Rong Xiao

FEATURE SELECTION ON COMBINATIONS FOR EFFICIENT LEARNING FROM IMAGES (2008)

Rong Xiao, Lei Zhang, Hong-jiang Zhang

Due to the high computation complexity and intra-class variance in the area of image pattern recognition, feature extraction for image pattern recognition has been the focus of interest for quite...

Smart Sketchpad—An On-line Graphics Recognition System (2008)

Liu Wenyin, Wenjie Qian, Rong Xiao, Xiangyu Jin

An on-line graphics recognition system is presented, which provides users a natural, convenient, and efficient way to input rigid and regular shapes or graphic objects (e.g., triangles, rectangles,...

Joint Boosting Feature Selection for Robust Face Recognition (2008)

Rong Xiao, Wujun Li, Yuandong Tian, Xiaoou Tang

A fundamental challenge in face recognition lies in determining what facial features are important for the identification of faces. In this paper, a novel face recognition framework is proposed to...

A single base-pair mutation in the 3'-untranslated region of HLA-G mRNA is associated with pre-eclampsia (2008)

Yie, Shang-mian, Li, Liang-hong, Xiao, Rong, Librach, Clifford L.

Human leukocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) is a non-classical class I HLA molecule that is expressed by extravillous cytotrophoblast cells. This protein may play a critical role in the protection of...

Smart Sketchpad—An On-line Graphics Recognition System (2007)

Liu Wenyin, Wenjie Qian, Rong Xiao, Xiangyu Jin

An on-line graphics recognition system is presented, which provides users a natural, convenient, and efficient way to input rigid and regular shapes or graphic objects (e.g., triangles, rectangles,...

Easyalbum: an interactive photo annotation system based on face clustering and re-ranking (2007)

Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Rong Xiao, Ong Tian, Xiaoou Tang

Digital photo management is becoming indispensable for the explosively growing family photo albums due to the rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras. In an effective photo...

Crystal structure of AGR_C_4470p from Agrobacterium tumefaciens (2007)

Vorobiev, Sergey M., Neely, Helen, Seetharaman, Jayaraman, Ma, Li-Chung, Xiao, Rong, Acton, Thomas B., ...

We report here the crystal structure at 2.0 Å resolution of the AGR_C_4470p protein from the Gram-negative bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The protein is a tightly associated dimer, each...

A Semi-Algebraic Approach for the Computation of Lyapunov Functions (2006)

She, Zhikun, Xia, Bican, Xiao, Rong

In this paper we deal with the problem of computing Lya punov functions for stability verification of differential sys tems. We concern on symbolic methods and start the dis cussion with a classical...

Progesterone regulates HLA-G gene expression through a novel progesterone response element (2006)

Yie, Shang-mian, Xiao, Rong, Librach, Clifford L.

BACKGROUND: We have previously demonstrated that progesterone has a stimulatory effect on HLA-G gene expression. Because this effect was abolished by the anti-progestin, RU486, we hypothesize that...

Progesterone enhances HLA-G gene expression in JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells and human cytotrophoblasts in vitro (2006)

Yie, Shang-mian, Li, Liang-hong, Li, Guang-ming, Xiao, Rong, Librach, Clifford L.

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that HLA-G plays a critical role in maternal immune tolerance to the fetus. However, regulation of HLA-G gene expression is not well understood. Many studies have...

Progesterone regulates HLA-G gene expression through a novel progesterone response element (2006)

Yie, Shang-mian, Xiao, Rong, Librach, Clifford L.

BACKGROUND: We have previously demonstrated that progesterone has a stimulatory effect on HLA-G gene expression. Because this effect was abolished by the anti-progestin, RU486, we hypothesize that...

Solving parametric semi-algebraic systems (2005)

Bican Xia, Rong Xiao, Lu Yang

Let Q be the field of rational numbers and Q[u1,..., ud, x1,..., xs] the ring of polynomials in n indeterminates with coefficients in Q and d + s = n (0 ≤ d < n). The indeterminates are divided...

Effect of ethanol on the development of visceral yolk sac (2005)

Xu, Yajun, Xiao, Rong, Li, Yong

BACKGROUND: Prenatal ethanol exposure can cause development retardation and malformations in human offspring. Before the formation of chorioallantoic placenta, yolk sac plays an important role in...

Effect of ethanol on the development of visceral yolk sac (2005)

Xu, Yajun, Xiao, Rong, Li, Yong

BACKGROUND: Prenatal ethanol exposure can cause development retardation and malformations in human offspring. Before the formation of chorioallantoic placenta, yolk sac plays an important role in...

