Jun Zhu

Publication List Details

Period

1994 - 2009

Number

193

Co-Authors

Partially Observed Maximum Entropy Discrimination Markov Networks (2009)

Jun Zhu, Eric P. Xing, Bo Zhang

Learning graphical models with hidden variables can offer semantic insights to complex data and lead to salient structured predictors without relying on expensive, sometime unattainable fully...

Performance Analysis of Reconfiguration in Adaptive Real-Time Streaming Applications (2009)

Jun Zhu, Ingo S, Axel Jantsch

We propose a design optimization framework for adaptive real-time streaming applications. The main contribution is a hybrid approach for performance analysis combining formal analysis and simulation...

Energy Efficient Streaming Applications with Guaranteed Throughput on MPSoCs (2009)

Jun Zhu, Ingo S, Axel Jantsch

In this paper we present a design space exploration flow to achieve energy efficiency for streaming applications on MPSoCs while meeting the specified throughput constraints. The public domain...

Disentangling molecular relationships with a causal inference test (2009)

Millstein, Joshua, Zhang, Bin, Zhu, Jun, Schadt, Eric E

Abstract Background There has been intense effort over the past couple of decades to identify loci underlying quantitative traits as a key step in the process of elucidating the etiology of complex...

Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease (2009)

Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parrish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...

Abstract Background Obesity is a particularly complex disease that at least partially involves genetic and environmental perturbations to gene-networks connecting the hypothalamus and several...

Maximum Entropy Discrimination Markov Networks (2009)

Zhu, Jun, Xing, Eric P.

In this paper, we present a novel and general framework called {\it Maximum Entropy Discrimination Markov Networks} (MaxEnDNet), which integrates the max-margin structured learning and Bayesian-style...

Additional files for “Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease” (2009)

Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parrish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...

Figure S1 shows the connectivity distribution P(k) for GGC networks. Figure S2 shows FDR curves for each tissue in the analysis. Figure S3 shows modules in single tissue GGC networks as detected by...

Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease (2009)

Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...

Background: Obesity is a particularly complex disease that at least partially involves genetic and environmental perturbations to gene-networks connecting the hypothalamus and several metabolic...

Energy and Design Cost Efficiency for Streaming Applications on Systems-on-Chip (2009)

Zhu, Jun

With the increasing capacity of today's integrated circuits, a number ofheterogeneous  system-on-chip (SoC)  architectures  in embedded  systemshave been proposed. In order to achieve energy and...

Integrating siRNA and protein-protein interaction data to identify an expanded insulin signaling network (2009)

Tu, Zhidong, Argmann, Carmen, Wong, Kenny K., Mitnaul, Lyndon J., Edwards, Stephen, Sach, Iliana C., ...

Insulin resistance is one of the dominant symptoms of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Although the molecular mechanisms leading to this resistance are largely unknown, experimental data support that the...

Regulatory targets of quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae: evidence for two distinct HapR-binding motifs (2009)

Tsou, Amy M., Cai, Tao, Liu, Zhi, Zhu, Jun, Kulkarni, Rahul V.

The quorum-sensing pathway in Vibrio cholerae controls the expression of the master regulator HapR, which in turn regulates several important processes such as virulence factor production and biofilm...

Energy and Design Cost Efficiency for Streaming Applications on Systems-on-Chip (2009)

Zhu, Jun

With the increasing capacity of today's integrated circuits, a number ofheterogeneous  system-on-chip (SoC)  architectures  in embedded  systemshave been proposed. In order to achieve energy and...

Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Human Liver (2008)

Eric E. Schadt, Cliona Molony, Eugene Chudin, Ke Hao, Xia Yang, Pek Y. Lum, ...

Genetic variants that are associated with common human diseases do not lead directly to disease, but instead act on intermediate, molecular phenotypes that in turn induce changes in higher-order...

ABSTRACT Webpage Understanding: an Integrated Approach (2008)

Jun Zhu, Bo Zhang, Zaiqing Nie

Recent work has shown the effectiveness of leveraging layout and tag-tree structure for segmenting webpages and labeling HTML elements. However, how to effectively segment and label the text contents...

Dynamic Hierarchical Markov Random Fields and their Application to Web Data Extraction (2008)

Jun Zhu, Zaiqing Nie, Bo Zhang, Ji-rong Wen

Hierarchical models have been extensively studied in various domains. However, existing models assume fixed model structures or incorporate structural uncertainty generatively. In this paper, we...

Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease (2008)

Emilsson, Valur, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Zhang, Bin, Leonardson, Amy S, Zink, Florian, Zhu, Jun, ...

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Nonparametric Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Programmed Cell Death (2008)

Cui, Yuehua, Wu, Rongling, Casella, George, Zhu, Jun

The development of an organism represents a complex dynamic process, which is controlled by a network of genes and multiple environmental factors. Programmed cell death (PCD), a physiological cell...

Nonparametric Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Programmed Cell Death (2008)

Cui, Yuehua, Wu, Rongling, Casella, George, Zhu, Jun

The development of an organism represents a complex dynamic process, which is controlled by a network of genes and multiple environmental factors. Programmed cell death (PCD), a physiological cell...

Nonparametric Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Programmed Cell Death (2008)

Cui, Yuehua, Wu, Rongling, Casella, George, Zhu, Jun

The development of an organism represents a complex dynamic process, which is controlled by a network of genes and multiple environmental factors. Programmed cell death (PCD), a physiological cell...

Nonparametric Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Programmed Cell Death (2008)

Cui, Yuehua, Wu, Rongling, Casella, George, Zhu, Jun

The development of an organism represents a complex dynamic process, which is controlled by a network of genes and multiple environmental factors. Programmed cell death (PCD), a physiological cell...

Single (2008)

Chris Conrad, Jun Zhu, Cintia Conrad, David Schoenfeld, À Zhide Fang, Martin Ingelsson, ...

molecule profiling of tau gene expression in Alzheimer’s disease

SDF to Synchronous Cross Domain Analysis in ForSyDe Stream Processing Framework (2008)

Jun Zhu, Axel Jantsch, Ingo S

Stream processing has been a very active field in parallel programming for its suitability to express the concurrent architecture in embedded systems. Caused by its concurrent reasoning features,...

3-Benzyl-1-butylimidazo[1,2-a]benzothieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine-2,5(1H,3H)-dione (2008)

Min-Hui Cao, Jun Zhu, De-Jiang Ni

In the crystal structure of the title compound, C23H21N3O2S, all ring atoms of the imidazo[1,2-a]benzothieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine system are essentially coplanar and the phenyl ring is twisted with...

