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- Title
- Chemical Tools for Biology
- Author
- Fessler, Adam
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry
- Description
- Reagents for biotinylation that are innately water-soluble and can be tracked by both UV-vis spectroscopy and fluorescence (330nm/420nm) have been developed. These reagents are based on the isatoic anhydride platform, which gives rise to their val...
- Title
- Cholera Toxin Subunit B-Mediated Intracellular Trafficking of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Toward the Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Author
- Walker, William
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Nanoscience, Biomedical engineering
- Description
- In recent decades, pharmaceutical research has led to the development of numerous treatments for human disease. Nanoscale delivery systems have the potential to maximize therapeutic outcomes by enabling target specific delivery of these therapeuti...
- Title
- Development of nanoparticle-based approaches for the treatment and imaging of pancreatic cancer
- Author
- Tarannum, Mubin
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Chemistry
- Description
- Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a type of exocrine pancreatic cancer which accounts for over 90% of cases. PDAC is the fourth-leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States with a 5-year survival rate of 9% with little t...
- Title
- Dissecting The Salivary Gland: Epithelial-Centered Dysfunction in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome
- Author
- Noll, Braxton
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology
- Description
- Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disease of exocrine tissues causing dry mouth and eyes, mainly affecting women. A culmination of etiologic events leads to the loss of epithelial homeostasis resulting in the MMP9-mediated destruct...
- Title
- ELUCIDATING FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS IN PROTEINS USING THE DISTANCE CONSTRAINT MODEL
- Author
- Singer, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Physics
- Description
- Protein thermodynamics has been shown to be insightful and illuminating to the functional mechanisms behind biological function. By characterizing proteins and protein families according to their enthalpy and entropy we can make inferences to the ...
- Title
- Exceptional New Reagents for Bioconjugation
- Author
- Garmon, Corey
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry, Biochemistry
- Description
- At about the turn of this century the term "click" chemistry came into the common vernacular amongst chemists. "Click" is used to describe reactions that are "spring-loaded" and proceed well in a predictable manner, with no offensive byproduct and...
- Title
- FACTORS SHED BY BREAST TUMOR CELLS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA CONVERTING ENZYME ACTIVITIES, AND THE GENERATION OF PRO-TUMOR MACROPHAGES
- Author
- Rego, Stephen
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology
- Description
- The role of the tumor microenvironment, especially of tumor associated macrophages (TAMs), in the progression and metastatic spread of breast cancer is well established. TAMs are activated in the breast tumor microenvironment to express primarily ...
- Title
- Green Synthesis of Cellulose Graft Copolymers for Anion Exchange Water Purification
- Author
- Schmal, Stephen
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry
- Description
- This thesis describes the synthesis and characterization of novel cellulose graft copolymers that are used for the purification of drinking water. These nanomaterials function as bottle-brush anion-exchange resins with repeating quaternary ammoniu...
- Title
- INVESTIGATING THE ECOLOGICAL, PATHOGENIC, AND DORMANT LIFESTYLES OF THE ESTUARINE BACTERIUM, VIBRIO VULNIFICUS
- Author
- Williams, Tiffany
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Microbiology, Bioinformatics
- Description
- Vibrio vulnificus is ubiquitous in estuarine and coastal waters worldwide and associates naturally with a variety of aquatic organisms. Notably, it is a highly invasive human pathogen capable of causing septicemia and multi-organ failure in person...
- Title
- Influence of Functional Groups on the Photodynamic Therapy and Internalization of Porphyrin Modified Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) Molecules in Mammalian Cells
- Author
- Johnston, Alexis
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic, Chemistry, Organic
- Description
- Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) molecules are highly ordered organic- inorganic hybrid materials with a cage like core of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms surrounded by eight pedant organic residues. These compounds are well-define...
- Title
- MACROPHAGES EXPRESSING NEUROPILIN-1 AND BREAST TUMOR PROGRESSION
- Author
- Helms, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Biology
- Description
- Human breast carcinoma is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women in the United States with patient mortality primarily resulting from metastasis of breast cancer cells to distant organs. Immune cells, including macrophages, are involved in ca...
- Title
- Mass Spectrometric Protein Footprinting of Conformational Changes Induced by Chromatographic Surfaces
- Author
- Focke, Kimberly
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Analytical chemistry, Biochemistry
- Description
- Reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) of intact proteins induces conformational changes due to the denaturing effects of both the hydrophobic stationary phase and the high-organic mobile phase, which can lead to poor recovery and badly disto...
- Title
- NUCLEIC ACID-DRIVEN QUANTUM DOT-BASED LATTICE FORMATIONS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
- Author
- Roark, Brandon
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Biochemistry
- Description
- We present a versatile biosensing strategy that uses nucleic acids programmed to undergo an isothermal toehold mediated strand displacement in the presence of analyte. This rearrangement results in a double biotinylated duplex formation that induc...
- Title
- REGULATION OF ACTOMYOSIN ATPASE
- Author
- Ge, Jinghua
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Physics, Biophysics
- Description
- Myosin is a molecular motor that converts chemical energy to mechanical energy, thus generating force and movement in muscles and cells. Myosin interacts with two ligands, ATP (fuel) and actin filaments (motor’s tracks). Actomyosin interaction is ...
- Title
- Role of Intramolecular Electrostatic Interactions on the Kinetics of Human Cardiac Myosin β-Isoform
- Author
- Gargey, Akhil
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Molecular biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics
- Description
- Human cardiac myosin has two isoforms, α and β, sharing significant sequence similarity, but different in kinetics. Small differences in the sequence are responsible for distinct local inter-residue interactions within α and β isoforms, leading to...
- Title
- Synthesis of Asymmetric Thiazolo[5,4-d] Thiazole Derivatives for Molecular Sensing Applications
- Author
- Meadows, Jared
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry, Biochemistry, Materials science
- Description
- This thesis outlines the synthesis and characterization of new asymmetrically substituted thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole (TTz) compounds. This class of compounds contains a central bicyclic heteroaromatic system that is electron-deficient, and when subst...
- Title
- Synthesis, Characterization and Functionalization of Anti-Bisarene Scaffolds
- Author
- Franklin, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry
- Description
- Since the advent of rational organic synthesis, practitioners in the field have been refining their craft to target compounds of immense complexity. Synthetic methodologies discovered through these pursuits have provided a fertile ground to expand...
- Title
- Synthesis, photophysical characterization, and application of asymmetric thiazolothiazoles as molecular sensors
- Author
- Sayresmith, Nickolas
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Chemistry
- Description
- Small molecule fluorophores are critical for fluorescence spectroscopy, and enable the measurement of a wide array of biological processes and dynamics. For many biological sensing applications, the overall efficacy of the fluorophore is closely c...
- Title
- THE ROLE OF OXYGEN ON THE IN VITRO AND IN SITU ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE VIBRIO SPECIES
- Author
- Phippen, Britney
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Microbiology
- Description
- Hypoxia is an emerging concern in coastal ecosystems worldwide, and the number of areas experiencing hypoxia has increased exponentially in recent years. It is most prevalent in summer months when elevated temperatures lead to increased oxygen con...
- Title
- THE SYNTHESIS OF PHOTOSENSITIZERS FOR THE PHOTODYNAMIC INACTIVATION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI
- Author
- Hurst, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Chemistry
- Description
- The development of antibiotic resistance is a natural phenomenon that occurs when bacteria cells exchange resistant traits amongst each other or when mutations occur during replication. This causes bacteria to be able to withstand attack by antibi...