Complete genome sequences of bacteriophages Guetzie and SirVictor, isolated from Microbacterium foliorum.

Cluster EA4 Guetzie and SirVictor are lytic siphoviral bacteriophages that were isolated from soil in Waverly, Iowa, using Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224 as the host. The Guetzie and SirVictor genomes are both 39,758 bp each, and both contain 58 predicted protein-coding genes with one tRNA gene each.

From triple quandary to talent quest: The past, present, and future of A. Wade Boykin's contributions to psychology.

A. Wade Boykin's scholarship has provided key insights into the psychological realities of racially minoritized people and catalyzed revolutionary changes in psychology and education. Combining insights from personal and research experiences, Boykin authored the foundational triple quandary (TQ), a framework describing how Black Americans must navigate the often conflicting values and priorities of dominant mainstream society, the heritage culture of Black communities, and dynamics associated with being racially minoritized. TQ describes the unique developmental challenges faced by Black children, for whom misalignment between home cultural socialization and U.S. schooling often leads to pathologizing mischaracterizations of their attitudes and behaviors, resulting in chronic academic opportunity gaps. Boykin used his training as an experimental psychologist to empirically test the validity and explanatory utility of the TQ framework and to determine whether Black cultural values could be leveraged to improve student learning. Focusing on cultural values such as expressive movement, verve, and communalism, studies with his collaborators consistently supported Boykin's framework and predictions for improving Black student achievement-related outcomes. Beginning in the early 2000s, Boykin and his colleagues began to scale the lessons of decades of empirical work into the talent quest model for school reform. The TQ and talent quest continue to evolve in their application, as scholars and practitioners have found them relevant to a diverse range of minoritized populations in American society and beyond. Boykin's work continues to bear on the scholarship, career outcomes, and day-to-day lives of many scholars, administrators, practitioners and students across disciplines and institutions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Genome Sequence and Characteristics of the Microbacterium foliorum Cluster EE Bacteriophage Burgy.

Burgy is a siphovirus that was isolated from compost soil near Fremont Township, Iowa, using Microbacterium foliorum NRRL B-24224. The genome has a length of 17,453 bp and contains 25 total protein-coding genes, 20 of which were assigned functions. Based on gene content, Burgy was assigned to actinobacteriophage cluster EE.

Examining cultural socialization within African American and European American households.

This preliminary study explored the cultural socialization processes of 227 African American and European American parents of elementary schoolchildren. The Cultural Value Socialization Scales (K. M. Tyler, A. W. Boykin, C. M. Boelter, & M. L. Dillihunt, 2005) were used to garner parents' reports of their cultural value socialization activities at home. The scales contained written vignettes depicting persons involved in activity that reflected a specific cultural value. Ethnocultural values examined were communalism, verve, movement, and affect, and mainstream cultural values included individualism, competition, bureaucracy, and materialism. Regression analyses reveal that being an African American parent was predictive of competition and materialism scores. Race was not a significant predictor of the remaining cultural value socialization scores. Limitations to the study are discussed.

Oxidant-specific folding of Yap1p regulates both transcriptional activation and nuclear localization.

The yeast transcriptional regulator Yap1p is a key determinant in oxidative stress resistance. This protein is found in the cytoplasm under non-stressed conditions but rapidly accumulates in the nucleus following oxidant exposure. There it activates transcription of genes encoding antioxidants that return the redox balance of the cell to an acceptable range. Yap1p localization to the nucleus requires the oxidant-specific formation of disulfide bonds in the N-terminal cysteine-rich domain (N-CRD) and/or the C-terminal cysteine-rich domain (C-CRD). H(2)O(2) exposure triggers the formation of two interdomain disulfide bonds between the N-and C-CRDs. This dually disulfide-bonded structure has been argued to mask the nuclear export signal in the C-CRD that would otherwise prevent Yap1p nuclear accumulation. The C-CRD is required for wild-type H(2)O(2) tolerance but dispensable for resistance to diamide. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae TRX2 gene, encoding a thioredoxin protein, cannot be induced by H(2)O(2) in the presence of various mutant forms of Yap1p lacking the normally functioning C-CRD. In this work, we demonstrate that the proper folding of Yap1p in the presence of H(2)O(2) is required for recruitment of the mediator component Rox3p to the TRX2 promoter in addition to the nuclear accumulation of Yap1p during stress by this oxidant. These data demonstrate that the dually disulfide-bonded Yap1p N- and C-CRDs form a bifunctional protein domain controlling both nuclear localization and transcriptional activation.