Below you may find selected research articles from Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences faculty in the Schmid College of Science and Technology.

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Submissions from 2009

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Two Contrasting Dust-Dominant Periods over India Observed from MODIS and CALIPSO Data, Ritesh Gautam, Zhaoyan Liu, Ramesh P. Singh, and N. Christina Hsu

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Interrupted Resistance Training and BMD In Growing Rats, J. K. Godfrey, B. D. Kayser, G. V. Gomez, Jason Bennett, S. V. Jaque, and Ken D. Sumida

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The Guinea Pig Ileum Lacks the Direct, High-Potency, M2-Muscarinic, Contractile Mechanism Characteristic of the Mouse Ileum, Michael T. Griffin, Minoru Matsui, Rennolds S. Ostrom, and Frederick J. Ehlert

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Annual Variability of water vapor from GPS and MODIS data over the Indo-Gangetic Plains, Sanjay Kumar, A. K. Singh, Anup K. Prasad, and Ramesh P. Singh

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Resampling and Editing of Mischarged tRNA Prior to Translation Elongation, Jiqiang Ling, Byung Ran So, Srujana S. Yadavalli, Hervé Roy, Shinichiro Shoji, Kurt Fredrick, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Michael Ibba

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Open Ocean Dms Air/Sea Fluxes Over the Eastern South Pacific Ocean, C. A. Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, S. D. Miller, and E. S. Saltzman

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Physical Aging and Phase Behavior of Multiresponsive Microgel Colloidal Dispersions, Zhiyong Meng, Jae Kyu Cho, Victor Breedveld, and L. Andrew Lyon

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Air-Sea Gas Exchange Of Co2 and Dms In the North Atlantic By Eddy Covariance, Scott Miller, Christa Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, and Eric S. Saltzman

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Validation of MODIS Terra, AIRS, NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis-2, and AERONET Sun Photometer Derived Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor Using Ground-Based GPS Receivers over India, Anup K. Prasad and Ramesh P. Singh

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Melting of Major Glaciers in the Western Himalayas: Evidence of Climatic Changes from Long Term MSU Derived Tropospheric Temperature Trend (1979-2008), Anup K. Prasad, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Hesham el-Askary, and Menas Kafatos

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Adaptation of the Bacterial Membrane to Changing Environments Using Aminoacylated Phospholipids, Hervé Roy, Kiley Dare, and Michael Ibba

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Broad Range Amino Acid Specificity of RNA-Dependent Lipid Remodelling by Multiple Peptide Resistance Factors, Hervé Roy and Michael Ibba

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A Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer For Continuous Underway Shipboard Analysis Of Dimethylsulfide In Near-Surface Seawater, Eric S. Saltzman, Warren J. De Bruyn, M. J. Lawler, Christa Marandino, and C. A. McCormick

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Variability of Soil Wetness and Its Relation with Floods over the Indian Subcontinent, Ramesh P. Singh, Rajneesh Kumar, and Vinod Tare

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Centrifugal Deposition of Microgels for the Rapid Assembly of Nonfouling Thin Films, Antoinette B. South, Rachel E. Whitmire, Andrés J. García, and L. Andrew Lyon

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Large-Scale Movement of Functional Domains Facilitates Aminoacylation by Human Mitochondrial Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase, Srujana S. Yadavalli, Liron Klipcan, Alexey Zozulya, Ranat Banerjee, Dmitri Svergun, Mark Safro, and Michael Ibba

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Characterization of Two Seryl-tRNA Synthetases in Albomycin-producing Streptomyces sp. ATCC 700974, Yu Zeng, Hervé Roy, Preeti B. Patil, Michael Ibba, and Shawn Chen

Submissions from 2008

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Size-Controlled Synthesis of Monodisperse Core/Shell Nanogels, William H. Blackburn and L. Andrew Lyon

