Submissions from 2009
Active water in protein-protein communication within the membrane: the case of SRII-HtrII signal relay., Vladislav B Bergo, Elena N Spudich, John L Spudich, and Kenneth J Rothschild
Adenine nucleotide-dependent regulation of assembly of bacterial tubulin-like FtsZ by a hypermorph of bacterial actin-like FtsA., Tushar K Beuria, Srinivas Mullapudi, Eugenia Mileykovskaya, Mahalakshmi Sadasivam, William Dowhan, and William Margolin
Molecular basis for class V beta-tubulin effects on microtubule assembly and paclitaxel resistance., Rajat Bhattacharya and Fernando Cabral
PAT proteins, an ancient family of lipid droplet proteins that regulate cellular lipid stores., Perry E Bickel, John T Tansey, and Michael A Welte
Lipid-protein interactions drive membrane protein topogenesis in accordance with the positive inside rule., Mikhail Bogdanov, Jun Xie, and William Dowhan
Localized diacylglycerol-dependent stimulation of Ras and Rap1 during phagocytosis., Roberto J Botelho, Rene E Harrison, James C Stone, John F Hancock, Mark R Philips, Jenny Jongstra-Bilen, David Mason, Jonathan Plumb, Michael R Gold, and Sergio Grinstein
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study of naltrexone in outpatients with bipolar disorder and alcohol dependence., E Sherwood Brown, Thomas J Carmody, Joy M Schmitz, Raul Caetano, Bryon Adinoff, Alan C Swann, and A John Rush
Regulation of hepatic cytochrome P450 expression in mice with intestinal or systemic infections of citrobacter rodentium., Madhusudana R Chaluvadi, Ryan D Kinloch, Beatrice A Nyagode, Terrilyn A Richardson, Malik J Raynor, Melanie Sherman, Leposava Antonovic, Henry W Strobel, Dirck L Dillehay, and Edward T Morgan
HuD stimulates translation via eIF4A., Chyi-Ying A Chen and Ann-Bin Shyu
Ago-TNRC6 triggers microRNA-mediated decay by promoting two deadenylation steps., Chyi-Ying A Chen, Dinghai Zheng, Zhenfang Xia, and Ann-Bin Shyu
Computational selection of inhibitors of Abeta aggregation and neuronal toxicity., Deliang Chen, Zane S Martin, Claudio Soto, and Catherine H Schein
Genomic screening identifies novel linkages and provides further evidence for a role of MYH9 in nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate., Brett T Chiquet, Syed S Hashmi, Robin Henry, Amber Burt, John B Mulliken, Samuel Stal, Molly Bray, Susan H Blanton, and Jacqueline T Hecht
A trilocus sequence typing scheme for hospital epidemiology and subspecies differentiation of an important nosocomial pathogen, Enterococcus faecalis., Shahreen A Chowdhury, Cesar A Arias, Sreedhar R Nallapareddy, Jinnethe Reyes, Rob J L Willems, and Barbara E Murray
Post-translational regulation of an Aplysia glutamate transporter during long-term facilitation., Maria Sol Collado, Omar Khabour, Diasinou Fioravante, John H. Byrne, and Arnold Eskin
Detailed analysis of sequence changes occurring during vlsE antigenic variation in the mouse model of Borrelia burgdorferi infection., Loïc Coutte, Douglas J Botkin, Lihui Gao, and Steven J Norris
Detailed analysis of sequence changes occurring during vlsE antigenic variation in the mouse model of Borrelia burgdorferi infection., Loïc Coutte, Douglas J. Botkin, Lihui Gao, and Steven J. Norris
Polysensory interneuronal projections to foot contractile pedal neurons in Hermissenda., Terry Crow and Lian-Ming Tian
Validity assessment of the Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Health Belief scale., Mfon Cyrus-David, Jason King, Therese Bevers, and Emily Robinson
