Dan Chen

Publication List Details

Period

1990 - 2009

Number

88

Co-Authors

Memoryless Routing in Convex Subdivisions: Random Walks are Optimal (2009)

Chen, Dan, Devroye, Luc, Dujmovic, Vida, Morin, Pat

A memoryless routing algorithm is one in which the decision about the next edge on the route to a vertex t for a packet currently located at vertex v is made based only on the coordinates of v, t,...

A Branch and Cut Algorithm for the Halfspace Depth Problem (2009)

Bremner, David, Chen, Dan

The concept of \emph{data depth} in non-parametric multivariate descriptive statistics is the generalization of the univariate rank method to multivariate data. \emph{Halfspace depth} is a measure of...

Nanyang Technological (2009)

Dan Chen, Stephen John Turner, Wentong Cai, Boon Ping Gan, Malcolm Yoke, Hean Low

A number of research issues arise in executing large scale High Level Architecture (HLA) based distributed simulations. In order for simulation to provide an effective decision support tool, it is...

Methyl N-[(4-chlorophenyl)(3-methyl-5-oxo-1-phenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-4-ylidene)methyl]glycinate (2009)

Xin Zhang, Meng Huang, Cong Du, Dan Chen

The title compound, C20H18ClN3O3, is in an enamine–keto form, stabilized by two strong intramolecular N—H...O hydrogen bonds. The pyrazole ring is oriented at dihedral angles of...

Performance Analysis of Shared Data Access Algorithms for Distributed Simulation of Multi-Agent Systems (2008)

Dan Chen, Georgios K. Theodoropoulos, Michael Lees, Brian Logan, Ton Oguara, Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

Distributed simulation is an important instrument for studying multi-agent systems (MAS). Such large scale MAS simulations often have a large shared state space. Moreover, the shared state and the...

The highest-copy repeats are methylated in the small genome of the early divergent vascular plant Selaginella moellendorffii (2008)

Chan, Agnes P, Melake-Berhan, Admasu, O'Brien, Kimberly, Buckley, Stephanie, Quan, Hui, Chen, Dan, ...

Abstract Background The lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii is a vascular plant that diverged from the fern/seed plant lineage at least 400 million years ago. Although genomic information for S....

Nanyang Technological University (2008)

Dan Chen, Stephen J. Turner, Wentong Cai, Boon Ping Gan, Malcolm Yoke, Hean Low

Distributed simulation cloning technology is designed to analyze alternative scenarios of a distributed simulation concurrently within the same execution session. One important goal is to optimize...

INCREMENTAL HLA-BASED DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION CLONING (2008)

R G. Ingalls, M. D. Rossetti, J. S. Smith, B. A. Peters, Dan Chen, Stephen John Turner, ...

Distributed simulation cloning technology is designed to analyze alternative scenarios of a distributed simulation concurrently within the same execution session. The goal is to optimize the...

Yi-Jen Chiang ¢ (2008)

Dan Chen, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Recent advances in three-dimensional acquisition, simulation, and design technologies have led to the generation of large polygonal meshes in 3D graphics. The emerging demand for efficiently storing,...

Alphabet partitioning techniques for semi-adaptive Huffman coding of large alphabets (2008)

Dan Chen, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Nasir Memon, ...

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

Lossless Geometry Compression for Floating-Point Data in Steady-State and Time-Varying Fields over Irregular Grids (2008)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Abstract — In this paper we investigate the problem of lossless geometry compression of irregular-grid volume data represented as a tetrahedral mesh. We propose a novel lossless compression...

Lossless Geometry Compression for Steady-State and Time-Varying Irregular Grids † (2008)

Thomas Ertl, Ken Joy, Beatriz Santos (editors, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, ...

In this paper we investigate the problem of lossless geometry compression of irregular-grid volume data represented as a tetrahedral mesh. We propose a novel lossless compression technique that...

Alphabet Partitioning Techniques for (2008)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

Lossless Compression of Point-Based 3D Models (2008)

Dan Chen

this paper, we present a single-resolution technique for lossless compression of point-based 3D models. An initial quantization step is not needed and we can achieve a truly lossless compression. The...

