Ping Xu

Publication List Details

Period

1987 - 9999

Number

161

Co-Authors

Gas Permeation of Aeromatic Polyimides. I. Relationship Between gas Permeabilities and Dielectric Constants. (9999)

Matsumoto, Kenji, Xu, Ping, Nishikimi, Tadashi

The permeability of 17 different 6FDA polyimides membranes to CO(2) and CH(4) has been determined at 25 degrees C and at an applied pressure of 4.87 atm. Dielectric constants strain of polyimides...

Gas Permeation of Aromatic Polyimides. II. Influence of Chemical Structure. (9999)

Matsumoto, Kenji, Xu, Ping

The permeability of CO(2) and CH(4) in 17 different types of poyimides membranes has been determined at 25 degrees C and at an applied pressure of 4.87 atm. The relationship between structures of...

On Regular Courant Algebroids (2009)

Chen, Zhuo, Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

For any regular Courant algebroid, we construct a characteristic class a la Chern-Weil. This intrinsic invariant of the Courant algebroid is a degree-3 class in its naive cohomology. When the Courant...

Momentum Maps and Morita Equivalence (2009)

The Erwin, Schrödinger International Boltzmanngasse, Ping Xu, Ping Xu

We introduce quasi-symplectic groupoids and explain their relation with momentum map theories. This approach enables us to unify into a single framework various momentum map theories, including the...

ESI (2009)

The Erwin, Schrödinger International Boltzmanngasse, Ping Xu, Ping Xu

Dedicated to Rencontres Mathématiques de Glanon on the occasion of her fifth birthday Dirac submanifolds are a natural generalization in the Poisson category for symplectic submanifolds of a...

Spectrum Bidding in Wireless Networks and Related (2009)

Xiang-yang Li, Ping Xu, Shaojie Tang, Xiaowen Chu

Abstract. In this paper, we study the spectrum assignment problem for wireless access networks. Opportunistic spectrum usage is a promising technology. However, it could suffer from the selfish...

Experimental Test of Bell inequalities with Six-Qubit Graph States (2009)

Gao, Wei-Bo, Yao, Xing-Can, Xu, Ping, Gühne, Otfried, Cabello, Adán, Lu, Chao-Yang, ...

We report on the experimental realization of two different Bell inequality tests based on six-qubit linear-type and Y-shape graph states. For each of these states, the Bell inequalities tested are...

Experimental Realization of a Controlled-NOT Gate with Four-Photon Six-Qubit Cluster States (2009)

Gao, Wei-Bo, Xu, Ping, Yao, Xing-Can, Gühne, Otfried, Cabello, Adán, Lu, Chao-Yang, ...

We experimentally demonstrate an optical controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate with arbitrary single inputs based on a 4-photon 6-qubit cluster state entangled both in polarization and spatial modes. We first...

Experimental demonstration of topological error correction (2009)

Gao, Wei-Bo, Fowler, Austin G., Raussendorf, Robert, Yao, Xing-Can, Lu, He, Xu, Ping, ...

Topological error correction--a novel method to actively correct errors based on cluster states with topological properties--has the highest order of tolerable error rates known to date (10^{-2})....

Geometry of Maurer-Cartan Elements on Complex Manifolds (2009)

Chen, Zhuo, Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

The semi-classical data attached to stacks of algebroids in the sense of Kashiwara and Kontsevich are Maurer-Cartan elements on complex manifolds, which we call extended Poisson structures as they...

Chromosomal Location of Traits Associated with Wheat Seedling Water and Phosphorus Use Efficiency under Different Water and Phosphorus Stresses (2009)

Hong-Xing Cao, Zheng-Bin Zhang, Cheng-Xu Sun, Hong-Bo Shao, Wei-Yi Song, Ping Xu

The objective of this study was to locate chromosomes for improving water and phosphorus-deficiency tolerance of wheat at the seedling stage. A set of Chinese Spring- Egyptian Red wheat substitution...

Hidden Information and Actions in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ABSTRACT (2008)

Xiang-yang Li, Yanwei Wu, Ping Xu, Guihai Chen, Mo Li

For multi-hop ad hoc networks formed by individually owned nodes, the endpoints can only observe whether or not the end-to-end transaction was successful or not, but not the individual actions of...

Experimental demonstration of a hyper-entangled ten-qubit Schr\"odinger cat state (2008)

Gao, Wei-Bo, Lu, Chao-Yang, Yao, Xing-Can, Xu, Ping, Gühne, Otfried, Goebel, Alexander, ...

Coherent manipulation of an increasing number of qubits for the generation of entangled states has been an important goal and benchmark in the emerging field of quantum information science. The...

Hamiltonian spaces for Manin pairs over manifolds (2008)

Ponte, David Iglesias, Xu, Ping

We introduce the notion of Hamiltonian spaces for Manin pairs over manifolds, using the so-called generalized Dirac structures. As an example, we describe Hamiltonian spaces of a quasi-Lie...

SUPERCONTIGS: A Contig Scaffolding Tool (2008)

Daniela Puiu, Ping Xu, J. M. Alves, Myrna Serrano, Gregory A. Buck

SUPERCONTIGS is a genome-finishing tool that orders, orients and groups contigs based on clone pair information and an alignment with a related genome. The program can be used in the genome finishing...