Sulforaphane improves cognitive function administered following traumatic brain injury., Pramod K Dash, Jing Zhao, Sara A Orsi, Min Zhang, and Anthony N Moore
Improved cerebellar tissue classification on magnetic resonance images of brain., Sushmita Datta, Guozhi Tao, Renjie He, Jerry S Wolinsky, and Ponnada A Narayana
Strong-meter and weak-meter rhythm identification in spina bifida meningomyelocele and volumetric parcellation of rhythm-relevant cerebellar regions., Maureen Dennis, Talar Hopyan, Jenifer Juranek, Paul T Cirino, Khader M Hasan, and Jack Fletcher
Molecular genetic approaches to defining lipid function., William Dowhan
Physical and functional interaction between the dopamine transporter and the synaptic vesicle protein synaptogyrin-3., Loreto A Egaña, Rolando A Cuevas, Tracy B Baust, Leonardo A Parra, Rehana K Leak, Sarah Hochendoner, Karina Peña, Marisol Quiroz, Weimin C Hong, Mario M Dorostkar, Roger Janz, Harald H Sitte, and Gonzalo E Torres
Genetic and hormonal factors modulate spreading depression and transient hemiparesis in mouse models of familial hemiplegic migraine type 1., Katharina Eikermann-Haerter, Ergin Dileköz, Chiho Kudo, Sean I Savitz, Christian Waeber, Michael J Baum, Michel D Ferrari, Arn M J M van den Maagdenberg, Michael A Moskowitz, and Cenk Ayata
Altered transmission of HOX and apoptotic SNPs identify a potential common pathway for clubfoot., Audrey R Ester, Katelyn S Weymouth, Amber Burt, Carol A Wise, Allison Scott, Christina A Gurnett, Matthew B Dobbs, Susan H Blanton, and Jacqueline T Hecht
Mammalian miRNA RISC recruits CAF1 and PABP to affect PABP-dependent deadenylation., Marc R Fabian, Géraldine Mathonnet, Thomas Sundermeier, Hansruedi Mathys, Jakob T Zipprich, Yuri V Svitkin, Fabiola Rivas, Martin Jinek, James Wohlschlegel, Jennifer A Doudna, Chyi-Ying A Chen, Ann-Bin Shyu, John R Yates, Gregory J Hannon, Witold Filipowicz, Thomas F Duchaine, and Nahum Sonenberg
Morphoproteomic evidence of constitutively activated and overexpressed mTOR pathway in cervical squamous carcinoma and high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions., Wei Feng, Xiuzhen Duan, Jinsong Liu, Jianguo Xiao, and Robert E Brown
High-sensitivity rod photoreceptor input to the blue-yellow color opponent pathway in macaque retina., Greg D Field, Martin Greschner, Jeffrey L Gauthier, Carolina Rangel, Jonathon Shlens, Alexander Sher, David W Marshak, Alan M Litke, and E J Chichilnisky
Optical imaging of postsynaptic odor representation in the glomerular layer of the mouse olfactory bulb., Max L Fletcher, Arjun V Masurkar, Junling Xing, Fumiaki Imamura, Wenhui Xiong, Shin Nagayama, Hiroki Mutoh, Charles A Greer, Thomas Knöpfel, and Wei R Chen
Analysis of clonality and antibiotic resistance among early clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium in the United States., Jessica R Galloway-Peña, Sreedhar R Nallapareddy, Cesar A Arias, George M Eliopoulos, and Barbara E Murray
Learning reward timing in cortex through reward dependent expression of synaptic plasticity., Jeffrey P Gavornik, Marshall G Hussain Shuler, Yonatan Loewenstein, Mark F Bear, and Harel Z Shouval
Intravenous mesenchymal stem cell therapy for traumatic brain injury., Matthew T Harting, Fernando Jimenez, Hasan Xue, Uwe M Fischer, James Baumgartner, Pramod K Dash, and Charles S Cox
