Taking AIM at the Start of Translation, Medha Raina and Michael Ibba
A Pseudo-tRNA Modulates Antibiotic Resistance in Bacillus cereus, Theresa E. Rogers, Sandro F. Ataide, Kiley Dare, Assaf Katz, Stephanie Seveau, Hervé Roy, and Michael Ibba
Insight: How Do Aerosols Vary Over Northern India?, Ramesh P. Singh
Personality Type Differences Between Ph.D. Climate Researchers and the General Public: Implications for Effective Communication, C. Susan Weiler, Jason K. Keller, and Christina Olex
Selection of tRNA Charging Quality Control Mechanisms That Increase Mistranslation of the Genetic Code, Srujana S. Yadavalli and Michael Ibba
Submissions from 2011
Evaluation Of Satellite-Retrieved Extreme Precipitation Rates Across the Central United States, A. AghaKoucak, A. Behrangi, S. Sorooshian, K. Hsu, and Eyal Amitai
Analysis of Agonism and Inverse Agonism in Functional Assays with Constitutive Activity: Estimation of Orthosteric Ligand Affinity Constants for Active and Inactive Receptor States, Frederick J. Ehlert, Michael T. Griffin, and Hinako Suga
Analysis of Functional Responses at G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Estimation of Relative Affinity Constants for the Inactive Receptor Sstate, Frederick J. Ehlert, Michael T. Griffin, and Hinako Suga
Quantifying Agonist Activity at G Protein-coupled Receptors, Frederick J. Ehlert, Hinako Suga, and Michael T. Griffin
Intermediate Filaments Regulate Tissue Size and Stiffness in the Murine Lens, Douglas S. Fudge, John V. McCuaig, Shannon Van Stralen, John F. Hess, Huan Wang, Richard T. Mathias, and Paul G. FitzGerald
Three-Year Ground Based Measurements of Aerosol Optical Depth over the Eastern Mediterranean: The Urban Environment of Athens, E. Gerasopoulos, V. Amiridis, S. Kazadzis, P. Kokkalis, K. Eleftheratos, M. O. Andrae, T. W. Andrae, Hesham el-Askary, and C S. Zerefos
Aerosol Properties Over the Indo‐Gangetic Plain: A Mesoscale Perspective from the TIGERZ Experiment, D. M. Giles, B. N. Holben, Sachchida N. Tripathi, Thomas F. Eck, W. Wayne Newcomb, Ilya Slutsker, Russell R. Dickerson, Anne M. Thompson, Shana Mattoo, Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Ramesh P. Singh, Aliaksandyr Sinyuk, and Joel S. Schafer
Beta-lysine Discrimination by Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase, Marla S. Gilreath, Hervé Roy, Tammy J. Bullwinkle, Assaf Katz, Michael Ibba, and William Wiley Navarre
Control of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel Network Structure by Precipitation Polymerization near the Lower Critical Solution Temperature, Xiaobo Hu, Zhen Tong, and L. Andrew Lyon
Synthesis and Physicochemical Properties of Cationic Microgels Based on Poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide), Xiaobo Hu, Zhen Tong, and L. Andrew Lyon
Contrasting Aerosol Trends Over South Asia During the Last Decade Based on MODIS Observations, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, P. R. Sinha, Ramesh P. Singh, K. V. S. Badarinath, Waseem Mehdi, and Manish Sharma
Extremely Large Anthropogenic-Aerosol Contribution to Total Aerosol Load over the Bay of Bengal During Winter Season, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Shailesh Kumar Kharol, P. R. Sinha, Ramesh P. Singh, H. D. Kambezidis, Anu Rani Sharma, and K. V. S. Bardarinath
Communication: Bubbles, Crystals, and Laser-Induced Nucleation, Brandon C. Knott, Jerry L. LaRue, Alec M. Wodtke, Michael F. Doherty, and Baron Peters
Aerosol Climatology Over Nile Delta Based on MODIS, MISR and OMI Satellite Data, H. S. Marey, J. C. Gille, Hesham el-Askary, E. A. Shalaby, and Mohamed El Raey
An Upper Limit for Macromolecular Crowding Effects, Andrew C. Miklos, Congang Li, Courtney D. Sorell, L. Andrew Lyon, and Gary J. Pielak
The tRNA Synthetase Paralog PoxA Modifies Elongation Factor-P with (R)-β-lysine, Hervé Roy, S. Betty Zou, Tammy J. Bullwinkle, Benjamin S. Wolfe, Marla S. Gilreath, Craig J. Forsyth, William Wiley Navarre, and Michael Ibba
Climatic Drivers of Potential Hazards in Mediterranean Coasts, Agustin Sanchez-Arcilla, Cesar Mosso, Joan Pau Sierra, Marc Mestres, Ali Harzallah, Mohamed Senouci, Mohamed El Raey, and Hesham el-Askary
Estimation of NOx Emissions from Delhi Using Car MAX-DOAS Observations and Comparison with OMI Satellite Data, R. Shaiganfar, S. Beirle, Manish Sharma, A. Chauhan, Ramesh P. Singh, and T. Wagner
Bulk Modulus of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgels Through the Swelling Transition, B. Sierra-Martin, Y. Laporte, A. B. South, L. Andrew Lyon, and A. Fernandez-Nieves
Report on the Workshop “Electromagnetic Studies of Earthquakes and Volcanoes (EMSEV)”, Ramesh P. Singh