Integration of Holomorphic Lie Algebroids (2008)

Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

We prove that a holomorphic Lie algebroid is integrable if, and only if, its underlying real Lie algebroid is integrable. Thus the integrability criteria of Crainic-Fernandes do also apply in the...

Modular Classes of Loday Algebroids (2008)

Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

We introduce the concept of Loday algebroids, a generalization of Courant algebroids. We define the naive cohomology and modular class of a Loday algebroid, and we show that the modular class of the...

Structure dissection of human progranulin identifies well-folded granulin/epithelin modules with unique functional activities (2008)

Tolkatchev, Dmitri, Malik, Suneil, Vinogradova, Anna, Wang, Ping, Chen, Zhigang, Xu, Ping, ...

Progranulin is a secreted protein with important functions in several physiological and pathological processes, such as embryonic development, host defense, and wound repair. Autosomal dominant...

Holomorphic Poisson Manifolds and Holomorphic Lie Algebroids (2008)

Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Stiénon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

We study holomorphic Poisson manifolds and holomorphic Lie algebroids from the viewpoint of real Poisson geometry. We give a characterization of holomorphic Poisson structures in terms of the Poisson...

Cohomology of Lie 2-groups (2007)

Ginot, Gregory, Xu, Ping

In this paper we study the cohomology of (strict) Lie 2-groups. We obtain an explicit Bott-Shulman type map in the case of a Lie 2-group corresponding to the crossed module $A\to 1$. The cohomology...

Holomorphic Poisson Manifolds and Holomorphic Lie Algebroids (2007)

Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

We study holomorphic Poisson manifolds and holomorphic Lie algebroids from the viewpoint of real Poisson geometry. We give a characterization of holomorphic Poisson structures in terms of the Poisson...

Lectures on Poisson groupoids (2007)

Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

In these lecture notes, we give a quick account of the theory of Poisson groupoids and Lie bialgebroids. In particular, we discuss the universal lifting theorem and its applications including...

Twisted K-theory of differentiable stacks (2006)

Tu, Jean-Louis, Xu, Ping, Laurent-Gengoux, Camille

In this paper, we develop twisted $K$-theory for stacks, where the twisted class is given by an $S^1$-gerbe over the stack. General properties, including the Mayer-Vietoris property, Bott...

Differentiable Stacks and Gerbes (2006)

Behrend, Kai, Xu, Ping

We introduce differentiable stacks and explain the relationship with Lie groupoids. Then we study $S^1$-bundles and $S^1$-gerbes over differentiable stacks. In particular, we establish the...

The ring structure for equivariant twisted K-theory (2006)

Tu, Jean-Louis, Xu, Ping

We prove, under some mild conditions, that the equivariant twisted K-theory group of a crossed module admits a ring structure if the twisting 2-cocycle is 2-multiplicative. We also give an explicit...

Poisson Quasi-Nijenhuis Manifolds (2006)

Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

We introduce the notion of Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis manifolds generalizing the Poisson-Nijenhuis manifolds of Magri-Morosi. We also investigate the integration problem of Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis...

The Mandala Cultural Model can play a significant role in sustainable tourism: Interweaving Tibetan (2006)

Xu, Ping

The Mandala is the Buddhist cosmic model, showing the universe as centered around the BuddhaÕs dwelling place. Emphasizing the integrative relationship between architecture and landscape, and based...

Probing effects on protein charge state distributions by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry [electronic resource] / (2006)

Xu, Ping.

Summary: All mass spectrometers combine ion formation, mass analysis and ion detection. The first chapter of this thesis introduces the fundamentals of some common ionization techniques, especially...

Three-dimensional structure and ligand interactions of the low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase from Campylobacter jejuni (2006)

Tolkatchev, Dmitri, Shaykhutdinov, Rustem, Xu, Ping, Plamondon, Josée, Watson, David C., Young, N. Martin, ...

A putative low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase (LMW-PTP) was identified in the genome sequence of the bacterial pathogen, Campylobacter jejuni. This novel gene, cj1258, has sequence...

Non Abelian Differentiable Gerbes (2005)

Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

We study non-abelian differentiable gerbes over stacks using the theory of Lie groupoids. More precisely, we develop the theory of connections on Lie groupoid $G$-extensions, which we call...

Reduction of Generalized Complex Structures (2005)

Stienon, Mathieu, Xu, Ping

We study reduction of generalized complex structures. More precisely, we investigate the following question. Let $J$ be a generalized complex structure on a manifold $M$, which admits an action of a...

Universal lifting theorem and quasi-Poisson groupoids (2005)

Ponte, David Iglesias, Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Xu, Ping

We prove the universal lifting theorem: for an $\alpha$-simply connected and $\alpha$-connected Lie groupoid $\gm$ with Lie algebroid $A$, the graded Lie algebra of multi-differentials on $A$ is...

Chern character for twisted K-theory of orbifolds (2005)

Tu, Jean-Louis, Xu, Ping

For an orbifold X and $\alpha \in H^3(X, Z)$, we introduce the twisted cohomology $H^*_c(X, \alpha)$ and prove that the Connes-Chern character establishes an isomorphism between the twisted K-groups...