Subacute neural stem cell therapy for traumatic brain injury., Matthew T Harting, Leeann E Sloan, Fernando Jimenez, James Baumgartner, and Charles S Cox
Reduced vascular endothelial growth factor expression in contusive spinal cord injury., Juan J Herrera, Olivera Nesic, and Ponnada A Narayana
TB research at UT-Houston--a review of cord factor: new approaches to drugs, vaccines and the pathogenesis of tuberculosis., Robert L Hunter, Lisa Armitige, Chinnaswamy Jagannath, and Jeffrey K Actor
Explanations for unsuccessful weight loss among bariatric surgery candidates., Kevin O Hwang, Joseph H Childs, G Ken Goodrick, Wael A Aboughali, Eric J Thomas, Craig W Johnson, Sherman C Yu, and Elmer V Bernstam
Screening for obstructive sleep apnea on the internet: randomized trial., Kevin O Hwang, Abdurrahman M Hamadah, Craig W Johnson, Eric J Thomas, G Ken Goodrick, and Elmer V Bernstam
The detrimental role of angiotensin receptor agonistic autoantibodies in intrauterine growth restriction seen in preeclampsia., Roxanna A Irani, Yujin Zhang, Sean C Blackwell, Cissy Chenyi Zhou, Susan M Ramin, Rodney E Kellems, and Yang Xia
5-HT and GABA modulate intrinsic excitability of type I interneurons in Hermissenda., Nan Ge Jin, Lian-Ming Tian, and Terry Crow
Irresistible curves., Jennifer R Juarez and William Margolin
Hybrid stochastic simulations of intracellular reaction-diffusion systems., Georgios Kalantzis
Evaluating statistical methods used to estimate the number of postsynaptic receptors., Georgios Kalantzis, Yoshira Kubota, and Harel Z Shouval
Structural plasticity can produce metaplasticity., Georgios Kalantzis and Harel Z Shouval
The use of second-generation antipsychotics and the changes in physical growth in children and adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV., Suad Kapetanovic, Lisa Aaron, Grace Montepiedra, Patricia A Sirois, James M Oleske, Kathleen Malee, Deborah A Pearson, Sharon L Nichols, Patricia A Garvie, John Farley, Molly L Nozyce, Mark Mintz, and Paige L Williams
Is paromomycin an effective and safe treatment against cutaneous leishmaniasis? A meta-analysis of 14 randomized controlled trials., Dae Hyun Kim, Hye Jin Chung, Joachim Bleys, and Reza F Ghohestani
Mechanism for sortase localization and the role of sortase localization in efficient pilus assembly in Enterococcus faecalis., Kimberly A Kline, Andrew L Kau, Swaine L Chen, Adeline Lim, Jerome S Pinkner, Jason Rosch, Sreedhar R Nallapareddy, Barbara E Murray, Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Wandy Beatty, Michael G Caparon, and Scott J Hultgren
Dopamine-stimulated dephosphorylation of connexin 36 mediates AII amacrine cell uncoupling., W Wade Kothmann, Stephen C Massey, and John O'Brien
Long-lasting hyperexcitability induced by depolarization in the absence of detectable Ca2+ signals., Kumud K Kunjilwar, Harvey M Fishman, Dario J Englot, Roger G O'Neil, and Edgar T Walters
Changes in the PQRST intervals and heart rate variability associated with rewarming in two newborns undergoing hypothermia therapy., Robert E Lasky, Nehal A Parikh, Amber L Williams, Nikhil S Padhye, and Seetha Shankaran
Organization of hue selectivity in macaque V2 thin stripes., Heejin Lim, Yi Wang, Youping Xiao, Ming Hu, and Daniel J Felleman
Intact flagellar motor of Borrelia burgdorferi revealed by cryo-electron tomography: evidence for stator ring curvature and rotor/C-ring assembly flexion., Jun Liu, Tao Lin, Douglas J Botkin, Erin McCrum, Hanspeter Winkler, and Steven J Norris