A combinatorial approach to detecting gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in family studies. (2008)

Lou, Xiang-Yang, Chen, Guo-Bo, Yan, Lei, Ma, Jennie Z., Mangold, Jamie E., Zhu, Jun, ...

Widespread multifactor interactions present a significant challenge in determining risk factors of complex diseases. Several combinatorial approaches, such as the multifactor dimensionality reduction...

Maximum Entropy Discrimination Markov Networks (2008)

Jun Zhu, Eric Xing, Bo Zhang

Standard max-margin structured prediction methods concentrate directly on the inputoutput mapping, and the lack of an elegant probabilistic interpretation causes limitations. In this paper, we...

Effects of fondaparinux in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction not receiving reperfusion treatment (2008)

Oldgren, Jonas, Wallentin, Lars, Afzal, Rizwan, Bassand, Jean-Pierre, Budaj, Andrzej, Chrolavicius, Susan, ...

Aims At least one quarter of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients do not receive reperfusion therapy, and these patients are at high risk for new ischaemic events. We evaluated...

On Jones knot Invariants and Vassiliev Invariants (2007)

Jun Zhu

We show that the n-th derivative of a quantum group invariant, evaluated at 1, is a Vassiliev invariant while the derivative of the Jones polynomial, evaluated at a real number<Fnan> 6= 1, is...

Statistical power of phylo-HMM for evolutionarily conserved element detection (2007)

Fan, Xiaodan, Zhu, Jun, Schadt, Eric E, Liu, Jun S

Abstract Background An important goal of comparative genomics is the identification of functional elements through conservation analysis. Phylo-HMM was recently introduced to detect conserved...

Mapping the genetic architecture of complex traits in experimental populations (2007)

Yang, Jian, Zhu, Jun, Williams, Robert W.

Summary: Understanding how interactions among set of genes affect diverse phenotypes is having a greater impact on biomedical research, agriculture and evolutionary biology. Mapping and...

Increasing the Power to Detect Causal Associations by Combining Genotypic and Expression Data in Segregating Populations (2007)

Jun Zhu, Matthew C. Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman, Eric Minch, Pek Y. Lum, ...

To dissect common human diseases such as obesity and diabetes, a systematic approach is needed to study how genes interact with one another, and with genetic and environmental factors, to determine...

Increasing the Power to Detect Causal Associations among Genes and between Genes and Complex Traits by Combining Genotypic and Gene Expression Data in Segregating Populations (2007)

Jun Zhu, Matthew C. Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman, Eric Minch, Pek Y. Lum, ...

To dissect common human diseases like obesity and diabetes, a systematic approach is needed to study how genes interact with one another, and how genetic and environmental factors and interactions...

A generalized combinatorial approach for detecting gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions with application to nicotine dependence. (2007)

Lou, Xiang-Yang, Chen, Guo-Bo, Yan, Lei, Ma, Jennie Z., Zhu, Jun, Elston, Robert C., ...

The determination of gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions has long been one of the greatest challenges in genetics. The traditional methods are typically inadequate because of the...

BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central (2007)

Xiaodan Fan, Jun Zhu, Eric E Schadt, Jun S Liu

Research article Statistical power of phylo-HMM for evolutionarily conserved element detection

Deterministic Quantum Key Distribution Using Gaussian-Modulated Squeezed States (2006)

He, Guangqiang, Zhu, Jun, Zeng, Guihua

A continuous variable ping-pong scheme, which is utilized to generate deterministically private key, is proposed. The proposed scheme is implemented physically by using Gaussian-modulated squeezed...

Resampling methods for spatial regression models under a class of stochastic designs (2006)

Lahiri, S. N., Zhu, Jun

In this paper we consider the problem of bootstrapping a class of spatial regression models when the sampling sites are generated by a (possibly nonuniform) stochastic design and are irregularly...

Resampling methods for spatial regression models under a class of stochastic designs (2006)

Lahiri, S. N., Zhu, Jun

In this paper we consider the problem of bootstrapping a class of spatial regression models when the sampling sites are generated by a (possibly nonuniform) stochastic design and are irregularly...

QTL ANALYSIS FOR YIELD COMPONENTS IN RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) UNDER DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS (2006)

Mebrouk Benmoussa, Abderrahmane Achouch, Jun Zhu

Quantitative trait loci (QTL) for yield components were identified based on an RFLP map from a double haploid population. The 123 DH lines with their parents IR64 and Azucena were evaluated in the...

Indirect removal of SU-8 photoresist using PDMS technique (2006)

Li, Jianhua, Chen, Di, Zhang, Jinya, Liu, Jingquan, Zhu, Jun

SU-8 photoresist shows superior images for thick film lithography and has been utilized as an electroplating mold. However, crosslinked SU-8 is difficult to remove reliably from high-aspect-ratio...

Improvement of mapping accuracy by unifying linkage and association analysis. (2006)

Lou, Xiang-Yang, Ma, Jennie Z., Yang, Mark C. K., Zhu, Jun, Liu, Peng-Yuan, Deng, Hong-Wen, ...

It is well known that pedigree/family data record information on the coexistence in founder haplotypes of alleles at nearby loci and the cotransmission from parent to offspring that reveal different,...

Functional mapping for genetic control of programmed cell death (2006)

Yuehua Cui, Jun Zhu, Rongling Wu, R. Yang, H. Gao, X. Wang, ...

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Simultaneous record detection and attribute labeling in web data extraction (2006)

Jun Zhu, Zaiqing Nie, Ji-rong Wen

Recent work has shown the feasibility and promise of templateindependent Web data extraction. However, existing approaches use decoupled strategies – attempting to do data record detection and...

Genome-wide Investigation of Intron Length Polymorphisms and Their Potential as Molecular Markers in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) (2006)

Wang, Xusheng, Zhao, Xiangqian, Zhu, Jun, Wu, Weiren

Intron length polymorphisms (ILPs) have been used as genetic markers in some studies. However, a systematic investigation and large-scale exploitation of ILP markers has not been reported. In this...

SCALE-DEPENDENT SUMMER RESOURCE SELECTION BY REINTRODUCED ELK IN WISCONSIN, USA (2005)

DEAN P. ANDERSON, MONICA G. TURNER, JAMES D. FORESTER, JUN ZHU, MARK S. BOYCE, HAWTHORNE BEYER, ...

Identifying how habitat use is influenced by environmental heterogeneity at different scales is central to understanding ungulate population dynamics on complex landscapes. We used resource selection...