Polymerization of the SAM domain of MAPKKK Ste11 from the budding yeast: Implications for efficient signaling through the MAPK cascades (2005)

Bhattacharjya, Surajit, Xu, Ping, Chakrapani, Mukundan, Johnston, Linda, Ni, Feng

The sterile &agr;-motif (SAM) is a protein module ~70 residues long and mainly involved in the protein–protein interactions of cell signaling and transcriptional repression. The SAM domain of the...

Momentum Maps and Morita Equivalence (2004)

Xu, Ping

We introduce quasi-symplectic groupoids and explain their relation with momentum map theories. This approach enables us to unify into a single framework various momentum map theories, including...

Chern-Weil map for principal bundles over groupoids (2004)

Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Tu, Jean-Louis, Xu, Ping

The theory of principal $G$-bundles over a Lie groupoid is an important one, unifying the various types of principal $G$-bundles, including those over manifolds, those over orbifolds, as well as...

Twisted K-theory of differentiable stacks (2004)

Tu, Jean-Louis, Xu, Ping, Laurent-Gengoux, Camille

In this paper, we develop twisted $K$-theory for stacks, where the twisted class is given by an $S^1$-gerbe over the stack. General properties, including the Mayer-Vietoris property, Bott...

Twisted K-theory of differentiable stacks (2004)

Tu, Jean-Louis, Xu, Ping, Laurent-Gengoux, Camille

In this paper, we develop twisted $K$-theory for stacks, where the twisted class is given by an $S^1$-gerbe over the stack. General properties, including the Mayer-Vietoris property, Bott...

Quantization of Quasi-Presymplectic Groupoids and their Hamiltonian Spaces (2003)

Laurent-Gengoux, Camille, Xu, Ping

We study the prequantization of quasi-presymplectic groupoids and their Hamiltonian spaces using $S^1$-gerbes. We give a geometric description of the integrality condition. As an application, we...

Momentum Maps and Morita Equivalence (2003)

Xu, Ping

We introduce quasi-symplectic groupoids and explain their relation with momentum map theories. This approach enables us to unify into a single framework various momentum map theories, including the...

S^1-bundles and gerbes over differentiable stacks (2003)

Behrend, Kai, Xu, Ping

We study $S^1$-bundles and $S^1$-gerbes over differentiable stacks in terms of Lie groupoids, and construct Chern classes and Dixmier-Douady classes in terms of analogues of connections and curvature.

Equivariant gerbes over compact simple Lie groups (2003)

Behrend, Kai, Xu, Ping, Zhang, Bin

Using groupoid $S^1$-central extensions, we present, for a compact simple Lie group $G$, an infinite dimensional model of $S^1$-gerbe over the differential stack $G/G$ whose Dixmier-Douady class...

Twisted K-theory of differentiable stacks (2003)

Tu, Jean-Louis, Xu, Ping, Laurent-Gengoux, Camille

In this paper, we develop twisted $K$-theory for stacks, where the twisted class is given by an $S^1$-gerbe over the stack. General properties, including the Mayer-Vietoris property, Bott...

Integration of twisted Poisson structures (2003)

Cattaneo, Alberto S., Xu, Ping

Poisson manifolds may be regarded as the infinitesimal form of symplectic groupoids. Twisted Poisson manifolds considered by Severa and Weinstein [math.SG/0107133] are a natural generalization of the...

The Local Structure of Lie Bialgebroids (2002)

Liu, Zhang-Ju, Xu, Ping

We study the local structure of Lie bialgebroids at regular points. In particular, we classify all transitive Lie bialgebroids. In special cases, they are connected to classical dynamical...

Thinking, writing, thinging : an exploration of Heidegger, Fenollsa, Pound, and the Taoist tradition / (2002)

Xu, Ping.

Title on jacket spine: Thinking/writing/thinging : an exploration of Heidegger, Fenollsa, Pound, and the Taoist tradition.

Dirac submanifolds and Poisson involutions (2001)

Xu, Ping

Dirac submanifolds are a natural generalization in the Poisson category for symplectic submanifolds of a symplectic manifold. In a certain sense they correspond to symplectic subgroupoids of the...

Integrable spin Calogero-Moser systems (2001)

Li, Luen-Chau, Xu, Ping

We introduce spin Calogero-Moser systems associated with root systems of simple Lie algebras and give the associated Lax representations (with spectral parameter) and fundamental Poisson bracket...

Quantum dynamical Yang-Baxter equation over a nonabelian base (2001)

Xu, Ping

In this paper we consider dynamical r-matrices over a nonabelian base. There are two main results. First, corresponding to a fat reductive decomposition of a Lie algebra $\frakg =\frakh \oplus...

pH-induced conformational transitions of a molten-globule-like state of the inhibitory prodomain of furin: Implications for zymogen activation (2001)

Bhattacharjya, Surajit, Xu, Ping, Xiang, Hui, Chrétien, Michel, Seidah, Nabil G., Ni, Feng

The endoprotease furin, which belongs to the family of mammalian proprotein convertase (PC), is synthesized as a zymogen with an N-terminal, 81-residue inhibitory prodomain. It has been shown that...

Spin Calogero-Moser systems associated with simple Lie algebras (2000)

Li, Luen-Chau, Xu, Ping

We introduce spin Calogero-Moser systems associated with root systems of simple Lie algebras and give the associated Lax representations (with spectral parameter) and fundamental Poisson bracket...