Ultraviolet radiation intensity predicts the relative distribution of dermatomyositis and anti-Mi-2 autoantibodies in women., Lori A Love, Clarice R Weinberg, D Robert McConnaughey, Chester V Oddis, Thomas A Medsger, John D Reveille, Frank C Arnett, Ira N Targoff, and Frederick W Miller
Following the "herb"., Gerald W Mank
BTG/TOB factors impact deadenylases., Fabienne Mauxion, Chyi-Ying A Chen, Bertrand Séraphin, and Ann-Bin Shyu
Synaptotagmin-2 controls regulated exocytosis but not other secretory responses of mast cells., Ernestina Melicoff, Leticia Sansores-Garcia, Alejandra Gomez, Daniel C Moreira, Proleta Datta, Pratima Thakur, Youlia Petrova, Tanya Siddiqi, Jayasimha N Murthy, Burton F Dickey, Ruth Heidelberger, and Roberto Adachi
Cardiolipin membrane domains in prokaryotes and eukaryotes., Eugenia Mileykovskaya and William Dowhan
Cross currents in protein misfolding disorders: interactions and therapy., Rodrigo Morales, Kristi M Green, and Claudio Soto
ANKRD1, the gene encoding cardiac ankyrin repeat protein, is a novel dilated cardiomyopathy gene., Mousumi Moulik, Matteo Vatta, Stephanie H Witt, Anita M Arola, Ross T Murphy, William J McKenna, Aladin M Boriek, Kazuhiro Oka, Siegfried Labeit, Neil E Bowles, Takuro Arimura, Akinori Kimura, and Jeffrey A Towbin
Inoculum effect with cefazolin among clinical isolates of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus: frequency and possible cause of cefazolin treatment failure., Esteban C Nannini, Martin E Stryjewski, Kavindra V Singh, Agathe Bourgogne, Tom H Rude, G Ralph Corey, Vance G Fowler, and Barbara E Murray
Diffusion tensor imaging of cocaine-treated rodents., Ponnada A Narayana, Pallavi Ahobila-Vajjula, Jaivijay Ramu, Juan Herrera, Joel L Steinberg, and F Gerard Moeller
A loss-of-function variant of PTPN22 is associated with reduced risk of systemic lupus erythematosus., Valeria Orrú, Sophia J Tsai, Blanca Rueda, Edoardo Fiorillo, Stephanie M Stanford, Jhimli Dasgupta, Jaana Hartiala, Lei Zhao, Norberto Ortego-Centeno, Sandra D'Alfonso, Frank C Arnett, Hui Wu, Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay, Betty P Tsao, Bernardo Pons-Estel, Marta E Alarcon-Riquelme, Yantao He, Zhong-Yin Zhang, Hooman Allayee, Xiaojiang S Chen, Javier Martin, and Nunzio Bottini
Activity of anidulafungin in a murine model of Candida krusei infection: evaluation of mortality and disease burden by quantitative tissue cultures and measurement of serum (1,3)-beta-D-glucan levels., Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Victor L Paetznick, Jose Rodriguez, Enuo Chen, and Daniel J Sheehan
Heart rate variability in response to pain stimulus in VLBW infants followed longitudinally during NICU stay., Nikhil S Padhye, Amber L Williams, Asif Z Khattak, and Robert E Lasky
Migraine and vasodepressor syncope in a large family., Robert D Paisley, Harvinder S Arora, Alireza Nazeri, Ali Massumi, and Mehdi Razavi
Volumetric and anatomical MRI for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: relationship to hypothermia therapy and neurosensory impairments., N A Parikh, R E Lasky, C N Garza, E Bonfante-Mejia, S Shankaran, and J E Tyson
Effect of VEGF treatment on the blood-spinal cord barrier permeability in experimental spinal cord injury: dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging., Chirag B Patel, David M Cohen, Pallavi Ahobila-Vajjula, Laura M Sundberg, Tessy Chacko, and Ponnada A Narayana