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Plant Functional Types Do Not Predict Biomass Responses to Removal and Fertilization in Alaskan Tussock Tundra, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, Michelle C. Mack, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Daniel B. Sloan, Jennie DeMarco, Gaius R. Shaver, Peter M. Ray, Zy Biesinger, and F. Stuart Chapin

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Reduced Acute Inflammatory Responses to Microgel Conformal Coatings, Amanda W. Bridges, Neetu Singh, Kellie L. Burns, Julia E. Babensee, L. Andrew Lyon, and Andrés J. García

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Salt Marshes As a Source Of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (Cdom) To Southern California Coastal Waters, Catherine D. Clark, Liannea P. Litz, and Stanley B. Grant

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Two-State Models and the Analysis of the Allosteric Effect of Gallamine at the M2 Muscarinic Receptor, Frederick J. Ehlert and Michael T. Griffin

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Dust Storm and Black Cloud Influence on Aerosol Optical Properties over Cairo and the Greater Delta Region, Egypt, Hesham el-Askary and Menas Kafatos

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The Intermediate Filament Network in Cultured Human Keratinocytes Is Remarkably Extensible and Resilient, Douglas S. Fudge, David Russell, Daniel R. Beriault, Whitney Moore, E. Birgitte Lane, and A. Wayne Vogl

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Interrupted Vs. Uninterrupted Training on BMD During Growth, B. M. Goettsch, M. Z. Smith, J. A. O'Brien, G. V. Gomez, S. V. Jaque, and Ken D. Sumida

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High Rate of Recent Transposable Element–Induced Adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster, Josefa Gonzalez, Kapa Lenkov, Mikhail Lipatov, J. Michael Macpherson, and Dmitri A. Petrov

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Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Complexes: Molecular Multitasking Revealed, Corinne D. Hausmann and Michael Ibba

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Structural and Functional Mapping of the Archaeal Multi-aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Complex, Corinne D. Hausmann and Michael Ibba

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Monitoring Lys-tRNALys Phosphatidylglycerol Transferase Activity, Michael Ibba

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The Work Function of Submonolayer Cesium-Covered Gold: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study, Jerry L. LaRue, J. D. White, N. H. Nahler, Z. Liu, Y. Sun, P. A. Pianetta, Daniel J. Auerbach, and Alec M. Wodtke

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Dms Air/Sea Flux and Gas Transfer Coefficients From the North Atlantic Summertime Coccolithophore Bloom, Christa Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, Scott Miller, and Eric S. Saltzman

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Inverse Velocity Dependence of Vibrationally Promoted Electron Emission from a Metal Surface, N. H. Nahler, J. D. White, Jerry L. LaRue, Daniel J. Auerbach, and Alec M. Wodtke

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RNA-Dependent Lipid Remodeling by Bacterial Multiple Peptide Resistance Factors, Hervé Roy and Michael Ibba

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Synthesis of Multifunctional Nanogels Using a Protected Macromonomer Approach, Neetu Singh and L. Andrew Lyon

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Resistance Training and Bone Mineral Density During Growth, M. Z. Smith, B. M. Goettsch, R. D. Van Ramshorst, J. A. O'Brien, S. V. Jaque, and Ken D. Sumida

Submissions from 2007

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Efficient PCA Fusion Techniques for MISR Multi-angle Observations with Applications to Monitoring Dust Storms, Abhishek Agarwal, Hesham el-Askary, Tarek El-Ghawazi, Menas Kafatos, and Jacqueline Le-Moigne

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Mechanisms of Resistance to an Amino Acid Antibiotic That Targets Translation, Sandro F. Ataide, Sharnise N. Wilson, Sandy Dang, Theresa E. Rogers, Bappaditya Roy, Ranat Banerjee, Tina M. Henkin, and Michael Ibba

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Music to His Antennae, Douglas S. Fudge

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She's Got Legs, Douglas S. Fudge

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Peroxin Pex21p Interacts with C-terminal Noncatalytic Domain of Yeast Seryl-tRNA Synthetase and Forms a Specific Ternary Complex with tRNASer, Vlatka Godinic, Marko Mocibob, Sandra Rocak, Michael Ibba, and Ivana Weygand-Durasevic

