Ruth E. Stark

TL;DR: Results suggest that bicelles with low q retain the morphology and bilayer organization typical of their liquid-crystalline counterparts, making them useful membrane mimetics.

TL;DR: This work identified three tomato mutants, cutin deficient 1 (cd1), cd2 and cd3, the fruit cuticles of which have a dramatic reduction in cutin content and substantially altered, but distinctly different, architectures, which suggests that cutin plays an important role in protecting tissues from microbial infection.

TL;DR: Continuing research efforts have progressively revealed several notable structural characteristics of this enigmatic pigment that could further the ability to develop novel therapeutic approaches to combat fungal disease and enhance the understanding of how melanin is inserted into the cell wall.

TL;DR: Describing the transcriptomes of the five principal tissues of the pericarp from tomato fruits at their maximal growth phase provides new insights into the spatial distribution of many classes of regulatory and structural genes, including those involved in energy metabolism, source-sink relationships, secondary metabolite production, cell wall biology, and cuticle biogenesis.

TL;DR: Derivatives based on a benzotropolone skeleton have been found to inhibit TPA-induced mice ear edema, nitric oxide (NO) synthesis, and arachidonic acid release by LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 cells.