Network Deconstruction Reveals Network Structure in Responsive Microgels, Michael H. Smith, Emily S. Herman, and L. Andrew Lyon
Tunable Encapsulation of Proteins within Charged Microgels, Michael H. Smith and L. Andrew Lyon
Can Resource-Use Traits Predict Native vs. Exotic Plant Success in Carbon Amended Soils?, Robert J. Steers, Jennifer L. Funk, and Edith B. Allen
Efficient Replication of over 180 Genetic Associations with Self-Reported Medical Data, Joyce Y. Tung, Chuong B. Do, David A. Hinds, Amy K. Kiefer, J. Michael Macpherson, Arnab B. Chowdry, Uta Francke, Brian Naughton, Joanna Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, and Nicholas Eriksson
Loss of Elongation Factor P Disrupts Bacterial Outer-Membrane Integrity, S. Betty Zou, Steven J. Hersch, Hervé Roy, J. Brad Wiggers, Andrea S. Leung, Stephen Buranyi, Jinglin Lucy Xie, Kiley Dare, Michael Ibba, and William Wiley Navarre
Elongation Factor P Mediates a Novel Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Pathway Critical for Bacterial Virulence, S. Betty Zou, Hervé Roy, Michael Ibba, and William Wiley Navarre
Submissions from 2010
Post-Coring Entrapment Of Modern Air In Some Shallow Ice Cores Collected Near the Firn-Ice Transition: Evidence From Cfc-12 Measurements In Antarctic Firn Air and Ice Cores, Murat Aydin, S. A. Montzka, M. O. Battle, M. B. Williams, Warren J. De Bruyn, J. H. Butler, K. R. Verhulst, C. Tatum, B. K. Gun, D. A. Plotkin, B. D. Hall, and Eric S. Saltzman
Chronic Inflammatory Responses to Microgel-Based Implant Coatings, Amanda W. Bridges, Rachel E. Whitmire, Neetu Singh, Kellie L. Templeman, Julia E. Babensee, L. Andrew Lyon, and Andrés J. García
Chemosensitization of Cancer Cells by siRNA Using Targeted Nanogel Delivery, Erin B. Dickerson, William H. Blackburn, Michael H. Smith, Laura B. Kapa, L. Andrew Lyon, and John F. McDonald
Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode aerosol mixtures, Thomas F. Eck, B. N. Holben, Aliaksandyr Sinyuk, R. T. Pinker, P. Goloub, H. Chen, B. Chatenet, Z. Li, Ramesh P. Singh, Sachchida N. Tripathi, J. S. Reid, D. M. Giles, O. Dubovik, N. T. O'Neill, A. Smirnov, P. Wang, and X. Xia
Web-Based, Participant-Driven Studies Yield Novel Genetic Associations for Common Traits, Nicholas Eriksson, J. Michael Macpherson, Joyce Y. Tung, Lawrence S. Hon, Brian Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Linda Avey, Anne Wojcicki, Itsik Pe'er, and Joanna Mountain
Cooperative Melting in Caged Dimers with Only Two DNA Duplexes, Ibrahim Eryazici, Tatiana Prytkova, George C. Schatz, and SonBinh T. Nguyen
How the Sequence of a Gene Can Tune Its Translation, Kurt Fredrick and Michael Ibba
An Archaeal tRNA-Synthetase Complex That Enhances Aminoacylation Under Extreme Conditions, Vlatka Godinic-Mikulcic, Jelena Jaric, Corinne D. Hausmann, Michael Ibba, and Ivana Weygand-Durasevic
Protein Evolution via Amino Acid and Codon Elimination, Lise Goltermann, Marie Sofie Yoo Larsen, Ranat Banerjee, Andreas C. Joerger, Michael Ibba, and Thomas Bentin
Microgel Translocation through Pores under Confinement, Grant R. Hendrickson and L. Andrew Lyon
Stabilization and Swelling of Hagfish Slime Mucin Vesicles, J. E. Herr, T. M. Winegard, M. J. O'Donnell, P. H. Yancey, and Douglas S. Fudge
Redox Status Affects the Catalytic Activity of Glutamyl-tRNA Synthetase, Assaf Katz, Ranat Banerjee, Merly de Armas, Michael Ibba, and Omar Orellana
Equal BMD After Daily Or Triweekly Exercise In Growing Rats, B. D. Kayser, J. K. Godfrey, R. M. Cunningham, R. A. Pierce, S. V. Jaque, and Ken D. Sumida
Vibrationally Promoted Electron Emission at a Metal Surface: Electron Kinetic Energy Distributions, Jerry L. LaRue, Tim Schäfer, Daniel Matsiev, Luis Velarde, N. Hendrick Nahler, Daniel J. Auerbach, and Alec M. Wodtke
A Fish Out of Water: Gill and Skin Remodeling Promotes Osmo- and Ionoregulation in the Mangrove Killifish Kryptolebias marmoratus, Danielle M. LeBlanc, Chris M. Wood, Douglas S. Fudge, and Patricia A. Wright
Using DNA to Link Gold Nanoparticles, Polymers and Molecules: a Theoretical Perspective, One-Sun Lee, Tatiana Prytkova, and George C. Schatz
PoxA, YjeK and Elongation Factor P Coordinately Modulate Virulence and Drug Resistance in Salmonella enterica, William Wiley Navarre, Shicong Zou, Hervé Roy, Jinglin Lucy Xie, Alexei Savchenko, Alexander Singer, Elena Edvokimova, Lynne R. Prost, Runjun Kumar, Michael Ibba, and Ferric C. Fang
Different Training Volumes Yield Equivalent Increases In Bmd, R. A. Pierce, L. C. Lee, C. P. Ahles, S. M. Shdo, S. V. Jaque, and Ken D. Sumida