The role of Lake Dongting in regulating the sediment budget of the Yangtze River (2005)

Shi-bao Dai, Shi-lun Yang, Jun Zhu, Ang Gao, Peng Li

Lake Dongting, the second largest freshwater lake in China and located in the middle reaches of the River Yangtze catchment, was formed at the beginning of the Holocene period by sea level rise and...

The role of Lake Dongting in regulating the sediment budget of the Yangtze River (2005)

Dai, Shi-Bao, Yang, Shi-Lun, Zhu, Jun, Gao, Ang, Li, Peng

Lake Dongting, the second largest freshwater lake in China and located in the middle reaches of the River Yangtze catchment, was formed at the beginning of the Holocene period by sea level rise and...

The role of Lake Dongting in regulating the sediment budget of the Yangtze River (2005)

Dai, Shi-Bao, Yang, Shi-Lun, Zhu, Jun, Gao, Ang, Li, Peng

Lake Dongting, the second largest freshwater lake in China and located in the middle reaches of the River Yangtze catchment, was formed at the beginning of the Holocene period by sea level rise and...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun, Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun, Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun, Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun, Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun, Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Analysis of transmission system faults in the phase domain (2004)

Zhu, Jun

In order to maintain a continuous power suppply, nowadays relays in transmission systems are required to be able to deal with complicated faults involving non-conventional connections, which poses a...

Business Process Modeling in Abstract Logic Tree (2004)

Ying Liu, Jian Wang, Jun Zhu, Haiqi Liang, Zhong Tian, Wei Sun, ...

been issued as a Research Report for early dissemination of its contents. In view of the transfer of copyright to the outside publisher, its distribution outside of IBM prior to publication should be...

Anisotropy interchange and low-density susceptibility in a variable density two dimensional electron system (2003)

Zhu, Jun

This dissertation focuses on the effect of many-particle interactions in two dimensional electron systems (2DES). We explore several novel phenomena over a wide range of densities in a variable...

Dry powder mass flow control of a vibratory micro-L-Valve / (2003)

Zhu, Jun.

"Mémoire présenté en vue de l'obtention du diplôme de Maîtrise ès sciences appliquées (génie mécanique)"

Modeling Spatial-Temporal Binary Data Using Markov Random Fields (2003)

Jun Zhu, Chi-tsung Wu, Hsin-cheng Huang

An autologistic regression model consists of a linear regression of a response variable on explanatory variables and an auto-regression on responses at neighboring locations on a lattice.

Dielectric and loss properties of MnZn ferrites at high frequency / (2002)

Zhu, Jun.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2002.

A case-addition policy for case-base maintenance (2001)

Qiang Yang, Jun Zhu

A major problem in many practical applications of case-based reasoning (CBR) and knowledge reuse is how to keep the case bases concise and complete. To solve this problem requires repeated...

Matlab toolbox for signal exponential decomposition / (2001)

Zhu, Jun.

Thesis (M.Eng.) -- McMaster University, 2001.

PWM converter generated harmonic current propagation, meeting the IEEE 519 standard / (2000)

Zhu, Jun.

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, 2000.

Single Molecule Profiling of Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing (2000)

R Eports, R. A. Reenan, C. J. Hanrahan, B. Ganetzky, P. J. Aruscavage, B. L. Bass, ...

Alternative pre-messenger RNA splicing is an important mechanism for generating protein diversity and may explain in part how mammalian complexity arises from a surprisingly small complement of...

Remembering to Add: Competence-preserving Case-Addition Policies for Case-Base Maintenance (1998)

Jun Zhu, Qiang Yang

Case-base maintenance is gaining increasing recognition in research and the practical applications of case-based reasoning (CBR). This intense interest is highlighted by Smyth and Keane's...

On Singular Braids (1996)

Jun Zhu

In Vassiliev theory, there is a natural monoid homomorphism from n-strand singular braids to the group algebra of n-strand braid group. J. Birman conjectured that this monoid homomorphism is...

On Jones knot variants and Vassiliev invariants [microform]. (1995)

Zhu, Jun.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of British Columbia, 1995.

Petrogenesis of late Cenozoic volcanic rocks from the Raton-Clayton volcanic field, northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado (1995)

Zhu, Jun, Zhu, Jun

Late Cenozoic volcanism on the Great Plains in northeastern New Mexico was closely related to the tectonic and thermal deformation along the transitional zone between the Colorado Plateau and...

Arsenic-induced PML targeting onto nuclear bodies: Implications for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia

Zhu, Jun, Koken, Marcel H. M., Quignon, Frédérique, Chelbi-Alix, Mounira K., Degos, Laurent, Wang, Zhen Yi, ...

Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is associated with the t(15;17) translocation, which generates a PML/RARα fusion protein between PML, a growth suppressor localized on nuclear matrix-associated...

Autoinducer binding by the quorum-sensing regulator TraR increases affinity for target promoters in vitro and decreases TraR turnover rates in whole cells

Zhu, Jun, Winans, Stephen C.

TraR is an Agrobacterium transcriptional regulator whose activity requires the pheromone N-3-oxooctanoyl-l-homoserine lactone. TraR was purified as a complex with the pheromone and contained one...

Retinoic acid induces proteasome-dependent degradation of retinoic acid receptor α (RARα) and oncogenic RARα fusion proteins

Zhu, Jun, Gianni, Maurizio, Kopf, Eliezer, Honoré, Nicole, Chelbi-Alix, Mounira, Koken, Marcel, ...

Analyzing the pathways by which retinoic acid (RA) induces promyelocytic leukemia/retinoic acid receptor α (PML/RARα) catabolism in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), we found that, in addition to...

The quorum-sensing transcriptional regulator TraR requires its cognate signaling ligand for protein folding, protease resistance, and dimerization

Zhu, Jun, Winans, Stephen C.

Complexes between the quorum-sensing regulator TraR and its inducing ligand autoinducer (AAI) are soluble in Escherichia coli, whereas apo-TraR is almost completely insoluble. Here we show that the...

The Right End of the vir Region of an Octopine-Type Ti Plasmid Contains Four New Members of the vir Regulon That Are Not Essential for Pathogenesis

Kalogeraki, Virginia S., Zhu, Jun, Stryker, Joel L., Winans, Stephen C.

We sequenced the virD-virE, virE-virF, and virF–T-DNA intergenic regions of an octopine Ti plasmid. Four newly described genes were induced by the vir gene inducer acetosyringone, two of which are...