Relationship between threshold and suprathreshold perception of position and stereoscopic depth., Saumil S Patel, Harold E Bedell, Dorcas K Tsang, and Michael T Ukwade
Intra-hippocampal administration of the VEGF receptor blocker PTK787/ZK222584 impairs long-term memory., Shibani Pati, Sara A Orsi, Anthony N Moore, and Pramod K Dash
Adenosine signaling contributes to ethanol-induced fatty liver in mice., Zhongsheng Peng, Pier Andrea Borea, Katia Varani, Tuere Wilder, Herman Yee, Luis Chiriboga, Michael R Blackburn, Gianfranco Azzena, Giuseppe Resta, and Bruce N Cronstein
Prion protein glycosylation is not required for strain-specific neurotropism., Justin R Piro, Brent T Harris, Koren Nishina, Claudio Soto, Rodrigo Morales, Judy R Rees, and Surachai Supattapone
Upregulation of defensins in burn sheep small intestine., Brian J Poindexter, Gordon L Klein, Stephen M Milner, and Roger J Bick
Rubisco in complex with Rubisco large subunit methyltransferase., Stefan Raunser, Roberta Magnani, Zhong Huang, Robert L Houtz, Raymond C Trievel, Pawel A Penczek, and Thomas Walz
Dissemination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 sequence type 8 lineage in Latin America., Jinnethe Reyes, Sandra Rincón, Lorena Díaz, Diana Panesso, Germán A Contreras, Jeannete Zurita, Carlos Carrillo, Adele Rizzi, Manuel Guzmán, Javier Adachi, Shahreen Chowdhury, Barbara E Murray, and Cesar A Arias
Does colon cancer ever metastasize to bone first? a temporal analysis of colorectal cancer progression., Eira S Roth, David T Fetzer, Bruce J Barron, Usha A Joseph, Isis W Gayed, and David Q Wan
Cardiolipin biosynthesis and remodeling enzymes are altered during development of heart failure., Harjot K Saini-Chohan, Michael G Holmes, Adam J Chicco, William A Taylor, Russell L Moore, Sylvia A McCune, Diane L Hickson-Bick, Grant M Hatch, and Genevieve C Sparagna
Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in multiple sclerosis., Balasrinivasa R Sajja, Jerry S Wolinsky, and Ponnada A Narayana
Sequencing of TGF-beta pathway genes in familial cases of intracranial aneurysm., Teresa Santiago-Sim, Sumy Mathew-Joseph, Hariyadarshi Pannu, Dianna M Milewicz, Christine E Seidman, J G Seidman, and Dong H Kim
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a patient with situs inversus: a case report of this rare coincidence., Eric L Sceusi and Curtis J Wray
A family of fibrinogen-binding MSCRAMMs from Enterococcus faecalis., Jouko Sillanpää, Sreedhar R Nallapareddy, Janeu Houston, Vannakambadi K Ganesh, Agathe Bourgogne, Kavindra V Singh, Barbara E Murray, and Magnus Höök
Distribution of genes encoding MSCRAMMs and Pili in clinical and natural populations of Enterococcus faecium., Jouko Sillanpää, Vittal P Prakash, Sreedhar R Nallapareddy, and Barbara E Murray
Timely follow-up of abnormal diagnostic imaging test results in an outpatient setting: are electronic medical records achieving their potential?, Hardeep Singh, Eric J Thomas, Shrinidi Mani, Dean Sittig, Harvinder Arora, Donna Espadas, Myrna M Khan, and Laura A Petersen
Impact of medications prescribed for treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder on physical growth in children and adolescents with HIV., Patricia A Sirois, Grace Montepiedra, Suad Kapetanovic, Paige L Williams, Deborah A Pearson, Kathleen Malee, Patricia A Garvie, Betsy L Kammerer, Sharon L Nichols, Molly L Nozyce, Mark Mintz, Wendy G Mitchell, and James M Oleske