Bis{4-[(Z)-(4-fluorobenzylamino)(phenyl)methylene]-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-onato-κ2N4,O}nickel(II) (2008)

Xin Zhang, Guo-Ying Zhang, Dan Chen, Yu-Jing Song

The molecule of the title compound, [Ni(C24H19FN3O)2], has twofold rotation symmetry. The NiII ion is in a square-planar coordination geometry which is distorted towards tetrahedral and is...

Genetic variants in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-{gamma} gene are associated with risk of lung cancer in a Chinese population (2008)

Chen, Dan, Jin, Guangfu, Wang, Ying, Wang, Haifeng, Liu, Hongliang, Liu, Yanhong, ...

Accumulating evidence indicates that activation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) dampens the inflammation cascade and inhibits tumor growth of the lung, suggesting that...

Unified Zero-Current-Transition Techniques for High-Power Three-Phase PWM Inverters (2007)

Dan Chen, Guo-quan Lu, Yong Li, Yong Li

This dissertation is devoted to a unified and comprehensive study of zero-current-transition (ZCT) soft-switching techniques for high-power three-phase PWM inverter applications. Major efforts in...

Structure and evolution of a proviral locus of Glyptapanteles indiensisbracovirus (2007)

Desjardins, Christopher A, Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn E, Hostetler, Jessica B, Tallon, Luke J, Fuester, Roger W, Schatz, Michael C, ...

Abstract Background Bracoviruses (BVs), a group of double-stranded DNA viruses with segmented genomes, are mutualistic endosymbionts of parasitoid wasps. Virus particles are replication deficient and...

A Branch and Cut Algorithm for the Halfspace Depth Problem (2007)

Chen, Dan

The concept of data depth in non-parametric multivariate descriptive statistics is the generalization of the univariate rank method to multivariate data. Halfspace depth is a measure of data depth....

A Branch and Cut Algorithm for the Halfspace Depth Problem (2007)

Chen, Dan

The concept of data depth in non-parametric multivariate descriptive statistics is the generalization of the univariate rank method to multivariate data. Halfspace depth is a measure of data depth....

Preliminary Identification of Cultured Human Trophoblasts (2006)

Chunmei Wang, Xiaofeng Huang, Zhen Li, Dezhong Xu, Ke Men, Anhui Wang, ...

To identify the characteristics of the cultured cells isolated from human villous. The purified and subcultured cells were derived from human placentae villous. The cellular morphology was observed...

Preliminary Identification of Cultured Human Trophoblasts (2006)

Chunmei Wang, Xiaofeng Huang, Zhen Li, Dezhong Xu, Ke Men, Anhui Wang, ...

To identify the characteristics of the cultured cells isolated from human villous. The purified and subcultured cells were derived from human placentae villous. The cellular morphology was observed...

Outputsensitive algorithms for Tukey depth and related problems, Submitted (2006)

David Bremner, Stefan Langerman, Dan Chen, Pat Morin, John Iacono

ABSTRACT. The Tukey depth (Tukey 1975) of a point p with respect to a finite set S of points is the minimum number of elements of S contained in any closed halfspace that contains p. Algorithms for...

Outputsensitive algorithms for Tukey depth and related problems, Submitted (2006)

David Bremner, Dan Chen, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, Pat Morin

ABSTRACT. The Tukey depth (Tukey 1975) of a point p with respect to a finite set S of points is the minimum number of elements of S contained in any closed halfspace that contains p. Algorithms for...

Cloning Mechanisms for High Level Architecture Based Distributed Simulation (2006)

Dan Chen, Chen Dan, Chen Dan

This thesis investigates novel control mechanisms for large-scale distributed simulation based on simulation cloning. Distributed simulation cloning technology is designed to analyze alternative...

Tool Support for Systematic Ontology Building (2005)

Chen, Dan

Started in the beginning of 2001, the Semantic Web technology is regarded by many as the next generation of the Web. It aims at reaching the full potential of the Web by semantically marking-up data...

On the Security of a Digital Signature with Message Recovery Using Self-certified Public Key. Informatica 29:343–346 (2005)

Jianhong Zhang, Wei Zou, Dan Chen, Yumin Wang

Self-certified public keys are proposed to eliminate the burden of verifying the public key before using. To alleviate reliance on system authority and strengthen the security of system, Chang et al...