Analogs of the Autoinducer 3-Oxooctanoyl-Homoserine Lactone Strongly Inhibit Activity of the TraR Protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Zhu, Jun, Beaber, John W., Moré, Margret I., Fuqua, Clay, Eberhard, Anatol, Winans, Stephen C.

The TraR and TraI proteins of Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediate cell-density-dependent expression of the Ti plasmid tra regulon. TraI synthesizes the autoinducer pheromone...

Quorum-sensing regulators control virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae

Zhu, Jun, Miller, Melissa B., Vance, Russell E., Dziejman, Michelle, Bassler, Bonnie L., Mekalanos, John J.

The production of virulence factors including cholera toxin and the toxin-coregulated pilus in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is strongly influenced by environmental conditions. The...

Nuclear Export and Retention Signals in the RS Domain of SR Proteins

Cazalla, Demian, Zhu, Jun, Manche, Lisa, Huber, Elisabeth, Krainer, Adrian R., Cáceres, Javier F.

Splicing factors of the SR protein family share a modular structure consisting of one or two RNA recognition motifs (RRMs) and a C-terminal RS domain rich in arginine and serine residues. The RS...

ToxR regulon of Vibrio cholerae and its expression in vibrios shed by cholera patients

Bina, James, Zhu, Jun, Dziejman, Michelle, Faruque, Shah, Calderwood, Stephen, Mekalanos, John

Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae cause cholera, a severe diarrheal disease responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Two determinants, cholera enterotoxin (CT) and toxin coregulated...

A Constitutively Active Variant of the Quorum-Sensing Regulator LuxO Affects Protease Production and Biofilm Formation in Vibrio cholerae

Vance, Russell E., Zhu, Jun, Mekalanos, John J.

Vibrio cholerae normally inhabits aquatic habitats but can cause a severe diarrheal illness in humans. Its arsenal of virulence factors includes a secreted hemagglutinin (HA) protease. An HA...

Examination of Diverse Toxin-Coregulated Pilus-Positive Vibrio cholerae Strains Fails To Demonstrate Evidence for Vibrio Pathogenicity Island Phage

Faruque, Shah M., Zhu, Jun, Kamruzzaman, M., Mekalanos, John J.

The major virulence factors of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae are cholera toxin, which is encoded by a lysogenic filamentous bacteriophage (CTXΦ), and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), an essential...

Agrobacterium Bioassay Strain for Ultrasensitive Detection of N-Acylhomoserine Lactone-Type Quorum-Sensing Molecules: Detection of Autoinducers in Mesorhizobium huakuii

Zhu, Jun, Chai, Yunrong, Zhong, Zengtao, Li, Shunpeng, Winans, Stephen C.

An ultrasensitive bioassay system for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) was constructed in Agrobacterium tumefaciens by using the T7 expression system to overproduce the AHL receptor...

Significance of 14-3-3 Self-Dimerization for Phosphorylation-dependent Target Binding

Shen, Ying H., Godlewski, Jakub, Bronisz, Agnieszka, Zhu, Jun, Comb, Michael J., Avruch, Joseph, ...

14-3-3 proteins via binding serine/threonine-phosphorylated proteins regulate diverse intracellular processes in all eukaryotic organisms. Here, we examine the role of 14-3-3 self-dimerization in...

Pre-mRNA splicing in the absence of an SR protein RS domain

Zhu, Jun, Krainer, Adrian R.

SR proteins are essential pre-mRNA splicing factors that act at the earliest stages of splice-site recognition and spliceosome assembly, as well as later in the splicing pathway. SR proteins consist...

The HcrVf2 gene from a wild apple confers scab resistance to a transgenic cultivated variety

Belfanti, Enrico, Silfverberg-Dilworth, Eve, Tartarini, Stefano, Patocchi, Andrea, Barbieri, Massimo, Zhu, Jun, ...

The Vf gene from the wild species Malus floribunda 821 is the most studied apple scab resistance gene. Several molecular markers mapping around this gene were the starting point for a positional...

Bovine Herpesvirus Tegument Protein VP22 Enhances Thymidine Kinase/Ganciclovir Suicide Gene Therapy for Neuroblastomas Compared to Herpes Simplex Virus VP22

Qiu, Zhaohua, Harms, Jerome S., Zhu, Jun, Splitter, Gary A.

Herpesvirus tegument protein VP22 can enhance the effect of therapeutic proteins in gene therapy, such as thymidine kinase (tk) and p53; however, the mechanism is unclear or controversial. In this...

Identification of Raf-1 S471 as a Novel Phosphorylation Site Critical for Raf-1 and B-Raf Kinase Activities and for MEK Binding

Zhu, Jun, Balan, Vitaly, Bronisz, Agnieszka, Balan, Karina, Sun, Hengrui, Leicht, Deborah T., ...

The Ras-Raf-MAPK cascade is a key growth-signaling pathway and its uncontrolled activation results in cell transformation. Although the general features of the signal transmission along the cascade...

Identification of candidate genes for drought stress tolerance in rice by the integration of a genetic (QTL) map with the rice genome physical map*

Wang, Xu-sheng, Zhu, Jun, Mansueto, Locedie, Bruskiewich, Richard

Genetic improvement for drought stress tolerance in rice involves the quantitative nature of the trait, which reflects the additive effects of several genetic loci throughout the genome. Yield...

Identification of Novel In Vivo Raf-1 Phosphorylation Sites Mediating Positive Feedback Raf-1 Regulation by Extracellular Signal-regulated Kinase

Balan, Vitaly, Leicht, Deborah T., Zhu, Jun, Balan, Karina, Kaplun, Alexander, Singh-Gupta, Vinita, ...

The Ras–Raf–mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade is a key growth-signaling pathway, which uncontrolled activation results in transformation. Although the exact mechanisms underlying Raf-1...

Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity of Quorum-Sensing Systems in Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholerae

Joelsson, Adam, Liu, Zhi, Zhu, Jun

Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of cholera, a severe and devastating diarrheal disease. V. cholerae lives naturally in various aquatic habitats during interepidemic periods. Recent studies...

A LuxR/LuxI-Type Quorum-Sensing System in a Plant Bacterium, Mesorhizobium tianshanense, Controls Symbiotic Nodulation

Zheng, Huiming, Zhong, Zengtao, Lai, Xin, Chen, Wen-Xin, Li, Shunpeng, Zhu, Jun

The ability of rhizobia to symbiotically fix nitrogen from the atmosphere when forming nodules on their plant hosts requires various signal transduction pathways. LuxR-LuxI-type quorum-sensing...

