B. Shen

Publication List Details

Period

1978 - 2006

Number

61

Co-Authors

Inclusive Production of Charged Hadrons in Photon-Photon Collisions (2006)

Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Anagnostou, G, Anderson, K, ...

The inclusive production of charged hadrons in the collisions of quasi-real photons e+e- -> e+e- +X has been measured using the OPAL detector at LEP. The data were taken at e+e- centre-of-mass...

Reduced Paneth cell alpha-defensins in ileal Crohn's disease (2005)

Wehkamp, J, Salzman, N H, Porter, E, Nuding, S, Weichenthal, M, Petras, R E, ...

The pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD), an idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease, is attributed, in part, to intestinal bacteria that may initiate and perpetuate mucosal inflammation in genetically...

Human defensin 5 expression in intestinal metaplasia of the upper gastrointestinal tract (2005)

Shen, B, Porter, E M, Reynoso, E, Shen, C, Ghosh, D, Connor, J T, ...

Background: Upper gastrointestinal tract intestinal metaplasia (IM) is termed Barrett's oesophagus (BO) or gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM), depending on its location. BO and GIM are associated...

Human defensin 5 expression in intestinal metaplasia of the upper gastrointestinal tract. (2005)

Shen, B, Porter, E M, Reynoso, E, Shen, C, Ghosh, D, Connor, J T, ...

BACKGROUND: Upper gastrointestinal tract intestinal metaplasia (IM) is termed Barrett's oesophagus (BO) or gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM), depending on its location. BO and GIM are associated...

Field-Driven Hysteretic and Reversible Resistive Switch at the Ag-Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 Interface (2002)

Baikalov, A., Wang, Y. Q., Shen, B., Lorenz, B., Tsui, S., Sun, Y. Y., ...

The hysteretic and reversible polarity-dependent resistive switch driven by electric pulses is studied in both Ag/Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7 sandwiches and single-layer Pr0.7Ca0.3MnO3 strips. The data...

The high-energy gamma-ray fluence and energy spectrum of GRB 970417a from observations with Milagrito (2002)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Chen, M. L., Coyne, D. G., Dingus, B. L., ...

Evidence of TeV emission from GRB970417a has been previously reported using data from the Milagrito detector. Constraints on the TeV fluence and the energy spectrum are now derived using additional...

The biosynthetic gene cluster for the anticancer drug bleomycin from Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003 as a model for hybrid peptide-polyketide natural product biosynthesis (2001)

Shen, B., Du, Liangcheng, Sanchez, C., Edwards, D. J., Chen, M., Murrell, J. M.

The hybrid peptide-polyketide backbone of bleomycin (BLM) is assembled by the BLM megasynthetase that consists of both nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) modules....

Evidence for TeV Emission from GRB 970417a (2000)

Benbow, W., Berley, D., Chen, M. L., Coyne, D. G., Dingus, B. L., ...

Milagrito, a detector sensitive to very high energy gamma rays, monitored the northern sky from February 1997 through May 1998. With a large field of view and a high duty cycle, this instrument was...

First Results of a Study of TeV Emission from GRBs in Milagrito (1999)

McEnery, J. E., Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Chen, M. L., Coyne, D. G., ...

Milagrito, a detector sensitive to gamma-rays at TeV energies, monitored the northern sky during the period February 1997 through May 1998. With a large field of view and high duty cycle, this...

Instrumented Water Tanks can Improve Air Shower Detector Sensitivity (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

Previous works have shown that water Cherenkov detectors have superior sensitivity to those of scintillation counters as applied to detecting extensive air showers (EAS). This is in large part due to...

Calibration of the Milagro Cosmic Ray Telescope (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

The Milagro detector is an air shower array which uses the water Cherenkov technique and is capable of continuously monitoring the sky at energies near 1 TeV. The detector consists of 20000 metric...

Status of the Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

The Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory is the world's first large-area water Cherenkov detector capable of continuously monitoring the sky at TeV energies. Located in northern New Mexico, Milagro will...

Milagrito Detection of TeV Emission from Mrk 501 (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

The Milagro water Cherenkov detector near Los Alamos, New Mexico, has been operated as a sky monitor at energies of a few TeV between February 1997 and April 1998. Serving as a test run for the full...

Search for a TeV Component of GRBs using the Milagrito Detector (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

Observing gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in the TeV energy range can be extremely valuable in providing insight to GRB radiation mechanisms and in constraining source distances. The Milagrito detector was...