Yi-Jen Chiang z (2005)

Dan Chen, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Abstract Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for...

Geometry Compression Of Tetrahedral Meshes Using Optimized (2005)

Prediction Dan Chen, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

In this paper we propose a novel geometry compression technique for volumetric datasets represented as tetrahedral meshes. We focus on a commonly used technique for predicting vertex geometries via a...

Lossless Geometry Compression for Steady-State and (2005)

Dan Chen

In this paper we investigate the problem of lossless geometry compression of irregular-grid volume data represented as a tetrahedral mesh. We propose a novel lossless compression technique that...

Lossless geometry compression for steady-state and time-varying irregular grids (2005)

Tetrahedral Meshes, Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

In recent years, new challenges for scientific visualization have emerged as the size of data generated from simulations has grown exponentially. The emerging demand for efficiently storing,...

Management of simulation cloning for HLA-based distributed simulations (2004)

Dan Chen, Stephen John Turner, Boon Ping Gan, Wentong Cai, Malcom Yoke, Hean Low, ...

ABSTRACT: Distributed simulation cloning technology is designed to analyze alternative scenarios of a distributed simulation concurrently within the same simulation execution session. One important...

Security of Open Source Software Given By: SS4 (2004)

Yi Fan, Daohong Mu, Han Hu, Dan Chen, Hao Wu, Mu Li, ...

• Definition • Similarities and Differences (OS / Proprietary) • Deal with one type of secure (protocol /

Integrative Genomics: In Silico Coupling of Rat Physiology and Complex Traits With Mouse and Human Data (2004)

Twigger, Simon N., Nie, Jeff, Ruotti, Victor, Yu, Jiaming, Chen, Dan, Li, Dawei, ...

Integration of the large variety of genome maps from several organisms provides the mechanism by which physiological knowledge obtained in model systems such as the rat can be projected onto the...

High-Density Rat Radiation Hybrid Maps Containing Over 24,000 SSLPs, Genes, and ESTs Provide a Direct Link to the Rat Genome Sequence (2004)

Kwitek, Anne E., Gullings-Handley, Jo, Yu, Jiaming, Carlos, Danilo C., Orlebeke, Kimberly, Nie, Jeff, ...

The laboratory rat is a major model organism for systems biology. To complement the cornucopia of physiological and pharmacological data generated in the rat, a large genomic toolset has been...

A decoupled federate architecture for distributed simulation cloning (2003)

Dan Chen, Stephen John Turner, Boon Ping Gan, Wentong Cai, Junhu Wei

cloning, decoupled federate architecture, fault tolerance. Distributed simulation cloning technology is designed to perform “what-if ” analysis of existing High Level Architecture (HLA) based...

Optimal Alphabet Partitioning for Semi-Adaptive Coding of Sources of Unknown Sparse Distributions (2003)

Dan Chen, Yi-Jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable pre x coding for each...

Optimal alphabet partitioning for semi-adaptive coding of sources with unknown sparse distributions (2003)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

Optimal alphabet partitioning for semi-adaptive coding of sources with unknown sparse distributions (2003)

Dan Chen, Yi-jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu

Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets of-ten partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix coding for each...

Design and analysis of decentralized PID control systems / (2002)

Chen, Dan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002.

Rat Genome Database (RGD): mapping disease onto the genome (2002)

Twigger, Simon, Lu, Jian, Shimoyama, Mary, Chen, Dan, Pasko, Dean, Long, Hanping, ...

The Rat Genome Database (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu) is an NIH-funded project whose stated mission is ‘to collect, consolidate and integrate data generated from ongoing rat genetic and genomic...

Induction of Apoptosis by Targeting the Microtubule Network: Using HIV Tat as a Model System (1998)

Chen, Dan, Zhou, Qiang

Depletion of CD4+ T cells is the hallmark of HIV Infection and AIDS progression. In addition to the direct killing of the viral-infected cells, HIV infection also leads to increased apoptosis of...