The Transcriptional Regulator VqmA Increases Expression of the Quorum-Sensing Activator HapR in Vibrio cholerae

Liu, Zhi, Hsiao, Ansel, Joelsson, Adam, Zhu, Jun

Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera. A number of environmental stimuli regulate virulence gene expression in V. cholerae, including quorum-sensing signals....

A robust statistical procedure to discover expression biomarkers using microarray genomic expression data*

Zou, Yang-yun, Yang, Jian, Zhu, Jun

Microarray has become increasingly popular biotechnology in biological and medical researches, and has been widely applied in classification of treatment subtypes using expression patterns of...

A Unified Statistical Model for Functional Mapping of Environment-Dependent Genetic Expression and Genotype × Environment Interactions for Ontogenetic Development

Zhao, Wei, Zhu, Jun, Gallo-Meagher, Maria, Wu, Rongling

The effects of quantitative trait loci (QTL) on phenotypic development may depend on the environment (QTL × environment interaction), other QTL (genetic epistasis), or both. In this article, we...

Improvement of Mapping Accuracy by Unifying Linkage and Association Analysis

Lou, Xiang-Yang, Ma, Jennie Z., Yang, Mark C. K., Zhu, Jun, Liu, Peng-Yuan, Deng, Hong-Wen, ...

It is well known that pedigree/family data record information on the coexistence in founder haplotypes of alleles at nearby loci and the cotransmission from parent to offspring that reveal different,...

A Vibrio cholerae protease needed for killing of Caenorhabditis elegans has a role in protection from natural predator grazing

Vaitkevicius, Karolis, Lindmark, Barbro, Ou, Gangwei, Song, Tianyan, Toma, Claudia, Iwanaga, Masaaki, ...

Vibrio cholerae is the causal bacterium of the diarrheal disease cholera, and its growth and survival are thought to be curtailed by bacteriovorous predators, e.g., ciliates and flagellates. We...

Dimerization-induced corepressor binding and relaxed DNA-binding specificity are critical for PML/RARA-induced immortalization

Zhou, Jun, Pérès, Laurent, Honoré, Nicole, Nasr, Rihab, Zhu, Jun, De Thé, Hugues

The pathogenesis of acute promyelocytic leukemia involves the transcriptional repression of master genes of myeloid differentiation by the promyelocytic leukemia–retinoic acid receptor α...

Arsenic-induced PML targeting onto nuclear bodies: Implications for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia

Zhu, Jun, Koken, Marcel H. M., Quignon, Frédérique, Chelbi-Alix, Mounira K., Degos, Laurent, Wang, Zhen Yi, ...

Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is associated with the t(15;17) translocation, which generates a PML/RARα fusion protein between PML, a growth suppressor localized on nuclear matrix-associated...

Autoinducer binding by the quorum-sensing regulator TraR increases affinity for target promoters in vitro and decreases TraR turnover rates in whole cells

Zhu, Jun, Winans, Stephen C.

TraR is an Agrobacterium transcriptional regulator whose activity requires the pheromone N-3-oxooctanoyl-l-homoserine lactone. TraR was purified as a complex with the pheromone and contained one...

Retinoic acid induces proteasome-dependent degradation of retinoic acid receptor α (RARα) and oncogenic RARα fusion proteins

Zhu, Jun, Gianni, Maurizio, Kopf, Eliezer, Honoré, Nicole, Chelbi-Alix, Mounira, Koken, Marcel, ...

Analyzing the pathways by which retinoic acid (RA) induces promyelocytic leukemia/retinoic acid receptor α (PML/RARα) catabolism in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), we found that, in addition to...

The quorum-sensing transcriptional regulator TraR requires its cognate signaling ligand for protein folding, protease resistance, and dimerization

Zhu, Jun, Winans, Stephen C.

Complexes between the quorum-sensing regulator TraR and its inducing ligand autoinducer (AAI) are soluble in Escherichia coli, whereas apo-TraR is almost completely insoluble. Here we show that the...

The Right End of the vir Region of an Octopine-Type Ti Plasmid Contains Four New Members of the vir Regulon That Are Not Essential for Pathogenesis

Kalogeraki, Virginia S., Zhu, Jun, Stryker, Joel L., Winans, Stephen C.

We sequenced the virD-virE, virE-virF, and virF–T-DNA intergenic regions of an octopine Ti plasmid. Four newly described genes were induced by the vir gene inducer acetosyringone, two of which are...

Analogs of the Autoinducer 3-Oxooctanoyl-Homoserine Lactone Strongly Inhibit Activity of the TraR Protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Zhu, Jun, Beaber, John W., Moré, Margret I., Fuqua, Clay, Eberhard, Anatol, Winans, Stephen C.

The TraR and TraI proteins of Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediate cell-density-dependent expression of the Ti plasmid tra regulon. TraI synthesizes the autoinducer pheromone...

Quorum-sensing regulators control virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae

Zhu, Jun, Miller, Melissa B., Vance, Russell E., Dziejman, Michelle, Bassler, Bonnie L., Mekalanos, John J.

The production of virulence factors including cholera toxin and the toxin-coregulated pilus in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is strongly influenced by environmental conditions. The...

Nuclear Export and Retention Signals in the RS Domain of SR Proteins

Cazalla, Demian, Zhu, Jun, Manche, Lisa, Huber, Elisabeth, Krainer, Adrian R., Cáceres, Javier F.

Splicing factors of the SR protein family share a modular structure consisting of one or two RNA recognition motifs (RRMs) and a C-terminal RS domain rich in arginine and serine residues. The RS...

ToxR regulon of Vibrio cholerae and its expression in vibrios shed by cholera patients

Bina, James, Zhu, Jun, Dziejman, Michelle, Faruque, Shah, Calderwood, Stephen, Mekalanos, John

Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae cause cholera, a severe diarrheal disease responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Two determinants, cholera enterotoxin (CT) and toxin coregulated...

A Constitutively Active Variant of the Quorum-Sensing Regulator LuxO Affects Protease Production and Biofilm Formation in Vibrio cholerae

Vance, Russell E., Zhu, Jun, Mekalanos, John J.

Vibrio cholerae normally inhabits aquatic habitats but can cause a severe diarrheal illness in humans. Its arsenal of virulence factors includes a secreted hemagglutinin (HA) protease. An HA...