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The Function of Stilt Roots in the Growth Strategy of Socratea exorrhiza (Arecaceae) at Two Neotropical Sites, Gregory R. Goldsmith and Rakan A. Zahawi

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Estimation of Agonist Activity at G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Analysis of M2 Muscarinic Receptor Signaling through Gi/o, Gs, and G15, Michael T. Griffin, Katherine W. Figueroa, Sarah Liller, and Frederick J. Ehlert

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An Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase: Elongation Factor Complex for Substrate Channeling in Archaeal Translation, Corinne D. Hausmann, Mette Praetorius-Ibba, and Michael Ibba

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Differential Classical Conditioning of the Gill-Withdrawal Reflex In Aplysia Recruits Both Nmda Receptor-Dependent Enhancement and Nmda Receptor-Dependent Depression Of the Reflex, Shekib A. Jami, William G. Wright, and David L. Glanzman

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Pathways of Anaerobic Carbon Cycling Across an Ombrotrophic–Minerotrophic Peatland Gradient, Jason K. Keller and Scott D. Bridgham

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Anticodon Recognition and Discrimination by the Alpha-Helix Cage Domain of Class I Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase, Jeffrey D. Levengood, Hervé Roy, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Dieter Söll, Osamu Nureki, and Michael Ibba

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Mechanism of tRNA-Dependent Editing in Translational Quality Control, Jiaqing Ling, Hervé Roy, and Michael Ibba

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Pathogenic Mechanism of a Human Mitochondrial tRNAPhe Mutation Associated with MERRF syndrome, Jiaqing Ling, Hervé Roy, Daoming Qin, Mary Anne T. Rubio, Juan D. Alfonzo, Kurt Fredrick, and Michael Ibba

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Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase Editing Defects Result in Efficient Mistranslation of Phenylalanine Codons as Tyrosine, Jiqiang Ling, Srujana S. Yadavalli, and Michael Ibba

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Genomewide Spatial Correspondence Between Nonsynonymous Divergence and Neutral Polymorphism Reveals Extensive Adaptation in Drosophila, J. Michael Macpherson, Guy Sella, Jerel C. Davis, and Dmitri A. Petrov

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Eddy Correlation Measurements Of the Air/Sea Flux Of Dimethylsulfide Over the North Pacific Ocean, Christa A. Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, Scott D. Miller, and Eric S. Saltzman

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The Endogenous Cannabinoid Anandamide Inhibits Cromakalim-Activated K+ Currents in Follicle-Enclosed Xenopus Oocytes, Murat Oz, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Meral Dinc, and Toni S. Shippenberg

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Cholecystokinin B-type Receptors Mediate a G-Protein-Dependent Depolarizing Action of Sulphated Cholecystokinin Ocatapeptide (CCK-8s) on Rodent Neonatal Spinal Ventral Horn Neurons, Murat Oz, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Toni S. Shippenberg, Leo P. Renaud, and Michael J. O'Donovan

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Coupling Coherence Distinguishes Structure Sensitivity in Protein Electron Transfer, Tatiana Prytkova, Igor V. Kurnikov, and David Beratan

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Similar Levels of X-linked and Autosomal Nucleotide Variation in African and Non-African populations of Drosophila melanogaster, Nadia D. Singh, J. Michael Macpherson, Jeffrey D. Jensen, and Dmitri A. Petrov

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Flavin Charge Transfer Transitions Assist DNA Photolyase Electron Transfer, Spiros S. Skourtis, Tatiana Prytkova, and David Beratan

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Effect of Wave Action on Movement in the Owl Limpet, Lottia gigantea, in Santa Cruz, California, William G. Wright and James W. Nybakken

Submissions from 2006

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Bouncing Bites, Douglas S. Fudge

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Getting a Jump on the Competition, Douglas S. Fudge

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Jaws of Life, Douglas S. Fudge