Search for Short Duration Bursts of TeV Gamma Rays with the Milagrito Telescope (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

The Milagrito water Cherenkov telescope operated for over a year. The most probable gamma-ray energy was ~1 TeV and the trigger rate was as high as 400 Hz. We have developed an efficient technique...

Detection of 6 November 1997 Ground Level Event by Milagrito (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

Solar Energetic Particles from the 6 November 1997 solar flare/CME(coronal mass ejection) with energies exceeding 10 GeV have been detected by Milagrito, a prototype of the Milagro Gamma Ray...

Study of the Shadows of the Moon and the Sun with VHE Cosmic Rays (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

Milagrito, a prototype for the Milagro detector, operated for 15 months in 1997-8 and collected 8.9 billion events. It was the first extensive air shower (EAS) array sensitive to showers intiated by...

An All-Sky Search for Steady VHE Gamma-Ray Sources (1999)

Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Coyne, D. G., Delay, R. S., ...

The Milagrito water Cherenkov detector in the Jemez Mountains near Los Alamos, New Mexico took data from February 1997 to April 1998. Milagrito served as a prototype for the larger Milagro detector,...

Growth hormone as a cytokine (1999)

Waters, M. J., Shang, C. A., Behncken, S. N., Tam, S. P., Li, H., Shen, B., ...

1. The growth hormone (GH) receptor was the first of the class 1 cytokine receptors to be cloned. It shares a number of structural characteristics with other family members and common signalling...

Growth hormone as a cytokine (1999)

Waters, M. J., Shang, C. A., Behncken, S. N., Tam, S. P., Li, H., Shen, B., ...

1. The growth hormone (GH) receptor was the first of the class 1 cytokine receptors to be cloned. It shares a number of structural characteristics with other family members and common signalling...

Investigation of Tribological Properties of Brake Shoe Materials - Phosphorous Cast Irons With Different Graphite Morphologies. (1998)

Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., He, R., Shen, B.

The tribological properties of phosphorus cast iron with various graphite morphologies were studied. Compacted graphite phophorus cast iron has the highest friction coefficient and lowest wear loss,...

The Structure and Mechanical Properties of Alloy 718 DA Disk on Hammer. (1998)

Liang, X., Yang, Y., Shen, B., Cai, B., Huang, F.

This paper concerned metals in some important way and contained information about, utilized, or discussed these subjects: basic topics: experimental materials and material types:...

The Shadow Of The Moon As Seen By Milagrito (1997)

D. Berley, M. Cavalli-sforza, M. L. Chen, D. Coyne, D. Dorfan, R. W. Ellsworth, ...

In 1957, Clark (1957) recognized that the moon casts a shadow in the isotropic flux of cosmic-ray nuclei. It was not until the early 1990's that an extensive air shower array had the required angular...

Convolution-Based Edge Detection for Image/Video in Block DCT Domain (1997)

B. Shen, I. K. Sethi

This paper presents a scheme for performing convolution operation directly on compressed images without decompressing them first. The use of such a scheme is demonstrated and discussed by showing the...

Algebraic-geometric codes and their decoding algorithm (1992)

Shen, B

Doctoral degree 28-09-1992; Department of Mathematics and Computing Science; Supervisors: J.H. van Lint and G.B.M. van der Geer

MELT-SPUN MIXTURES BETWEEN Nd2Fe14B AND Nd1.1Fe4B4 (1988)

Shen, B., Ding, J., Gu, B., Homburg, H., Methfessel, S.

We prepared ribbons of the pseudobinary alloys (1-x) T1+xT2 with T1 = (Nd2Fe14B) and T2 = (Nd1.1Fe4B4) and 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 by rapid quenching on a Cu-drum. The effect of composition and heat...

MELT-SPUN MIXTURES BETWEEN Nd2Fe14B AND Nd1.1Fe4B4 (1988)

Shen, B., Ding, J., Gu, B., Homburg, H., Methfessel, S.

We prepared ribbons of the pseudobinary alloys (1-x) T1+xT2 with T1 = (Nd2Fe14B) and T2 = (Nd1.1Fe4B4) and 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 by rapid quenching on a Cu-drum. The effect of composition and heat...

MELT-SPUN MIXTURES BETWEEN Nd2Fe14B AND Nd1.1Fe4B4 (1988)

Shen, B., Ding, J., Gu, B., Homburg, H., Methfessel, S.