Examination of Diverse Toxin-Coregulated Pilus-Positive Vibrio cholerae Strains Fails To Demonstrate Evidence for Vibrio Pathogenicity Island Phage

Faruque, Shah M., Zhu, Jun, Kamruzzaman, M., Mekalanos, John J.

The major virulence factors of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae are cholera toxin, which is encoded by a lysogenic filamentous bacteriophage (CTXΦ), and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), an essential...

Agrobacterium Bioassay Strain for Ultrasensitive Detection of N-Acylhomoserine Lactone-Type Quorum-Sensing Molecules: Detection of Autoinducers in Mesorhizobium huakuii

Zhu, Jun, Chai, Yunrong, Zhong, Zengtao, Li, Shunpeng, Winans, Stephen C.

An ultrasensitive bioassay system for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) was constructed in Agrobacterium tumefaciens by using the T7 expression system to overproduce the AHL receptor...

Significance of 14-3-3 Self-Dimerization for Phosphorylation-dependent Target Binding

Shen, Ying H., Godlewski, Jakub, Bronisz, Agnieszka, Zhu, Jun, Comb, Michael J., Avruch, Joseph, ...

14-3-3 proteins via binding serine/threonine-phosphorylated proteins regulate diverse intracellular processes in all eukaryotic organisms. Here, we examine the role of 14-3-3 self-dimerization in...

Pre-mRNA splicing in the absence of an SR protein RS domain

Zhu, Jun, Krainer, Adrian R.

SR proteins are essential pre-mRNA splicing factors that act at the earliest stages of splice-site recognition and spliceosome assembly, as well as later in the splicing pathway. SR proteins consist...

The HcrVf2 gene from a wild apple confers scab resistance to a transgenic cultivated variety

Belfanti, Enrico, Silfverberg-Dilworth, Eve, Tartarini, Stefano, Patocchi, Andrea, Barbieri, Massimo, Zhu, Jun, ...

The Vf gene from the wild species Malus floribunda 821 is the most studied apple scab resistance gene. Several molecular markers mapping around this gene were the starting point for a positional...

Bovine Herpesvirus Tegument Protein VP22 Enhances Thymidine Kinase/Ganciclovir Suicide Gene Therapy for Neuroblastomas Compared to Herpes Simplex Virus VP22

Qiu, Zhaohua, Harms, Jerome S., Zhu, Jun, Splitter, Gary A.

Herpesvirus tegument protein VP22 can enhance the effect of therapeutic proteins in gene therapy, such as thymidine kinase (tk) and p53; however, the mechanism is unclear or controversial. In this...

Identification of Raf-1 S471 as a Novel Phosphorylation Site Critical for Raf-1 and B-Raf Kinase Activities and for MEK Binding

Zhu, Jun, Balan, Vitaly, Bronisz, Agnieszka, Balan, Karina, Sun, Hengrui, Leicht, Deborah T., ...

The Ras-Raf-MAPK cascade is a key growth-signaling pathway and its uncontrolled activation results in cell transformation. Although the general features of the signal transmission along the cascade...

Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity of Quorum-Sensing Systems in Clinical and Environmental Isolates of Vibrio cholerae

Joelsson, Adam, Liu, Zhi, Zhu, Jun

Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of cholera, a severe and devastating diarrheal disease. V. cholerae lives naturally in various aquatic habitats during interepidemic periods. Recent studies...

Identification of Novel In Vivo Raf-1 Phosphorylation Sites Mediating Positive Feedback Raf-1 Regulation by Extracellular Signal-regulated Kinase

Balan, Vitaly, Leicht, Deborah T., Zhu, Jun, Balan, Karina, Kaplun, Alexander, Singh-Gupta, Vinita, ...

The Ras–Raf–mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade is a key growth-signaling pathway, which uncontrolled activation results in transformation. Although the exact mechanisms underlying Raf-1...

Identification of candidate genes for drought stress tolerance in rice by the integration of a genetic (QTL) map with the rice genome physical map*

Wang, Xu-sheng, Zhu, Jun, Mansueto, Locedie, Bruskiewich, Richard

Genetic improvement for drought stress tolerance in rice involves the quantitative nature of the trait, which reflects the additive effects of several genetic loci throughout the genome. Yield...

A LuxR/LuxI-Type Quorum-Sensing System in a Plant Bacterium, Mesorhizobium tianshanense, Controls Symbiotic Nodulation

Zheng, Huiming, Zhong, Zengtao, Lai, Xin, Chen, Wen-Xin, Li, Shunpeng, Zhu, Jun

The ability of rhizobia to symbiotically fix nitrogen from the atmosphere when forming nodules on their plant hosts requires various signal transduction pathways. LuxR-LuxI-type quorum-sensing...

The Transcriptional Regulator VqmA Increases Expression of the Quorum-Sensing Activator HapR in Vibrio cholerae

Liu, Zhi, Hsiao, Ansel, Joelsson, Adam, Zhu, Jun

Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera. A number of environmental stimuli regulate virulence gene expression in V. cholerae, including quorum-sensing signals....

A Unified Statistical Model for Functional Mapping of Environment-Dependent Genetic Expression and Genotype × Environment Interactions for Ontogenetic Development

Zhao, Wei, Zhu, Jun, Gallo-Meagher, Maria, Wu, Rongling

The effects of quantitative trait loci (QTL) on phenotypic development may depend on the environment (QTL × environment interaction), other QTL (genetic epistasis), or both. In this article, we...

Improvement of Mapping Accuracy by Unifying Linkage and Association Analysis

Lou, Xiang-Yang, Ma, Jennie Z., Yang, Mark C. K., Zhu, Jun, Liu, Peng-Yuan, Deng, Hong-Wen, ...

It is well known that pedigree/family data record information on the coexistence in founder haplotypes of alleles at nearby loci and the cotransmission from parent to offspring that reveal different,...

Dimerization-induced corepressor binding and relaxed DNA-binding specificity are critical for PML/RARA-induced immortalization

Zhou, Jun, Pérès, Laurent, Honoré, Nicole, Nasr, Rihab, Zhu, Jun, De Thé, Hugues

The pathogenesis of acute promyelocytic leukemia involves the transcriptional repression of master genes of myeloid differentiation by the promyelocytic leukemia–retinoic acid receptor α...

A Vibrio cholerae protease needed for killing of Caenorhabditis elegans has a role in protection from natural predator grazing

Vaitkevicius, Karolis, Lindmark, Barbro, Ou, Gangwei, Song, Tianyan, Toma, Claudia, Iwanaga, Masaaki, ...