Triangular dynamical r-matrices and quantization (2000)

Xu, Ping

We provide a general study for triangular dynamical r-matrices using Poisson geometry. We show that a triangular dynamical r-matrix always gives rise to a regular Poisson manifold. Using the Fedosov...

Quantum groupoids (1999)

Xu, Ping

We introduce a general notion of quantum universal enveloping algebroids (QUE algebroids), or quantum groupoids, as a unification of quantum groups and star-products. Some basic properties are...

Dirac structures and dynamical r-matrices (1999)

Liu, Zhang-Ju, Xu, Ping

The purpose of this paper is to establish a connection between various subjects such as dynamical r-matrices, Lie bialgebroids, and Lagrangian subalgebras. Our method relies on the theory of Dirac...

Synthesis of trivalent phosphorus compounds for the Diels-Alder reaction / (1999)

Xu, Ping.

"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Chemistry ... "

Regulation and function of murine adenosine deaminase in the gastrointestinal tract / (1999)

Xu, Ping.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Baylor College of Medicine. Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1999.

Quantum groupoids associated to universal dynamical R-matrices (1998)

Xu, Ping

By using twist construction, we obtain a quantum groupoid $\cald\ot_{q}\uqg$ for any simple Lie algebra $\frakg$. The underlying Hopf algebroid structure encodes all the information of the...

Integration of Lie bialgebroids (1997)

Mackenzie, Kirill C. H., Xu, Ping

We prove that under certain mild assumptions a Lie bialgebroid integrates to a Poisson groupoid. This includes, in particular, a new proof of the existence of local symplectic groupoids for any...

Classical lifting processes and multiplicative vector fields (1997)

Mackenzie, Kirill, Xu, Ping

We extend the calculus of multiplicative vector fields and differential forms and their intrinsic derivatives from Lie groups to Lie groupoids; this generalization turns out to include also the...

Hochschild cohomology and characteristic classes for star-products (1997)

Weinstein, Alan, Xu, Ping

We show that the Hochschild cohomology of the algebra obtained by formal deformation quantization on a symplectic manifold is isomorphic to the formal series with coefficients in the de Rham...

Quantum groupoids and deformation quantization (1997)

Xu, Ping

The purpose of this Note is to unify quantum groups and star-products under a general umbrella: quantum groupoids. It is shown that a quantum groupoid naturally gives rise to a Lie bialgebroid as a...

Gerstenhaber algebras and BV-algebras in Poisson geometry (1997)

Xu, Ping

The purpose of this paper is to establish an explicit correspondence between various geometric structures on a vector bundle with some well-known algebraic structures such as Gerstenhaber algebras...

Pseudodifferential operators on differential groupoids (1997)

Nistor, Victor, Weinstein, Alan, Xu, Ping

We construct an algebra of pseudodifferential operators on each groupoid in a class that generalizes differentiable groupoids to allow manifolds with corners. We show that this construction...

Thinking/writing/thinging :--Heidegger, the Fenollosa-Pound encounter, and the question of Chinese traditional writing /--by Ping Xu. (1997)

Xu, Ping.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 1997.

Nature of knot checks developed during seasoning of radiata pine sawn boards (1996)

Liu, Huawu, Xu, Ping, Samarasinghe, S., Kulasiri, Don

One hundred and sixty radiata pine boards were dried using different methods (air drying, commercial kiln drying and laboratory kiln drying) to study the effect of knot, wood and seasoning variables...

Fedosov *-products and quantum momentum maps (1996)

Xu, Ping

We study various aspects of Fedosov star-products on symplectic manifolds. By introducing the notion of "quantum exponential maps", we give a criterion characterizing Fedosov connections. As a...

Structure "Hyper-Lie Poisson" (1996)

Xu, Ping

The main purpose of the paper is to study hyperkahler structures from the viewpoint of symplectic geometry. We introduce a notion of hypersymplectic structures which encompasses that of hyperkahler...

Flux homomorphism on symplectic groupoids (1996)

Xu, Ping

An anologue of the Calabi invariant for Poisson manifolds is considered. For any Poisson manifold $P$, the Poisson bracket on $C^{\infty}(P)$ extends to a Lie bracket on the space $\Omega^{1}(P)$ of...

Manin Triples for Lie Bialgebroids (1995)

Liu, Zhang-Ju, Weinstein, Alan, Xu, Ping

In his study of Dirac structures, a notion which includes both Poisson structures and closed 2-forms, T. Courant introduced a bracket on the direct sum of vector fields and 1-forms. This bracket does...

Manin triples for Lie bialgebroids (1995)

Zhang-ju Liu, Alan Weinstein, Ping Xu

In his study of Dirac structures, a notion which includes both Poisson structures and closed 2-forms, T. Courant introduceda bracket on the direct sum of vector fields and 1-forms. This bracket does...

Computer simulation of martensitic transformations /--by Ping Xu. (1993)

Xu, Ping.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Materials Science and Mineral Engineering)-- University of California, Berkeley, December 1993.

Contribution of chloride-bicarbonate exchange to pH(i) regulation in guinea pig ventricular myocytes. (1992)

Xu, Ping.