We prepared ribbons of the pseudobinary alloys (1-x) T1+xT2 with T1 = (Nd2Fe14B) and T2 = (Nd1.1Fe4B4) and 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 by rapid quenching on a Cu-drum. The effect of composition and heat...

Deciphering the mechanism for the assembly of aromatic polyketides by a bacterial polyketide synthase.

Shen, B, Hutchinson, C R

Aromatic polyketides are assembled by a type 11 (iterative) polyketide synthase (PKS) in bacteria. Understanding the enzymology of such enzymes should provide the information needed for the synthesis...

Site-directed mutagenesis of Azotobacter vinelandii ferredoxin I: cysteine ligation of the [4Fe-4S] cluster with protein rearrangement is preferred over serine ligation.

Shen, B, Jollie, D R, Diller, T C, Stout, C D, Stephens, P J, Burgess, B K

The [4Fe-4S] cluster of Azotobacter vinelandii ferredoxin I receives three of its four ligands from a Cys-Xaa-Xaa-Cys-Xaa-Xaa-Cys sequence at positions 39-45 while the fourth ligand, Cys20, is...

Functional analysis of point mutations in human flap endonuclease-1 active site.

Shen, B, Nolan, J P, Sklar, L A, Park, M S

Human flap endonuclease-1 (hFEN-1) is highly homologous to human XPG, Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD2 and S.cerevisiae RTH1 and shares structural and functional similarity with viral exonucleases such...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae exonuclease-1 plays a role in UV resistance that is distinct from nucleotide excision repair.

Qiu, J, Guan, M X, Bailis, A M, Shen, B

Two closely related genes, EXO1 and DIN 7, in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been found to be sequence homologs of the exo1 gene from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe ....

Increased resistance to oxidative stress in transgenic plants by targeting mannitol biosynthesis to chloroplasts.

Shen, B, Jensen, R G, Bohnert, H J

To investigate the potential role of a polyol, mannitol, in oxidative stress protection, a bacterial mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase gene was targeted to chloroplasts by the addition of an...

Mannitol Protects against Oxidation by Hydroxyl Radicals.

Shen, B., Jensen, R. G., Bohnert, H. J.

Hydroxyl radicals may be responsible for oxidative damage during drought or chilling stress. We have shown that the presence of mannitol in chloroplasts can protect plants against oxidative damage by...

Purification and characterization of the acyl carrier protein of the Streptomyces glaucescens tetracenomycin C polyketide synthase.

Shen, B, Summers, R G, Gramajo, H, Bibb, M J, Hutchinson, C R

The acyl carrier protein (ACP) of the tetracenomycin C polyketide synthase, encoded by the tcmM gene, has been expressed in both Streptomyces glaucescens and Escherichia coli and purified to...

Azotobacter vinelandii mutS: nucleotide sequence and mutant analysis.

Le, O, Shen, B, Iismaa, S E, Burgess, B K

An Azotobacter vinelandii homolog to the Salmonella typhimurium mutS gene was discovered upstream of the fdxA gene. The product of this gene is much more similar to S. typhimurium MutS than either is...

The DNA-binding and enhancer-blocking domains of the Drosophila suppressor of Hairy-wing protein.

Kim, J, Shen, B, Rosen, C, Dorsett, D

Mutations in the suppressor of Hairy-wing [su(Hw)] gene of Drosophila melanogaster can cause female sterility and suppress mutations that are insertions of the gypsy retrotransposon. Gypsy binds the...

The enhancer-blocking suppressor of Hairy-wing zinc finger protein of Drosophila melanogaster alters DNA structure.

Shen, B, Kim, J, Dorsett, D

Insertion of the gypsy retrotransposon of Drosophila melanogaster into a gene control region can repress gene expression. The zinc finger protein (SUHW) encoded by the suppressor of Hairy-wing...

The Drosophila Melanogaster Suppressor of Hairy-Wing Zinc Finger Protein Has Minimal Effects on Gene Expression in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Kim, J., Shen, B., Dorsett, D.

Many mutations in Drosophila melanogaster are gypsy retrotransposon insertions. Gypsy binds the protein (SUHW) encoded by the suppressor of Hairy-wing [su(Hw)] gene, and SUHW alters expression of...

Deciphering the mechanism for the assembly of aromatic polyketides by a bacterial polyketide synthase.

Shen, B, Hutchinson, C R

Aromatic polyketides are assembled by a type 11 (iterative) polyketide synthase (PKS) in bacteria. Understanding the enzymology of such enzymes should provide the information needed for the synthesis...