Vibrio cholerae is the causal bacterium of the diarrheal disease cholera, and its growth and survival are thought to be curtailed by bacteriovorous predators, e.g., ciliates and flagellates. We...

A robust statistical procedure to discover expression biomarkers using microarray genomic expression data*

Zou, Yang-yun, Yang, Jian, Zhu, Jun

Microarray has become increasingly popular biotechnology in biological and medical researches, and has been widely applied in classification of treatment subtypes using expression patterns of...

On the Generalized Poisson Regression Mixture Model for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci With Count Data

Cui, Yuehua, Kim, Dong-Yun, Zhu, Jun

Statistical methods for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been extensively studied. While most existing methods assume normal distribution of the phenotype, the normality assumption could be...

Vibrio cholerae virulence regulator-coordinated evasion of host immunity

Hsiao, Ansel, Liu, Zhi, Joelsson, Adam, Zhu, Jun

To successfully propagate and cause disease, pathogenic bacteria must modulate their transcriptional activities in response to pressures exerted by the host immune system, including secreted...

Temporal Quorum-Sensing Induction Regulates Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Architecture▿

Liu, Zhi, Stirling, Fiona R., Zhu, Jun

Vibrio cholerae, the pathogen that causes cholera, also survives in aqueous reservoirs, probably in the form of biofilms. Quorum sensing negatively regulates V. cholerae biofilm formation through...

Increasing the Power to Detect Causal Associations by Combining Genotypic and Expression Data in Segregating Populations

Zhu, Jun, Wiener, Matthew C, Zhang, Chunsheng, Fridman, Arthur, Minch, Eric, Lum, Pek Y, ...

To dissect common human diseases such as obesity and diabetes, a systematic approach is needed to study how genes interact with one another, and with genetic and environmental factors, to determine...

Genetic Mapping of Developmental Instability: Design, Model and Algorithm

Wu, Jiasheng, Zhang, Bo, Cui, Yuehua, Zhao, Wei, Xu, Li'an, Huang, Minren, ...

Developmental instability or noise, defined as the phenotypic imprecision of an organism in the face of internal or external stochastic disturbances, has been thought to play an important role in...

Continuous time modelling of dynamical spatial lattice data observed at sparsely distributed times

Jakob G. Rasmussen, Jesper Møller, Brian H. Aukema, Kenneth F. Raffa, Jun Zhu

We consider statistical and computational aspects of simulation-based Bayesian inference for a spatial-temporal model based on a multivariate point process which is only observed at sparsely...

Quorum Sensing Enhances the Stress Response in Vibrio cholerae▿

Joelsson, Adam, Kan, Biao, Zhu, Jun

Vibrio cholerae lives in aquatic environments and causes cholera. Here, we show that quorum sensing enhances V. cholerae viability under certain stress conditions by upregulating the expression of...

Inverse agonism and neutral antagonism at a constitutively active alpha-1a adrenoceptor

Zhu, Jun, Taniguchi, Takanobu, Takauji, Rumiko, Suzuki, Fumiko, Tanaka, Takashi, Muramatsu, Ikunobu

We have studied the antagonist action of prazosin and KMD-3213 in a constitutively active mutant of the human alpha-1a adrenoceptor in which Ala271 was substituted to Thr and was expressed in CHO...

In Vivo Activation of cAMP Signaling Induces Growth Arrest and Differentiation in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

Guillemin, Marie-Claude, Raffoux, Emmanuel, Vitoux, Dominique, Kogan, Scott, Soilihi, Hassane, Lallemand-Breitenbach, Valérie, ...

Differentiation therapy for acute myeloid leukemia uses transcriptional modulators to reprogram cancer cells. The most relevant clinical example is acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), which responds...

Role of Promyelocytic Leukemia (Pml) Sumolation in Nuclear Body Formation, 11s Proteasome Recruitment, and as2O3-Induced Pml or Pml/Retinoic Acid Receptor α Degradation

Lallemand-Breitenbach, Valérie, Zhu, Jun, Puvion, Francine, Koken, Marcel, Honoré, Nicole, Doubeikovsky, Alexandre, ...

Promyelocytic leukemia (PML) is the organizer of nuclear matrix domains, PML nuclear bodies (NBs), with a proposed role in apoptosis control. In acute promyelocytic leukemia, PML/retinoic acid...

Spatial Regression Models for Demographic Analysis

Guangqing Chi, Jun Zhu

Spatial regression, Spatial data analysis, Spatial weight matrix, Spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity, Spatial demographic analysis,

Nonparametric Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci Underlying Programmed Cell Death

Yuehua Cui, Rongling Wu, George Casella, Jun Zhu

The development of an organism represents a complex dynamic process, which is controlled by a network of genes and multiple environmental factors. Programmed cell death (PCD), a physiological cell...

Mapping Interspecific Genetic Architecture in a Host–Parasite Interaction System

Yang, Jian, Wu, Weiren, Zhu, Jun

Under a hypothesis that the host–parasite interaction system is governed by genome-for-genome interaction, we propose a genetic model that integrates genetic information from both the host and...

Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Human Liver

Schadt, Eric E, Molony, Cliona, Chudin, Eugene, Hao, Ke, Yang, Xia, Lum, Pek Y, ...

Genetic variants that are associated with common human diseases do not lead directly to disease, but instead act on intermediate, molecular phenotypes that in turn induce changes in higher-order...

Bootstrapping the Empirical Distribution Function of a Spatial Process

Jun Zhu, S. Lahiri

functional central limit theorem, increasing domain asymptotics, infill asymptotics, resampling, α-mixing random field,

Effect of Liquid Swine Manure on Hatch and Viability of Heterodera glycines

Xiao, Jianli, Chen, Senyu, Zhu, Jun, Ruan, Weibin

Experiments were conducted in the laboratory and greenhouse to determine the effect of raw and anaerobically digested liquid swine manures on the hatch and viability of Heterodera glycines, the...

Influence of outliers on QTL mapping for complex traits*

Hayat, Yousaf, Yang, Jian, Xu, Hai-ming, Zhu, Jun

A method was proposed for the detection of outliers and influential observations in the framework of a mixed linear model, prior to the quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping analysis. We...

On the simulation size and the convergence of the Monte Carlo EM algorithm via likelihood-based distances

Eickhoff, Jens C., Zhu, Jun, Amemiya, Yasuo

When the conditional expectation of a complete-data likelihood in an EM algorithm is analytically intractable, Monte Carlo integration is often used to approximate the E-step. While the resulting...