Progesterone enhances HLA-G gene expression in JEG-3 choriocarcinoma cells and human cytotrophoblasts in vitro (2005)

Yie, Shang-mian, Li, Liang-hong, Li, Guang-ming, Xiao, Rong, L.Librach, Clifford

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that HLA-G plays a critical role in maternal immune tolerance to the fetus. However, regulation of HLA-G gene expression is not well understood. Many studies have...

Robust Multipose Face Detection in Images (2004)

Rong Xiao, Ming-jing Li, Hong-jiang Zhang

Automatic human face detection from images in surveillance and biometric applications is a challenging task due to the variances in image background, view, illumination, articulation, and facial...

The NMR solution structure of the 30S ribosomal protein S27e encoded in gene RS27_ARCFU of Archaeoglobus fulgidis reveals a novel protein fold (2004)

Herve Du Penhoat, Catherine, Atreya, Hanudatta S., Shen, Yang, Liu, Gaohua, Acton, Thomas B., Xiao, Rong, ...

The Archaeoglobus fulgidis gene RS27_ARCFU encodes the 30S ribosomal protein S27e. Here, we present the high-quality NMR solution structure of this archaeal protein, which comprises a C4 zinc finger...

Weakly nonlinear water waves over varying topography / (2003)

Xiao, Rong.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.

Automated protein fold determination using a minimal NMR constraint strategy (2003)

Zheng, Deyou, Huang, Yuanpeng J., Moseley, Hunter N.B., Xiao, Rong, Aramini, James, Swapna, G.V.T., ...

Determination of precise and accurate protein structures by NMR generally requires weeks or even months to acquire and interpret all the necessary NMR data. However, even medium-accuracy fold...

SPINE 2: a system for collaborative structural proteomics within a federated database framework (2003)

Goh, Chern-Sing, Lan, Ning, Echols, Nathaniel, Douglas, Shawn M., Milburn, Duncan, Bertone, Paul, ...

We present version 2 of the SPINE system for structural proteomics. SPINE is available over the web at http://nesg.org. It serves as the central hub for the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium,...

Solution NMR structure of the 30S ribosomal protein S28E from Pyrococcus horikoshii (2003)

Aramini, James M., Huang, Yuanpeng J., Cort, John R., Goldsmith-Fischman, Sharon, Xiao, Rong, Shih, Liang-Yu, ...

We report NMR assignments and solution structure of the 71-residue 30S ribosomal protein S28E from the archaean Pyrococcus horikoshii, target JR19 of the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium. The...

Nonlinear Mapping from Multi-View Face Patterns to a Gaussian Distribution in a Low Dimensional Space (2001)

Stan Z. Li, Rong Xiao, Zeyu Li, Hongjiang Zhang

When face patterns are subject to changes in view and illumination and facial shape, their distribution is highly nonlinear and complex in any space linear to the original image space. In this paper,...

Fluorescent Pseudomonad Pyoverdines Bind and Oxidize Ferrous Ion

Xiao, Rong, Kisaalita, William S.

Major pyoverdines from Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79 (Pf-B), P. aeruginosa ATCC 15692 (Pa-C), and P. putida ATCC 12633 (Pp-C) were examined by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic techniques to...

SPINE 2: a system for collaborative structural proteomics within a federated database framework

Goh, Chern-Sing, Lan, Ning, Echols, Nathaniel, Douglas, Shawn M., Milburn, Duncan, Bertone, Paul, ...

We present version 2 of the SPINE system for structural proteomics. SPINE is available over the web at http://nesg.org. It serves as the central hub for the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium,...

NMR data collection and analysis protocol for high-throughput protein structure determination

Liu, Gaohua, Shen, Yang, Atreya, Hanudatta S., Parish, David, Shao, Ying, Sukumaran, Dinesh K., ...

A standardized protocol enabling rapid NMR data collection for high-quality protein structure determination is presented that allows one to capitalize on high spectrometer sensitivity: a set of five...

The AtRAD51C Gene Is Required for Normal Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis and Double-Stranded Break Repair in Arabidopsis1

Li, Wuxing, Yang, Xiaohui, Lin, Zhenguo, Timofejeva, Ljudmilla, Xiao, Rong, Makaroff, Christopher A., ...

Meiotic prophase I is a complex process involving homologous chromosome (homolog) pairing, synapsis, and recombination. The budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) RAD51 gene is known to be...

Fluorescent Pseudomonad Pyoverdines Bind and Oxidize Ferrous Ion

Xiao, Rong, Kisaalita, William S.