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Nano-fast Nematocysts, Douglas S. Fudge

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Review of "Introduction to the Plant Life of Southern California: Coast to Foothills", Jennifer L. Funk

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Influence of Nutrient Availability, Stand Age, and Canopy Structure on Isoprene Flux in a Eucalyptus saligna Experimental Forest, Jennifer L. Funk, Christian P. Giardina, Alexander Knohl, and Manuel T. Lerdau

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α-Helical Protein Based Materials and Methods for Making Same, John M. Gosline, Douglas S. Fudge, and Paul Guerrette

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Associative Memory In Three Aplysiids: Correlation With Heterosynaptic Modulation, Brian A. Hoover, Hoang Nguyen, Laura Thompson, and William G. Wright

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Linking Ligand-Induced Alterations in Androgen Receptor Structure to Differential Gene Expression: A First Step in the Rational Design of Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators, Dmitri Kazmin, Tatiana Prytkova, C. Edgar Cook, Russell Wolfinger, Tzu-Ming Chu, David Beratan, J. D. Norris, Ching-yi Chang, and Donald P. McDonnell

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Nutrient Control of Microbial Carbon Cycling Along an Ombrotrophicminerotrophic Peatland Gradient, Jason K. Keller, Angela K. Bauers, Scott D. Bridgham, Laurie E. Kellogg, and Colleen M. Iversen

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Hagfish Slime Ecomechanics: Testing the Gill Clogging Hypothesis, Jeannette Lim, Douglas S. Fudge, Nimrod Levy, and John M. Gosline

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Correction to "Oceanic Uptake and the Global Atmospheric Acetone Budget", Christa Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, Scott Miller, M. J. Prather, and Eric S. Saltzman

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Aspartyl-tRNA Synthetase is the Target of Peptidenucleotide Antibiotic Microcin C, Anastasia Metlitskaya, Teymur Kazakov, Aigar Kommer, Olga Pavlova, Mette Praetorius-Ibba, Michael Ibba, Igor Krasheninnkov, Vyacheslav Kolb, Inessa Khmel, and Konstantin Severinov

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Functional Association Between Three Archaeal Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases, Mette Praetorius-Ibba, Corinne D. Hausmann, Molly Paras, Theresa E. Rogers, and Michael Ibba

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Molecular Biology: Sticky End in Protein Synthesis, Hervé Roy and Michael Ibba

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C to U Editing Stimulates A to I Editing in the Anticodon Loop of a Cytoplasmic Threonyl tRNA in Trypanosoma brucei, Mary Anne T. Rubio, Frank L. Ragone, Kirk W. Gaston, Michael Ibba, and Juan D. Alfonzo

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Discrimination of Cognate and Non-Cognate Substrates at the Active Site of Class I Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase, Shiming Wang, Mette Praetorius-Ibba, Sandro F. Ataide, Hervé Roy, and Michael Ibba

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Authorship in Ecology: Attribution, Accountability, and Responsibility, Jake F. Weltzin, R. Travis Belote, Leigh T. Williams, Jason K. Keller, and E. Cayenne Engel

Submissions from 2005

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Transfer RNA Recognition by Class I Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase from the Lyme Disease Pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi, Alexandre Ambrogelly, Magali Frugier, Michael Ibba, Dieter Söll, and Richard Giegé

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Stationary Phase Expression and Aminoacylation of a tRNA-like Small RNA, Sandro F. Ataide, Brian C. Jester, Kevin M. Devine, and Michael Ibba

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The M2 Muscarinic Receptor Mediates Contraction through Indirect Mechanisms in Mouse Urinary Bladder, Frederick J. Ehlert, Michael T. Griffin, Diane M. Abe, Tran H. Vo, Makoto M. Taketo, Toshiya Manabe, and Minoru Matsui

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Comparison of the Antimuscarinic Action of p-Fluorohexahydrosiladifenidol in Ileal and Tracheal Smooth Muscle, Frederick J. Ehlert, Jake Ching-Hsuan Hsu, Kevin Leung, Alex G. Lee, Darakhshanda Shehnaz, and Michael T. Griffin