The contribution of Cl-HCO3 exchange, both Na-dependent Cl-HCO3 exchange and Na-independent Cl-HCO3 exchange, to ventricular pHi regulation was the main focus for the present work. During...

New methods in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. (1992)

Xu, Ping.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1992.

Multi-use high-rise concrete buildings /--by Ping Xu. (1991)

Xu, Ping.

Thesis (Master of Architecture)--Illinois Institute of Technology, 1991.

Enhanced transdermal diffusion of macromolecules. (1990)

Xu, Ping.

The transdermal diffusion of macromolecules across hairless mouse skin, treated or untreated with Azone, PG (propylene glycol) or Azone/PG binary mixtures was studied as a function of the molecular...

Enhanced transdermal diffusion of macromolecules. (1990)

Xu, Ping.

The transdermal diffusion of macromolecules across hairless mouse skin, treated or untreated with Azone, PG (propylene glycol) or Azone/PG binary mixtures was studied as a function of the molecular...

Enhanced transdermal diffused of macromolecules /--by Ping Xu. (1990)

Xu, Ping.

Thesis (M.S.)--Dept. of Pharmaceutics, University of Utah, 1990.

Morita equivalence of poisson manifolds / (1990)

Xu, Ping.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Mathematics)--University of California, Berkeley, May 1990.

Estimation of divergence times from multiprotein sequences for a few mammalian species and several distantly related organisms

Nei, Masatoshi, Xu, Ping, Glazko, Galina

When many protein sequences are available for estimating the time of divergence between two species, it is customary to estimate the time for each protein separately and then use the average for all...

A Nitrilase-Like Protein Interacts with GCC Box DNA-Binding Proteins Involved in Ethylene and Defense Responses1

Xu, Ping, Narasimhan, Meena L., Samson, Teresa, Coca, Maria A., Huh, Gyung-Hye, Zhou, Jianmin, ...

Ethylene-responsive element-binding proteins (EREBPs) of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) bind to the GCC box of many pathogenesis-related (PR) gene promoters, including osmotin (PR-5). The two GCC...

Granulocyte Function in Grancalcin-Deficient Mice

Roes, Jürgen, Choi, B. Ken, Power, David, Xu, Ping, Segal, Anthony W.

Grancalcin, one of the penta-EF-hand Ca2+ binding proteins, is expressed at high levels in polymorphonuclear granulocytes (neutrophils). EF-hand proteins are implicated in the regulation of diverse...

Cucumber Mosaic Virus D Satellite RNA–Induced Programmed Cell Death in Tomato

Xu, Ping, Roossinck, Marilyn J.

D satellite RNA (satRNA) with its helper virus, namely, cucumber mosaic virus, causes systemic necrosis in tomato. The infected plant exhibits a distinct spatial and temporal cell death pattern. The...

Expression of antiapoptotic genes bcl-xL and ced-9 in tomato enhances tolerance to viral-induced necrosis and abiotic stress

Xu, Ping, Rogers, Stephanie J., Roossinck, Marilyn J.

D satellite RNA (satRNA) is a strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) satRNA that induces an epidemic lethal disease in tomato. No natural resistance or tolerance has ever been found. Previously, we...

Microbial Desulfurization of Gasoline in a Mycobacterium goodii X7B Immobilized-Cell System

Li, Fuli, Xu, Ping, Feng, Jinhui, Meng, Ling, Zheng, Yuan, Luo, Lailong, ...

Mycobacterium goodii X7B, which had been primarily isolated as a bacterial strain capable of desulfurizing dibenzothiophene to produce 2-hydroxybiphenyl via the 4S pathway, was also found to...

Deep Desulfurization of Diesel Oil and Crude Oils by a Newly Isolated Rhodococcus erythropolis Strain

Yu, Bo, Xu, Ping, Shi, Quan, Ma, Cuiqing

The soil-isolated strain XP was identified as Rhodococcus erythropolis. R. erythropolis XP could efficiently desulfurize benzonaphthothiophene, a complicated model sulfur compound that exists in...

Selective Biodegradation of S and N Heterocycles by a Recombinant Rhodococcus erythropolis Strain Containing Carbazole Dioxygenase

Yu, Bo, Xu, Ping, Zhu, Shanshan, Cai, Xiaofeng, Wang, Ying, Li, Li, ...

The carbazole dioxygenase genes were introduced into a dibenzothiophene degrader. The recombinant Rhodococcus erythropolis SN8 was capable of efficiently degrading dibenzothiophene and carbazole...

Research on the protection effect of pioglitazone for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in rats

Xu, Ping, Zhang, Xing-guo, Li, You-ming, Yu, Chao-hui, Xu, Lei, Xu, Gen-yun

Objective: The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has markedly increased. Insulin resistance has been implicated in the pathogenesis of NAFLD. This study was aimed at observing...

Modeling for Gellan Gum Production by Sphingomonas paucimobilis ATCC 31461 in a Simplified Medium

Wang, Xia, Xu, Ping, Yuan, Yong, Liu, Changlong, Zhang, Dezhong, Yang, Zhengting, ...

Gellan gum production was carried out by Sphingomonas paucimobilis ATCC 31461 in a simplified medium with a short incubation time, and a kinetic model for understanding, controlling, and optimizing...

