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Open Access3D nanoprinting via spatially controlled assembly and polymerization
Macroscale additive manufacturing has seen significant advances recently, but these advances are not yet realized for the bottom-up formation of nanoscale polymeric features. We describe a platform technology ...
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Open AccessErratum: Biotemplating pores with size and shape diversity for Li-oxygen Battery Cathodes
Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 45919; published online: 04 April 2017; updated: 16 May 2017. The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Cagla Ozgit-Akgun, whic...
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Open AccessBiotemplating pores with size and shape diversity for Li-oxygen Battery Cathodes
Synthetic porogens provide an easy way to create porous structures, but their usage is limited due to synthetic difficulties, process complexities and prohibitive costs. Here we investigate the use of bacteria...
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Open AccessThe UT family of MHC class I loci unique to non-eutherian mammals has limited polymorphism and tissue specific patterns of expression in the opossum
The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I family of genes encode for molecules that have well-conserved structures, but have evolved to perform diverse functions. The availability of the gray, short-t...
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Open AccessMarsupials and monotremes possess a novel family of MHC class I genes that is lost from the eutherian lineage
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes are found in the genomes of all jawed vertebrates. The evolution of this gene family is closely tied to the evolution of the vertebrate genome. Family membe...
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The opossum MHC genomic region revisited
The gray short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica is one of the few marsupial species for which a high quality whole genome sequence is available and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region has been a...
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The Evolution and Structure of Atypical T Cell Receptors
The T cell receptor structure and genetic organization have been thought to have been stable in vertebrate evolution relative to the immunoglobulins. For the most part, this has been true and the content and o...
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Recombination, transcription, and diversity of a partially germline-joined VH in a mammal
Full or partially germline-joined V genes have been described in a number of different vertebrate lineages where they can contribute to the expressed antibody repertoire through different mechanisms. Here we d...
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A VpreB3 homologue in a marsupial, the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica
A VpreB surrogate light (SL) chain was identified for the first time in a marsupial, the opossum Monodelphis domestica. Comparing the opossum VpreB to homologues from eutherian (placental mammals) and avian speci...
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Comparative analysis of the chicken TCRα/δ locus
The access to whole genome sequences has provided the opportunity to study the evolution and organization of immunologically related genes on a large scale. The genes encoding the T cell receptor (TCR) α and δ...
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Development of CAPS and dCAPS markers for CYP82E4, CYP82E5v2 and CYP82E10 gene mutants reducing nicotine to nornicotine conversion in tobacco
Nornicotine accumulation in tobacco is of concern because nornicotine is a precursor of N-nitrosonornicotine (NNN), a tobacco constituent recognized as a carcinogen by the health community. Nornicotine is derived...
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Open AccessTranscriptomic analysis supports similar functional roles for the two thymuses of the tammar wallaby
The thymus plays a critical role in the development and maturation of T-cells. Humans have a single thoracic thymus and presence of a second thymus is considered an anomaly. However, many vertebrates have mult...
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Pyrene Fluorescence as a Molecular Probe of Miscibility in Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Nanocomposites Suitable for Microelectronic Applications
Fluorescence spectroscopy has been used to study the miscibility of methyl silsesquioxane (MSSQ)/poly(methyl methacrylate-co-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) [P(MMA-co-DMAEMA)] hybrid nanocomposites, which are...
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Silsesquioxane-based Photo-Patternable Porous Low-k Dielectric Materials
The future resolution requirements for the semiconductor industry demand advanced lithographic techniques, such as immersion and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technologies, which will increase the cost of microele...
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Marsupial Immunoglobulin and T Cell Receptor Genomics
The development of marsupial genomic resources has provided a wealth of information for the study of the development and function of the adaptive immune system in these remarkable mammals. Here is reviewed the...
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On the genomics of immunoglobulins in the gray, short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica
Annotated maps of the IGH, IGK, and IGL loci in the gray, short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica were generated from analyses of the available whole genome sequence for this species. Analyses of their content...
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Superior mechanical properties of dense and porous organic/inorganic hybrid thin films
The intrinsic mechanical properties of a given material strongly depend upon its chemical nature: the organics tend to be soft, but tough, while the inorganic materials are hard but brittle and are prone to fr...
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Open AccessComparative genomic analysis and evolution of the T cell receptor loci in the opossum Monodelphis domestica
All jawed-vertebrates have four T cell receptor (TCR) chains: alpha (TRA), beta (TRB), gamma (TRG) and delta (TRD). Marsupials appear unique by having an additional TCR: mu (TRM). The evolutionary origin of TR...
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Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences
We report a high-quality draft of the genome sequence of the grey, short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica). As the first metatherian (‘marsupial’) species to be sequenced, the opossum provides a unique persp...
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Open AccessAnalysis of a set of Australian northern brown bandicoot expressed sequence tags with comparison to the genome sequence of the South American grey short tailed opossum
Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have been used for rapid gene discovery in a variety of organisms and provide a valuable resource for whole genome annotation. Although the genome of one marsupial, the opossum Mono...