Site-directed mutagenesis of Azotobacter vinelandii ferredoxin I: cysteine ligation of the [4Fe-4S] cluster with protein rearrangement is preferred over serine ligation.

Shen, B, Jollie, D R, Diller, T C, Stout, C D, Stephens, P J, Burgess, B K

The [4Fe-4S] cluster of Azotobacter vinelandii ferredoxin I receives three of its four ligands from a Cys-Xaa-Xaa-Cys-Xaa-Xaa-Cys sequence at positions 39-45 while the fourth ligand, Cys20, is...

Functional analysis of point mutations in human flap endonuclease-1 active site.

Shen, B, Nolan, J P, Sklar, L A, Park, M S

Human flap endonuclease-1 (hFEN-1) is highly homologous to human XPG, Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD2 and S.cerevisiae RTH1 and shares structural and functional similarity with viral exonucleases such...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae exonuclease-1 plays a role in UV resistance that is distinct from nucleotide excision repair.

Qiu, J, Guan, M X, Bailis, A M, Shen, B

Two closely related genes, EXO1 and DIN 7, in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been found to be sequence homologs of the exo1 gene from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe ....

Increased resistance to oxidative stress in transgenic plants by targeting mannitol biosynthesis to chloroplasts.

Shen, B, Jensen, R G, Bohnert, H J

To investigate the potential role of a polyol, mannitol, in oxidative stress protection, a bacterial mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase gene was targeted to chloroplasts by the addition of an...

Mannitol Protects against Oxidation by Hydroxyl Radicals.

Shen, B., Jensen, R. G., Bohnert, H. J.

Hydroxyl radicals may be responsible for oxidative damage during drought or chilling stress. We have shown that the presence of mannitol in chloroplasts can protect plants against oxidative damage by...

Purification and characterization of the acyl carrier protein of the Streptomyces glaucescens tetracenomycin C polyketide synthase.

Shen, B, Summers, R G, Gramajo, H, Bibb, M J, Hutchinson, C R

The acyl carrier protein (ACP) of the tetracenomycin C polyketide synthase, encoded by the tcmM gene, has been expressed in both Streptomyces glaucescens and Escherichia coli and purified to...

Azotobacter vinelandii mutS: nucleotide sequence and mutant analysis.

Le, O, Shen, B, Iismaa, S E, Burgess, B K

An Azotobacter vinelandii homolog to the Salmonella typhimurium mutS gene was discovered upstream of the fdxA gene. The product of this gene is much more similar to S. typhimurium MutS than either is...

The DNA-binding and enhancer-blocking domains of the Drosophila suppressor of Hairy-wing protein.

Kim, J, Shen, B, Rosen, C, Dorsett, D

Mutations in the suppressor of Hairy-wing [su(Hw)] gene of Drosophila melanogaster can cause female sterility and suppress mutations that are insertions of the gypsy retrotransposon. Gypsy binds the...

The enhancer-blocking suppressor of Hairy-wing zinc finger protein of Drosophila melanogaster alters DNA structure.

Shen, B, Kim, J, Dorsett, D

Insertion of the gypsy retrotransposon of Drosophila melanogaster into a gene control region can repress gene expression. The zinc finger protein (SUHW) encoded by the suppressor of Hairy-wing...

The Drosophila Melanogaster Suppressor of Hairy-Wing Zinc Finger Protein Has Minimal Effects on Gene Expression in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Kim, J., Shen, B., Dorsett, D.

Many mutations in Drosophila melanogaster are gypsy retrotransposon insertions. Gypsy binds the protein (SUHW) encoded by the suppressor of Hairy-wing [su(Hw)] gene, and SUHW alters expression of...

Human defensin 5 expression in intestinal metaplasia of the upper gastrointestinal tract

Shen, B, Porter, E M, Reynoso, E, Shen, C, Ghosh, D, Connor, J T, ...

Background: Upper gastrointestinal tract intestinal metaplasia (IM) is termed Barrett’s oesophagus (BO) or gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM), depending on its location. BO and GIM are associated...

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF RELAXATION IN AlGaN/GaN HETEROSTRUCTURES

Z. S. JIANG, W. ZHANG, Q. JI, J. XU, D. J. CHEN, B. SHEN, ...

Effects of Si3N4 passivation layer on the lattice strain of Al0.22Ga0.78N layer with the thickness of 100 nm has been studied by in situ X-ray diffraction by the temperature range of...