Induction of Apoptosis by Targeting the Microtubule Network: Using HIV Tat as a Model System (1998)

Chen, Dan, Zhou, Qiang

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-l) is the etiological agent for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV-1 encodes a small trans-acting regulatory protein, Tat, which is absolutely...

High-Frequency Dimensional Effects in Ferrite-Core Magnetic Devices (1996)

Dan Chen, Werner Kohler, Glenn R. Skutt, Glenn R. Skutt

MnZn ferrites are widely used in power electronics applications where the switching frequency is in the range of several tens of kilohertz to a megahertz. In this range of frequencies the combination...

Molecular basis for developmental changes in interleukin-2 gene inducibility (1993)

Chen, Dan, Rothenberg, Ellen V.

At least three stages in the intrathymic development of pre-T cells are demarcated by differences in the competence to express the interleukin-2 (IL-2) gene as an acute response to stimulation. IL-2...

Interleukin-1 Synergy with Phosphoinositide Pathway Agonists for Induction of Interleukin-2 Gene Expression: Molecular Basis of Costimulation (1990)

Novak, Thomas J., Chen, Dan, Rothenberg, Ellen V.

The macrophage-derived cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1) can provide a second signal with antigen to elicit production of interleukin-2 (IL-2) by helper T cells. The pathway(s) involved remains...

Specific interaction of Tat with the human but not rodent P-TEFb complex mediates the species-specific Tat activation of HIV-1 transcription

Chen, Dan, Fong, Yick, Zhou, Qiang

Tat stimulation of HIV-1 transcriptional elongation is species-specific and is believed to require a specific cellular cofactor present in many human and primate cells but not in nonpermissive rodent...

MIR16, a putative membrane glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase, interacts with RGS16

Zheng, Bin, Chen, Dan, Farquhar, Marilyn Gist

We have identified the protein MIR16 (for Membrane Interacting protein of RGS16) from a yeast two-hybrid screen by using RGS16 as bait. MIR16 shares strong homology with bacterial...

A large upstream region is not necessary for gene expression or hypersensitive site formation at the mouse β-globin locus

Farrell, Catherine M., Grinberg, Alexander, Huang, Sing Ping, Chen, Dan, Pichel, José G., Westphal, Heiner, ...

Developmental expression at the β-globin locus is regulated in part by the locus control region, a region upstream of the genes containing at least five major DNase I hypersensitive sites (HSs) in...

Tat Activates Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Transcriptional Elongation Independent of TFIIH Kinase

Chen, Dan, Zhou, Qiang

Tat stimulates human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transcriptional elongation by recruitment of the human transcription elongation factor P-TEFb, consisting of Cdk9 and cyclin T1, to the...

Rat Genome Database (RGD): mapping disease onto the genome

Twigger, Simon, Lu, Jian, Shimoyama, Mary, Chen, Dan, Pasko, Dean, Long, Hanping, ...

The Rat Genome Database (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu) is an NIH-funded project whose stated mission is ‘to collect, consolidate and integrate data generated from ongoing rat genetic and genomic...

HIV-1 Tat targets microtubules to induce apoptosis, a process promoted by the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 relative Bim

Chen, Dan, Wang, Michael, Zhou, Sharleen, Zhou, Qiang

Depletion of CD4+ T cells is the hallmark of HIV infection and AIDS progression. In addition to the direct killing of the viral-infected cells, HIV infection also leads to increased apoptosis of...

Automated Construction of High-Density Comparative Maps Between Rat, Human, and Mouse

Kwitek, Anne E., Tonellato, Peter J., Chen, Dan, Gullings-Handley, Jo, Cheng, Yongjian Samuel, Twigger, Simon, ...

Animal models have been used primarily as surrogates for humans, having similar disease-based phenotypes. Genomic organization also tends to be conserved between species, leading to the generation of...

The Ski oncoprotein interacts with the Smad proteins to repress TGFβ signaling

Luo, Kunxin, Stroschein, Shannon L., Wang, Wei, Chen, Dan, Martens, Eric, Zhou, Sharleen, ...

Smad proteins are critical signal transducers downstream of the receptors of the transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) superfamily. On phosphorylation and activation by the active TGFβ receptor...