Biodesulfurization in Biphasic Systems Containing Organic Solvents†

Tao, Fei, Yu, Bo, Xu, Ping, Ma, Cui Qing

Biphasic systems can overcome the problem of low productivity in conventional media and have been exploited for biocatalysis. Solvent-tolerant microorganisms are useful in biotransformation with...

Estimation of divergence times from multiprotein sequences for a few mammalian species and several distantly related organisms

Nei, Masatoshi, Xu, Ping, Glazko, Galina

When many protein sequences are available for estimating the time of divergence between two species, it is customary to estimate the time for each protein separately and then use the average for all...

A Nitrilase-Like Protein Interacts with GCC Box DNA-Binding Proteins Involved in Ethylene and Defense Responses1

Xu, Ping, Narasimhan, Meena L., Samson, Teresa, Coca, Maria A., Huh, Gyung-Hye, Zhou, Jianmin, ...

Ethylene-responsive element-binding proteins (EREBPs) of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) bind to the GCC box of many pathogenesis-related (PR) gene promoters, including osmotin (PR-5). The two GCC...

Granulocyte Function in Grancalcin-Deficient Mice

Roes, Jürgen, Choi, B. Ken, Power, David, Xu, Ping, Segal, Anthony W.

Grancalcin, one of the penta-EF-hand Ca2+ binding proteins, is expressed at high levels in polymorphonuclear granulocytes (neutrophils). EF-hand proteins are implicated in the regulation of diverse...

Cucumber Mosaic Virus D Satellite RNA–Induced Programmed Cell Death in Tomato

Xu, Ping, Roossinck, Marilyn J.

D satellite RNA (satRNA) with its helper virus, namely, cucumber mosaic virus, causes systemic necrosis in tomato. The infected plant exhibits a distinct spatial and temporal cell death pattern. The...

Expression of antiapoptotic genes bcl-xL and ced-9 in tomato enhances tolerance to viral-induced necrosis and abiotic stress

Xu, Ping, Rogers, Stephanie J., Roossinck, Marilyn J.

D satellite RNA (satRNA) is a strain of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) satRNA that induces an epidemic lethal disease in tomato. No natural resistance or tolerance has ever been found. Previously, we...

Microbial Desulfurization of Gasoline in a Mycobacterium goodii X7B Immobilized-Cell System

Li, Fuli, Xu, Ping, Feng, Jinhui, Meng, Ling, Zheng, Yuan, Luo, Lailong, ...

Mycobacterium goodii X7B, which had been primarily isolated as a bacterial strain capable of desulfurizing dibenzothiophene to produce 2-hydroxybiphenyl via the 4S pathway, was also found to...

Deep Desulfurization of Diesel Oil and Crude Oils by a Newly Isolated Rhodococcus erythropolis Strain

Yu, Bo, Xu, Ping, Shi, Quan, Ma, Cuiqing

The soil-isolated strain XP was identified as Rhodococcus erythropolis. R. erythropolis XP could efficiently desulfurize benzonaphthothiophene, a complicated model sulfur compound that exists in...

Selective Biodegradation of S and N Heterocycles by a Recombinant Rhodococcus erythropolis Strain Containing Carbazole Dioxygenase

Yu, Bo, Xu, Ping, Zhu, Shanshan, Cai, Xiaofeng, Wang, Ying, Li, Li, ...

The carbazole dioxygenase genes were introduced into a dibenzothiophene degrader. The recombinant Rhodococcus erythropolis SN8 was capable of efficiently degrading dibenzothiophene and carbazole...

Modeling for Gellan Gum Production by Sphingomonas paucimobilis ATCC 31461 in a Simplified Medium

Wang, Xia, Xu, Ping, Yuan, Yong, Liu, Changlong, Zhang, Dezhong, Yang, Zhengting, ...

Gellan gum production was carried out by Sphingomonas paucimobilis ATCC 31461 in a simplified medium with a short incubation time, and a kinetic model for understanding, controlling, and optimizing...

Biodesulfurization in Biphasic Systems Containing Organic Solvents†

Tao, Fei, Yu, Bo, Xu, Ping, Ma, Cui Qing

Biphasic systems can overcome the problem of low productivity in conventional media and have been exploited for biocatalysis. Solvent-tolerant microorganisms are useful in biotransformation with...

Research on the protection effect of pioglitazone for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in rats

Xu, Ping, Zhang, Xing-guo, Li, You-ming, Yu, Chao-hui, Xu, Lei, Xu, Gen-yun

Objective: The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has markedly increased. Insulin resistance has been implicated in the pathogenesis of NAFLD. This study was aimed at observing...

The Surfactant Tween 80 Enhances Biodesulfurization▿ †

Feng, Jinhui, Zeng, Yiyong, Ma, Cuiqing, Cai, Xiaofeng, Zhang, Quan, Tong, Mingyou, ...

In biocatalytic conversions, substrates and products may display inhibitory or toxic effects on the biocatalyst. Rhodococcus erythropolis 1awq could further remove sulfur from hydrodesulfurized...

Simultaneous Biodetoxification of S, N, and O Pollutants by Engineering of a Carbazole-Degrading Gene Cassette in a Recombinant Biocatalyst▿ †

Yu, Bo, Ma, Cuiqing, Zhou, Wenjuan, Zhu, Shanshan, Wang, Ying, Qu, Jingyao, ...