Interlinked dual-time feedback loops can enhance robustness to stochasticity and persistence of memory., Paul Smolen, Douglas A Baxter, and John H Byrne
Mutation analysis of the PVRL1 gene in caucasians with nonsyndromic cleft lip/palate., Mehmet A Sözen, Jacqueline T Hecht, and Richard A Spritz
Mutation and association analysis of the PVR and PVRL2 genes in patients with non-syndromic cleft lip and palate., Mehmet A Sözen, Jacqueline T Hecht, and Richard A Spritz
Do binucleate cardiomyocytes have a role in myocardial repair? Insights using isolated rodent myocytes and cell culture., Michael J Stephen, Brian J Poindexter, Johan A Moolman, David Sheikh-Hamad, and Roger J Bick
Opioid dependence treatment: options in pharmacotherapy., Angela L Stotts, Carrie L Dodrill, and Thomas R Kosten
Ultrasound feedback and motivational interviewing targeting smoking cessation in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy., Angela L Stotts, Janet Y Groff, Mary M Velasquez, Ruby Benjamin-Garner, Charles Green, Joseph P Carbonari, and Carlo C DiClemente
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy during Methadone Dose Reduction: Rationale, Treatment Description, and a Case Report., Angela L Stotts, Akihiko Masuda, and Kelly Wilson
Ketamine-induced hepatoprotection: the role of heme oxygenase-1., James W Suliburk, Jeremy L Ward, Kenneth S Helmer, Sasha D Adams, Brian S Zuckerbraun, and David W Mercer
Continuum of depressive and manic mixed states in patients with bipolar disorder: quantitative measurement and clinical features., Alan C Swann, Joel L Steinberg, Marijn Lijffijt, and Gerard F Moeller
Intracranial EEG reveals a time- and frequency-specific role for the right inferior frontal gyrus and primary motor cortex in stopping initiated responses., Nicole Swann, Nitin Tandon, Ryan Canolty, Timothy M Ellmore, Linda K McEvoy, Stephen Dreyer, Michael DiSano, and Adam R Aron
Deep gray matter atrophy in multiple sclerosis: a tensor based morphometry., Guozhi Tao, Sushmita Datta, Renjie He, Flavia Nelson, Jerry S Wolinsky, and Ponnada A Narayana
Symmetric inverse consistent nonlinear registration driven by mutual information., Guozhi Tao, Renjie He, Sushmita Datta, and Ponnada A Narayana
Further characterization of the epa gene cluster and Epa polysaccharides of Enterococcus faecalis., Fang Teng, Kavindra V Singh, Agathe Bourgogne, Jing Zeng, and Barbara E Murray
Body weight, insulin resistance, and serum adipokine levels 2 years after 2 types of bariatric surgery., Michael A Trakhtenbroit, Joshua G Leichman, Mohamed F Algahim, Charles C Miller, Frank G Moody, Thomas R Lux, and Heinrich Taegtmeyer
Phase I clinical trials in 56 patients with thyroid cancer: the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center experience., Apostolia Maria Tsimberidou, Christos Vaklavas, Sijin Wen, David Hong, Jennifer Wheler, Chaan Ng, Aung Naing, Susan Tse, Naifa Busaidy, Maurie Markman, Steven I Sherman, and Razelle Kurzrock
Cost-effectiveness of universal prophylaxis in pregnancy with prior group B streptococci colonization., Mark A Turrentine, Mildred M Ramirez, and Joan M Mastrobattista
Advances in progenitor cell therapy using scaffolding constructs for central nervous system injury., Peter A Walker, Kevin R Aroom, Fernando Jimenez, Shinil K Shah, Matthew T Harting, Brijesh S Gill, and Charles S Cox
Modern approaches to pediatric brain injury therapy., Peter A Walker, Matthew T Harting, James E Baumgartner, Stephen Fletcher, Nathan Strobel, and Charles S Cox