Caspase cleavage of BimEL triggers a positive feedback amplification of apoptotic signaling

Chen, Dan, Zhou, Qiang

Members of the Bcl-2 protein family that share only the Bcl-2 homology 3 (BH3) domain are known mostly as sentinels for apoptotic stimuli and initiators of apoptosis. One BH3-only protein, Bim, is...

Integrative Genomics: In Silico Coupling of Rat Physiology and Complex Traits With Mouse and Human Data

Twigger, Simon N., Nie, Jeff, Ruotti, Victor, Yu, Jiaming, Chen, Dan, Li, Dawei, ...

Integration of the large variety of genome maps from several organisms provides the mechanism by which physiological knowledge obtained in model systems such as the rat can be projected onto the...

High-Density Rat Radiation Hybrid Maps Containing Over 24,000 SSLPs, Genes, and ESTs Provide a Direct Link to the Rat Genome Sequence

Kwitek, Anne E., Gullings-Handley, Jo, Yu, Jiaming, Carlos, Danilo C., Orlebeke, Kimberly, Nie, Jeff, ...

The laboratory rat is a major model organism for systems biology. To complement the cornucopia of physiological and pharmacological data generated in the rat, a large genomic toolset has been...

The Aspergillus fumigatus StuA Protein Governs the Up-Regulation of a Discrete Transcriptional Program during the Acquisition of Developmental CompetenceD⃞

Sheppard, Donald C., Doedt, Thomas, Chiang, Lisa Y., Kim, H. Stanley, Chen, Dan, Nierman, William C., ...

Members of the Asm1p, Phd1p, Sok2p, Efg1p, and StuAp (APSES) family of fungal proteins regulate morphogenesis and virulence in ascomycetes. We cloned the Aspergillus fumigatus APSES gene encoding...

Specific interaction of Tat with the human but not rodent P-TEFb complex mediates the species-specific Tat activation of HIV-1 transcription

Chen, Dan, Fong, Yick, Zhou, Qiang

Tat stimulation of HIV-1 transcriptional elongation is species-specific and is believed to require a specific cellular cofactor present in many human and primate cells but not in nonpermissive rodent...

MIR16, a putative membrane glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase, interacts with RGS16

Zheng, Bin, Chen, Dan, Farquhar, Marilyn Gist

We have identified the protein MIR16 (for Membrane Interacting protein of RGS16) from a yeast two-hybrid screen by using RGS16 as bait. MIR16 shares strong homology with bacterial...

A large upstream region is not necessary for gene expression or hypersensitive site formation at the mouse β-globin locus

Farrell, Catherine M., Grinberg, Alexander, Huang, Sing Ping, Chen, Dan, Pichel, José G., Westphal, Heiner, ...

Developmental expression at the β-globin locus is regulated in part by the locus control region, a region upstream of the genes containing at least five major DNase I hypersensitive sites (HSs) in...

Tat Activates Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Transcriptional Elongation Independent of TFIIH Kinase

Chen, Dan, Zhou, Qiang

Tat stimulates human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transcriptional elongation by recruitment of the human transcription elongation factor P-TEFb, consisting of Cdk9 and cyclin T1, to the...

Rat Genome Database (RGD): mapping disease onto the genome

Twigger, Simon, Lu, Jian, Shimoyama, Mary, Chen, Dan, Pasko, Dean, Long, Hanping, ...

The Rat Genome Database (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu) is an NIH-funded project whose stated mission is ‘to collect, consolidate and integrate data generated from ongoing rat genetic and genomic...

HIV-1 Tat targets microtubules to induce apoptosis, a process promoted by the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 relative Bim

Chen, Dan, Wang, Michael, Zhou, Sharleen, Zhou, Qiang

Depletion of CD4+ T cells is the hallmark of HIV infection and AIDS progression. In addition to the direct killing of the viral-infected cells, HIV infection also leads to increased apoptosis of...

Automated Construction of High-Density Comparative Maps Between Rat, Human, and Mouse

Kwitek, Anne E., Tonellato, Peter J., Chen, Dan, Gullings-Handley, Jo, Cheng, Yongjian Samuel, Twigger, Simon, ...