The gene cassette encoding enzymes responsible for degrading carbazole to anthranilic acid was introduced into a dibenzothiophene degrader. The resultant strain, Rhodococcus erythropolis XPDN, could...

Genome of the Opportunistic Pathogen Streptococcus sanguinis▿ †

Xu, Ping, Alves, Joao M., Kitten, Todd, Brown, Arunsri, Chen, Zhenming, Ozaki, Luiz S., ...

The genome of Streptococcus sanguinis is a circular DNA molecule consisting of 2,388,435 bp and is 177 to 590 kb larger than the other 21 streptococcal genomes that have been sequenced. The G+C...

Cometabolic Degradation of Dibenzofuran and Dibenzothiophene by a Newly Isolated Carbazole-Degrading Sphingomonas sp. Strain▿

Gai, Zhonghui, Yu, Bo, Li, Li, Wang, Ying, Ma, Cuiqing, Feng, Jinhui, ...

A carbazole-utilizing bacterium was isolated by enrichment from petroleum-contaminated soil. The isolate, designated Sphingomonas sp. strain XLDN2-5, could utilize carbazole (CA) as the sole source...

Computational Estimation and Experimental Verification of Off-Target Silencing during Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing in Plants1[W][OA]

Xu, Ping, Zhang, Yuanji, Kang, Li, Roossinck, Marilyn J., Mysore, Kirankumar S.

Successful application of posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS) for gene function study in both plants and animals depends on high target specificity and silencing efficiency. By computational...

Degradation of Carbazole by Microbial Cells Immobilized in Magnetic Gellan Gum Gel Beads▿

Wang, Xia, Gai, Zhonghui, Yu, Bo, Feng, Jinhui, Xu, Changyong, Yuan, Yong, ...

Polycyclic aromatic heterocycles, such as carbazole, are environmental contaminants suspected of posing human health risks. In this study, we investigated the degradation of carbazole by immobilized...

Three-dimensional structure and ligand interactions of the low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase from Campylobacter jejuni

Tolkatchev, Dmitri, Shaykhutdinov, Rustem, Xu, Ping, Plamondon, Josée, Watson, David C., Young, N. Martin, ...

A putative low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase (LMW-PTP) was identified in the genome sequence of the bacterial pathogen, Campylobacter jejuni. This novel gene, cj1258, has sequence...

Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase from Corynebacterium ammoniagenes Lacking a Conserved Lysine▿ †

Wang, Xing, Ma, Cuiqing, Wang, Xiuwen, Xu, Ping

The pyrE gene, encoding orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (OPRTase), was cloned by nested PCR and colony blotting from Corynebacterium ammoniagenes ATCC 6872, which is widely used in nucleotide...

Polymerization of the SAM domain of MAPKKK Ste11 from the budding yeast: Implications for efficient signaling through the MAPK cascades

Bhattacharjya, Surajit, Xu, Ping, Chakrapani, Mukundan, Johnston, Linda, Ni, Feng

The sterile α-motif (SAM) is a protein module ~70 residues long and mainly involved in the protein–protein interactions of cell signaling and transcriptional repression. The SAM domain of the...

Adhesion Molecule–dependent Mechanisms Regulate the Rate of Macrophage Clearance During the Resolution of Peritoneal Inflammation

Bellingan, Geoffrey John, Xu, Ping, Cooksley, Helen, Cauldwell, Helen, Shock, Anthony, Bottoms, Stephen, ...

Macrophage clearance is essential for the resolution of inflammation. Much is known about how monocytes enter the inflammatory site but little is known about how resultant macro-phages are cleared....

pH-induced conformational transitions of a molten–globule–like state of the inhibitory prodomain of furin: Implications for zymogen activation

Bhattacharjya, Surajit, Xu, Ping, Xiang, Hui, Chrétien, Michel, Seidah, Nabil G., Ni, Feng

The endoprotease furin, which belongs to the family of mammalian proprotein convertase (PC), is synthesized as a zymogen with an N-terminal, 81-residue inhibitory prodomain. It has been shown that...

Site-specific ubiquitination exposes a linear motif to promote interferon-α receptor endocytosis

Kumar, K.G. Suresh, Barriere, Hervé, Carbone, Christopher J., Liu, Jianghuai, Swaminathan, Gayathri, Xu, Ping, ...

Ligand-induced endocytosis and lysosomal degradation of cognate receptors regulate the extent of cell signaling. Along with linear endocytic motifs that recruit the adaptin protein complex 2...

Gastric Bypass Surgery in the United States, 1998–2002

Smoot, Tonya M., Xu, Ping, Hilsenrath, Peter, Kuppersmith, Nancy C., Singh, Karan P.

We assessed the prevalence of gastric bypass surgeries in the United States on the basis of data from the 1998 to 2002 National Hospital Discharge Survey. Between 1998 and 2002, rates (per 100 000...

A Novel Gene, Encoding 6-Hydroxy-3-Succinoylpyridine Hydroxylase, Involved in Nicotine Degradation by Pseudomonas putida Strain S16▿ ‡

Tang, Hongzhi, Wang, Shuning, Ma, Lanying, Meng, Xiangzhou, Deng, Zixin, Zhang, Dake, ...