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Chilly Waters, Hot Sharks, Douglas S. Fudge

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Composition, Morphology and Mechanics of Hagfish Slime, Douglas S. Fudge

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Sticky Feats, Douglas S. Fudge

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Stretchy to the Core, Douglas S. Fudge

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Review of "Photosynthesis - Regulation Under Varying Light Regimes", Jennifer L. Funk

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Variation in Isoprene Emission from Quercus rubra: Sources, Causes, and Consequences for Estimating Fluxes, Jennifer L. Funk, Clive G. Jones, Dennis W. Gray, Heather L. Throop, Laura A. Hyatt, and Manuel T. Lerdau

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Faststart Muscle Dynamics in the Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss: Phase Relationship of White Muscle Shortening and Body Curvature, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Robert E. Shadwick, Douglas S. Fudge, and John M. Gosline

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Oceanic Uptake and the Global Atmospheric Acetone Budget, Christa Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, Scott Miller, M. J. Prather, and Eric S. Saltzman

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Presynaptic Angiotensin II AT1 Receptors Enhance Inhibitory and Excitatory Synaptic Neurotransmission to Motoneurons and Other Ventral Horn Neurons in Neonatal Rat Spinal Cord, Murat Oz, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Michael J. O'Donovan, and Leo P. Renaud

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Quality Control During Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthesis, M. Praetorius-Ibba, S. Ataide, C. Hausmann, J. Levengood, J. Ling, S. Wang, H. Roy, and Michael Ibba

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Association Between Archaeal Prolyl- and Leucyl-tRNA Synthetases Enhances tRNAPro Aminoacylation, Mette Praetorius-Ibba, Theresa E. Rogers, Rachel Samson, Zvi Kelman, and Michael Ibba

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Loss of Editing Activity During the Evolution of Mitochondrial Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetase, Hervé Roy, Jiqiang Ling, Juan D. Alfonzo, and Michael Ibba

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Inhibition Modifies the Effects of Slow Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels on Epileptiform Activity in a Neuronal Network Model, Keun-Hang Susan Yang, Piotr J. Franaszczuk, and Gregory K. Bergey

Submissions from 2004

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Atmospheric Variability Of Methyl Chloride During the Last 300 Years From an Antarctic Ice Core and Firn Air, M. Aydin, Eric S. Saltzman, Warren J. De Bruyn, S. A. Montzka, J. H. Butler, and M. Battle

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Photoreactive Bicyclic Amino Acids as Substrates for Mutant Escherichia coli Phenylalanyl-tRNA Synthetases, Thomas Bentin, Ramin Hamzavi, Jahan Salomonsson, Hervé Roy, Michael Ibba, and Peter E. Nielsen

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Remote Sensing of Dust Storms Over the Indo-Gangetic Basin, Hesham el-Askary, Ritesh Gautam, and Menas Kafatos

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Rain Gauge Derived Precipitation Variability over Virginia and its Relation with the EL NINO Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Hesham el-Askary, S. Sarkar, L. Chiu, Tarek El-Ghawazi, and Menas Kafatos

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Mussels Pull Off Not Getting Pulled Off, Douglas S. Fudge

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Molecular Design of the α-keratin Composite: Insights from a Matrix-free Model, Hagfish Slime Threads, Douglas S. Fudge and John M. Gosline

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Muscarinic Agonist-Mediated Heterologous Desensitization in Isolated Ileum Requires Activation of Both Muscarinic M2 and M3 Receptors, Michael T. Griffin, Minoru Matsui, Darakhshanda Shehnaz, Khurram Z. Ansari, Makoto M. Taketo, Toshiya Manabe, and Frederick J. Ehlert

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Turning tRNA Upside Down: When Aminoacylation is Not a Prerequisite to Protein Synthesis, Michael Ibba and Christopher Francklyn