Animal models have been used primarily as surrogates for humans, having similar disease-based phenotypes. Genomic organization also tends to be conserved between species, leading to the generation of...

The Ski oncoprotein interacts with the Smad proteins to repress TGFβ signaling

Luo, Kunxin, Stroschein, Shannon L., Wang, Wei, Chen, Dan, Martens, Eric, Zhou, Sharleen, ...

Smad proteins are critical signal transducers downstream of the receptors of the transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) superfamily. On phosphorylation and activation by the active TGFβ receptor...

Caspase cleavage of BimEL triggers a positive feedback amplification of apoptotic signaling

Chen, Dan, Zhou, Qiang

Members of the Bcl-2 protein family that share only the Bcl-2 homology 3 (BH3) domain are known mostly as sentinels for apoptotic stimuli and initiators of apoptosis. One BH3-only protein, Bim, is...

Integrative Genomics: In Silico Coupling of Rat Physiology and Complex Traits With Mouse and Human Data

Twigger, Simon N., Nie, Jeff, Ruotti, Victor, Yu, Jiaming, Chen, Dan, Li, Dawei, ...

Integration of the large variety of genome maps from several organisms provides the mechanism by which physiological knowledge obtained in model systems such as the rat can be projected onto the...

High-Density Rat Radiation Hybrid Maps Containing Over 24,000 SSLPs, Genes, and ESTs Provide a Direct Link to the Rat Genome Sequence

Kwitek, Anne E., Gullings-Handley, Jo, Yu, Jiaming, Carlos, Danilo C., Orlebeke, Kimberly, Nie, Jeff, ...

The laboratory rat is a major model organism for systems biology. To complement the cornucopia of physiological and pharmacological data generated in the rat, a large genomic toolset has been...

The Aspergillus fumigatus StuA Protein Governs the Up-Regulation of a Discrete Transcriptional Program during the Acquisition of Developmental CompetenceD⃞

Sheppard, Donald C., Doedt, Thomas, Chiang, Lisa Y., Kim, H. Stanley, Chen, Dan, Nierman, William C., ...

Members of the Asm1p, Phd1p, Sok2p, Efg1p, and StuAp (APSES) family of fungal proteins regulate morphogenesis and virulence in ascomycetes. We cloned the Aspergillus fumigatus APSES gene encoding...

Sub-Telomere Directed Gene Expression during Initiation of Invasive Aspergillosis

McDonagh, Andrew, Fedorova, Natalie D., Crabtree, Jonathan, Yu, Yan, Kim, Stanley, Chen, Dan, ...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a common mould whose spores are a component of the normal airborne flora. Immune dysfunction permits developmental growth of inhaled spores in the human lung causing...

Characteristic and Expression Analysis of a Metallothionein Gene, OsMT2b, Down-Regulated by Cytokinin Suggests Functions in Root Development and Seed Embryo Germination of Rice1[OA]

Yuan, Jing, Chen, Dan, Ren, Yujun, Zhang, Xuelian, Zhao, Jie

Metallothioneins (MTs) are low molecular mass and cysteine-rich metal-binding proteins known to be mainly involved in maintaining metal homeostasis and stress responses. But, their functions in...

Transcriptional Profiling Identifies a Role for BrlA in the Response to Nitrogen Depletion and for StuA in the Regulation of Secondary Metabolite Clusters in Aspergillus fumigatus▿ ‡

Twumasi-Boateng, Kwame, Yu, Yan, Chen, Dan, Gravelat, Fabrice N., Nierman, William C., Sheppard, Donald C.

Conidiation (asexual sporulation) is a key developmental process in filamentous fungi. We examined the gene regulatory roles of the Aspergillus fumigatus developmental transcription factors StuAp and...

Activation of the integrins α5β1 and αvβ3 and focal adhesion kinase (FAK) during arteriogenesis

Cai, Wei-Jun, Li, Ming Bo, Wu, Xiaoqiong, Wu, Song, Zhu, Wu, Chen, Dan, ...

Migration and proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMC) are important events during arteriogenesis, but the underlying mechanism is still only partially understood. The present study investigates...