Previous research suggested that Pseudomonas spp. may attack the pyrrolidine ring of nicotine in a way similar to mammalian metabolism, resulting in the formation of pseudooxynicotine, the direct...

Identification of Streptococcus sanguinis Genes Required for Biofilm Formation and Examination of Their Role in Endocarditis Virulence▿

Ge, Xiuchun, Kitten, Todd, Chen, Zhenming, Lee, Sehmi P., Munro, Cindy L., Xu, Ping

Streptococcus sanguinis is one of the pioneers in the bacterial colonization of teeth and is one of the most abundant species in the oral biofilm called dental plaque. S. sanguinis is also the most...

Polyubiquitination of Prolactin Receptor Stimulates Its Internalization, Postinternalization Sorting, and Degradation via the Lysosomal Pathway▿ †

Varghese, Bentley, Barriere, Herve, Carbone, Christopher J., Banerjee, Anamika, Swaminathan, Gayathri, Plotnikov, Alexander, ...

The ubiquitination of the receptor that mediates signaling induced by the polypeptide pituitary hormone prolactin (PRL) has been shown to lead to the degradation of this receptor and to the ensuing...

Laurent-Gengoux Twisted K-theory of differentiable stacks

Jean-louis Tu, Ping Xu, Camille Laurent-gengoux

ABSTRACT. – In this paper, we develop twisted K-theory for stacks, where the twisted class is given by an S 1-gerbe over the stack. General properties, including the Mayer–Vietoris property, Bott...

Structure dissection of human progranulin identifies well-folded granulin/epithelin modules with unique functional activities

Tolkatchev, Dmitri, Malik, Suneil, Vinogradova, Anna, Wang, Ping, Chen, Zhigang, Xu, Ping, ...

Progranulin is a secreted protein with important functions in several physiological and pathological processes, such as embryonic development, host defense, and wound repair. Autosomal dominant...

Activated Expression of an Arabidopsis HD-START Protein Confers Drought Tolerance with Improved Root System and Reduced Stomatal Density[W][OA]

Yu, Hong, Chen, Xi, Hong, Yuan-Yuan, Wang, Yao, Xu, Ping, Ke, Sheng-Dong, ...

Drought is one of the most important environmental constraints limiting plant growth and agricultural productivity. To understand the underlying mechanism of drought tolerance and to identify genes...

Distribution modeling and simulation of gene expression data

Parrish, Rudolph S., Spencer III, Horace J., Xu, Ping

Data derived from gene expression microarrays often are used for purposes of classification and discovery. Many methods have been proposed for accomplishing these and related aims, however the...

Modified linear discriminant analysis approaches for classification of high-dimensional microarray data

Xu, Ping, Brock, Guy N., Parrish, Rudolph S.

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is one of the most popular methods of classification. For high-dimensional microarray data classification, due to the small number of samples and large number of...

Novel Nicotine Oxidoreductase-Encoding Gene Involved in Nicotine Degradation by Pseudomonas putida Strain S16 ▿ †

Tang, Hongzhi, Wang, Lijuan, Meng, Xiangzhou, Ma, Lanying, Wang, Shuning, He, Xiaofei, ...

There are quite a few ongoing biochemical investigations of nicotine degradation in different organisms. In this work, we identified and sequenced a gene (designated nicA) involved in nicotine...

The Deubiquitinating Enzyme Ataxin-3, a Polyglutamine Disease Protein, Edits Lys63 Linkages in Mixed Linkage Ubiquitin Chains*S⃞

Winborn, Brett J., Travis, Sue M., Todi, Sokol V., Scaglione, K. Matthew, Xu, Ping, Williams, Aislinn J., ...

Ubiquitin chain complexity in cells is likely regulated by a diverse set of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) with distinct ubiquitin chain preferences. Here we show that the polyglutamine disease...

Identification of Proteins Binding to E-Box/Ku86 Sites and Function of the Tumor Suppressor SAFB1 in Transcriptional Regulation of the Human Xanthine Oxidoreductase Gene*

Lin, Junji, Xu, Ping, LaVallee, Patricia, Hoidal, John R.

The xanthine oxidoreductase gene (XOR) encodes an important source of reactive oxygen species and uric acid, and its expression is associated with various human diseases including several forms of...

Chromosomal Location of Traits Associated with Wheat Seedling Water and Phosphorus Use Efficiency under Different Water and Phosphorus Stresses

Cao, Hong-Xing, Zhang, Zheng-Bin, Sun, Cheng-Xu, Shao, Hong-Bo, Song, Wei-Yi, Xu, Ping

The objective of this study was to locate chromosomes for improving water and phosphorus-deficiency tolerance of wheat at the seedling stage. A set of Chinese Spring-Egyptian Red wheat substitution...

The level of Hsp27 in lymphocytes is negatively associated with a higher risk of lung cancer

Wang, Feng, Feng, Maohui, Xu, Ping, Xiao, Han, Niu, Piye, Yang, Xiaobo, ...

Heat shock proteins (Hsps) can protect cells, organs, and whole organisms against damage caused by abnormal environmental hazards. Some studies have reported that lymphocyte Hsps may serve as...