Mucosal penetration primes Vibrio cholerae for host colonization by repressing quorum sensing

Liu, Zhi, Miyashiro, Tim, Tsou, Amy, Hsiao, Ansel, Goulian, Mark, Zhu, Jun

To successfully infect a host and cause the diarrheal disease cholera, Vibrio cholerae must penetrate the intestinal mucosal layer and express virulence genes. Previous studies have demonstrated that...

A new Vibrio cholerae sRNA modulates colonization and affects release of outer membrane vesicles

Song, Tianyan, Mika, Franziska, Lindmark, Barbro, Liu, Zhi, Schild, Stefan, Bishop, Anne, ...

We discovered a new small non-coding RNA (sRNA) gene, vrrA of Vibrio cholerae O1 strain A1552. A vrrA mutant overproduces OmpA porin, and we demonstrate that the 140 nt VrrA RNA represses ompA...

A Combinatorial Approach to Detecting Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions in Family Studies

Lou, Xiang-Yang, Chen, Guo-Bo, Yan, Lei, Ma, Jennie Z., Mangold, Jamie E., Zhu, Jun, ...

Widespread multifactor interactions present a significant challenge in determining risk factors of complex diseases. Several combinatorial approaches, such as the multifactor dimensionality reduction...

Regulatory targets of quorum sensing in Vibrio cholerae: evidence for two distinct HapR-binding motifs

Tsou, Amy M., Cai, Tao, Liu, Zhi, Zhu, Jun, Kulkarni, Rahul V.

The quorum-sensing pathway in Vibrio cholerae controls the expression of the master regulator HapR, which in turn regulates several important processes such as virulence factor production and biofilm...

RUPTURED POLLEN GRAIN1, a Member of the MtN3/saliva Gene Family, Is Crucial for Exine Pattern Formation and Cell Integrity of Microspores in Arabidopsis1[C][W][OA]

Guan, Yue-Feng, Huang, Xue-Yong, Zhu, Jun, Gao, Ju-Fang, Zhang, Hong-Xia, Yang, Zhong-Nan

During microsporogenesis, the microsporocyte (or microspore) plasma membrane plays multiple roles in pollen wall development, including callose secretion, primexine deposition, and exine pattern...

Coordinated regulation of virulence by quorum sensing and motility pathways during the initial stages of Vibrio cholerae infection

Tsou, Amy M, Frey, Erin M, Hsiao, Ansel, Liu, Zhi, Zhu, Jun

Pathogenic bacteria, such as Vibrio cholerae, must be capable of adapting to diverse living conditions, especially when transitioning from life in environmental reservoirs to life in a host. The...

F1C Fimbriae Play an Important Role in Biofilm Formation and Intestinal Colonization by the Escherichia coli Commensal Strain Nissle 1917▿

Lasaro, Melissa A., Salinger, Nina, Zhang, Jing, Wang, Yantao, Zhong, Zhengtao, Goulian, Mark, ...

Bacterial biofilm formation is thought to enhance survival in natural environments and during interaction with hosts. A robust colonizer of the human gastrointestinal tract, Escherichia coli Nissle...

The LuxR Family Quorum-Sensing Activator MrtR Requires Its Cognate Autoinducer for Dimerization and Activation but Not for Protein Folding▿ §

Yang, Menghua, Giel, Jennifer L., Cai, Tao, Zhong, Zengtao, Zhu, Jun

MrtR, a LuxR homolog in Mesorhizobium tianshanense, is important for symbiosis. We found that MrtR requires its cognate N-acylhomoserine lactone for forming dimers, binding to a single DNA site and...

Inhibitory effect of dimeric β peptide on the recurrence and metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma in vitro and in mice

Wang, Song-Mei, Zhu, Jun, Pan, Luan-Feng, Liu, Yin-Kun

AIM: To block the adhesion of tumor cells to the extracellular matrix, and prevent tumor metastasis and recurrence, the dimer of the β peptide (DLYYLMDLSYSMKGGDLYYLMDLSYSMK, β2) was designed and...

Multi-tissue coexpression networks reveal unexpected subnetworks associated with disease

Dobrin, Radu, Zhu, Jun, Molony, Cliona, Argman, Carmen, Parrish, Mark L, Carlson, Sonia, ...

Tissue-to-tissue coexpression networks between genes in hypothalamus, liver or adipose tissue enable identification of obesity-specific genes.

Role of Melanin Pigment in Expression of Vibrio cholerae Virulence Factors▿

Valeru, Soni Priya, Rompikuntal, Pramod Kumar, Ishikawa, Takahiko, Vaitkevicius, Karolis, Sjöling, Åsa, Dolganov, Nadia, ...

We identified the mutated gene locus in a pigment-overproducing Vibrio cholerae mutant of strain A1552. The deduced gene product is suggested to be an oxidoreductase based on partial homology to...

Molecular Identity and Functional Properties of a Novel T-Type Ca2+ Channel Cloned From the Sensory Epithelia of the Mouse Inner Ear

Nie, Liping, Zhu, Jun, Gratton, Michael Anne, Liao, Amy, Mu, Karen J., Nonner, Wolfgang, ...

The molecular identity of non-Cav1.3 channels in auditory and vestibular hair cells has remained obscure, yet the evidence in support of their roles to promote diverse Ca2+-dependent functions is...

Direct Regulation by the Vibrio cholerae Regulator ToxT To Modulate Colonization and Anticolonization Pilus Expression▿

Hsiao, Ansel, Xu, Xiao, Kan, Biao, Kulkarni, Rahul V., Zhu, Jun

The pathogen Vibrio cholerae uses a large number of coordinated transcriptional regulatory events to transition from its environmental reservoir to the host and establish itself at its preferred...

Introduction of unsaturation into theN-n-alkyl chain of the nicotinic receptor antagonists, NONI and NDNI: Effect on affinity and selectivity

Sumithran, Sangeetha P., Crooks, Peter A., Xu, Rui, Zhu, Jun, Deaciuc, Agripina G., Wilkins, Lincoln H., ...

N-n-Octylnicotinium iodide (NONI) andN-n-decylnicotinium iodide (NDNI) are selective nicotinic receptor (nAChR) antagonists mediating nicotine-evoked striatal dopamine (DA) release, and inhibiting...

Power analysis of principal components regression in genetic association studies*

Shen, Yan-feng, Zhu, Jun

Association analysis provides an opportunity to find genetic variants underlying complex traits. A principal components regression (PCR)-based approach was shown to outperform some competing...