Browsing by Author "Canaan, Patricia"
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Arhodomonas sp. strain Seminole and its genetic potential to degrade aromatic compounds under high-salinity conditions
Dalvi, Sonal; Nicholson, Carla; Najar, Fares; Roe, Bruce A.; Canaan, Patricia; Hartson, Steven D.; Fathepure, Babu Z. (American Society for Microbiology, 2014-11)Arhodomonas sp. strain Seminole was isolated from a crude oil-impacted brine soil and shown to degrade benzene, toluene, phenol, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA), protocatechuic acid (PCA), and phenylacetic acid (PAA) as the ... -
Changes in gene expression under water stress in the flag leaf and seed head during the grain-filling stage of two spring wheat cultivars
Alotaibi, Fahad Saad (2018-05)Drought poses severe limitations on crop production. Therefore, drought tolerance mechanisms need to be better understood to select, modify and recommend certain cultivars of wheat. The grain filling stage of wheat development ... -
Charactization of Intergrase Interactor 1 Binding Chromatin
Steele, Dustin (2016-07-01)The remodeling of chromatin is a poorly understood and vital cellular process that plays a key role in an array of cellular functions including transcription, replication, and DNA damage repair. Studies have shown the ... -
Classification of Elizabethkingia anophelis resistance mechanisms and characterization of novel B-lactamase genes
Purcell, Lindsey (2018-05-11)Due to the cause of recent outbreaks within regions of the United States and other parts of the world, the study of Elizabethkingia anophelis has been of great interest due to high mortality and presence of multiple ... -
Deciphering the role of the INI-1 protein within the SWI/SNF remodeling complex
Henry, Kayla (5/4/2023)INI-1 is a core subunit of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, which stands for SWItch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable, and is a known tumor suppressor gene. INI-1 is a 47kDa long protein with 385 amino acids present in its ... -
Development and characterization of molecular tools for microbial forensics
Brown, TeeCie Paige (2011-07)Scope and Method of Study: -
Differential expression of Elizabethkingia anophelis to cefotaxime and imipenem
Pearson, James (2017-05-12)Elizabethkingia anophelis is a beta-lactam antibiotic resistant bacterium that uses a variety of mechanisms to express this resistance. It is currently unknown how E. anophelis responds when exposed to different beta-lactam ... -
Drought-induced epigenetic modulation and transcriptional variation of winter wheat
Lim, Alexander (2020-12)The worsening climate uncertainty has exacerbated environmental stress, and the accompanying extreme weather disasters have damaged crop production across the globe. The yield production of wheat, one of the world's most ... -
Effects of green algal concentrations on the life history characteristics of Daphnia magna
Gore, Jessica (2020-05-08)As eutrophication levels continue to rise, it is important to understand how increases in algal biomass will affect other food web components. In this study, we used Scenedesmus acutus, a species of green algae, to determine ... -
Fluoroquinolone resistance in Elizabethkingia bruuniana
Irwin, Russell (2020-04-29)The Gram-negative bacterial genus Elizabethkingia displays natural multiple antimicrobial resistance and is an emerging pathogen. One of the therapeutic agents still effective in the treatment of the Elizabethkingia are ... -
Identification and characterization of natural compound inhibitors of the Hsp90 chaperone complex
Davenport, Jason Lee (2013-07)The 90 kDa Heat Shock Protein (Hsp90) has emerged as a major therapeutic target for a number of diseases, the most notable of which is cancer. Accordingly, many groups are attempting to develop small molecules that modulate ... -
Identification of Candidate Genes for Biosurfactant Production in Lactobacillus Species
Velasco Vazquez, Pryscila (2017-08-01)Most bacteria are capable of forming biofilms to protect themselves from antimicrobials and other sanitation procedures. Undesired biofilm formation is a serious problem in the food and healthcare industries. Probiotic ... -
Illuminating the black box: Aspects of Elizabethkingia epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance
Johnson, William L. (2020-05)Elizabethkingia are emerging Gram negative opportunistic pathogens and the etiologic agents of community- and hospital-associated outbreaks in immunocompromised patients. These organisms are notable for the multiply-antibiotic ... -
Lack of access to care hurts rural populations' health: Federally qualified health centers offer a solution
Dockrey, Danielle (2017-05-10)The objective of this thesis is to investigate the effectiveness of implementing more Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) into rural areas to improve existing health disparities. Three benefits of FQHCs were analyzed: ... -
Localization and structure of plastidial-encoded polymerase sub-units
Guerrero Criado, Andres Eduardo (2016-04-26)Chloroplast biogenesis is a quintessential process In plants for the acquisition of photo-autotrophy. The path towards chloroplast biogenesis begins with the inhibition of skotomorphogenesis (That is the growth program in ... -
Mechanism of lysosomal cathepsin B degradation of Cryptococcus neoformans
Cannon, Brinley (2020-04-29)Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that is spread through inhalation and predominantly causes disease in immunocompromised patients. The infection begins in the lungs as pneumonia and can disseminate ... -
Metabolic evolution in Galdieria sulphuraria
Ternes, Chad M. (2015-05)The thermoacidophilic, unicellular, red alga Galdieria sulphuraria possesses characteristics, including salt and heavy metal tolerance, unsurpassed by any other alga. Like most plastid bearing eukaryotes, G. sulphuraria ... -
N-Glycosyltransferase (ApNGT) and the in-vitro glycosylation of y-Sarcoglycan
Blair, Eston W. (2018-05-01)N-Glycosyltransferase of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (ApNGT) is an enzyme which performs N-linked glycosylation of proteins. Furthermore, ApNGT is a cytoplasmic glycosyltransferase with the ability to target heterologous ... -
Phosphorylation effects on cancer protein's DNA binding
Luttrell, Carlee (2017-12-15)This study is focused on understanding the phosphorylation sites within INI-1 DNA binding domains to understand the INI-1 protein's connections to atypical teraroid/rhadboid tumor (AT/RT), an aggressive pediatric neural ... -
Phylogenetic variety and importance in the b-lactamases of Elizabethkingia; anophilis, miracola and meningoseptica in pathogenicity
Guerrero Criado, Andres Eduardo (2016-04-29)With recent outbreaks of Elizabethkingia affecting the United States, it is important to further understand the method of action that this bacterium uses to infect patients. Given that Elizabethkingia is not regarded as a ...