Major pyoverdines from Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79 (Pf-B), P. aeruginosa ATCC 15692 (Pa-C), and P. putida ATCC 12633 (Pp-C) were examined by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic techniques to...

SPINE 2: a system for collaborative structural proteomics within a federated database framework

Goh, Chern-Sing, Lan, Ning, Echols, Nathaniel, Douglas, Shawn M., Milburn, Duncan, Bertone, Paul, ...

We present version 2 of the SPINE system for structural proteomics. SPINE is available over the web at http://nesg.org. It serves as the central hub for the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium,...

The AtRAD51C Gene Is Required for Normal Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis and Double-Stranded Break Repair in Arabidopsis1

Li, Wuxing, Yang, Xiaohui, Lin, Zhenguo, Timofejeva, Ljudmilla, Xiao, Rong, Makaroff, Christopher A., ...

Meiotic prophase I is a complex process involving homologous chromosome (homolog) pairing, synapsis, and recombination. The budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) RAD51 gene is known to be...

NMR data collection and analysis protocol for high-throughput protein structure determination

Liu, Gaohua, Shen, Yang, Atreya, Hanudatta S., Parish, David, Shao, Ying, Sukumaran, Dinesh K., ...

A standardized protocol enabling rapid NMR data collection for high-quality protein structure determination is presented that allows one to capitalize on high spectrometer sensitivity: a set of five...

Molecular insights into substrate recognition and catalysis by tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase

Forouhar, Farhad, Anderson, J. L. Ross, Mowat, Christopher G., Vorobiev, Sergey M., Hussain, Arif, Abashidze, Mariam, ...

Tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) constitute an important, yet relatively poorly understood, family of heme-containing enzymes. Here, we report extensive...

Purification, Characterization, Gene Cloning, and Expression of a Novel Alcohol Dehydrogenase with Anti-Prelog Stereospecificity from Candida parapsilosis▿ †

Nie, Yao, Xu, Yan, Mu, Xiao Qing, Wang, Hai Yan, Yang, Ming, Xiao, Rong

An alcohol dehydrogenase from Candida parapsilosis CCTCC M203011 was characterized along with its biochemical activity and structural gene. The amino acid sequence shows similarity to those of the...

Crystal structure of AGR_C_4470p from Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Vorobiev, Sergey M., Neely, Helen, Seetharaman, Jayaraman, Ma, Li-Chung, Xiao, Rong, Acton, Thomas B., ...

We report here the crystal structure at 2.0 Å resolution of the AGR_C_4470p protein from the Gram-negative bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The protein is a tightly associated dimer, each...

The NMR solution structure of the 30S ribosomal protein S27e encoded in gene RS27_ARCFU of Archaeoglobus fulgidis reveals a novel protein fold

Herve Du Penhoat, Catherine, Atreya, Hanudatta S., Shen, Yang, Liu, Gaohua, Acton, Thomas B., Xiao, Rong, ...

The Archaeoglobus fulgidis gene RS27_ARCFU encodes the 30S ribosomal protein S27e. Here, we present the high-quality NMR solution structure of this archaeal protein, which comprises a C4 zinc finger...

Automated protein fold determination using a minimal NMR constraint strategy

Zheng, Deyou, Huang, Yuanpeng J., Moseley, Hunter N.B., Xiao, Rong, Aramini, James, Swapna, G.V.T., ...

Determination of precise and accurate protein structures by NMR generally requires weeks or even months to acquire and interpret all the necessary NMR data. However, even medium-accuracy fold...

Solution NMR structure of the 30S ribosomal protein S28E from Pyrococcus horikoshii

Aramini, James M., Huang, Yuanpeng J., Cort, John R., Goldsmith-Fischman, Sharon, Xiao, Rong, Shih, Liang-Yu, ...

We report NMR assignments and solution structure of the 71-residue 30S ribosomal protein S28E from the archaean Pyrococcus horikoshii, target JR19 of the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium. The...

Structural basis for suppression of a host antiviral response by influenza A virus

Das, Kalyan, Ma, Li-Chung, Xiao, Rong, Radvansky, Brian, Aramini, James, Zhao, Li, ...

Influenza A viruses are responsible for seasonal epidemics and high mortality pandemics. A major function of the viral NS1A protein, a virulence factor, is the inhibition of the production of IFN-β...

Quantum chemical 13Cα chemical shift calculations for protein NMR structure determination, refinement, and validation

Vila, Jorge A., Aramini, James M., Rossi, Paolo, Kuzin, Alexandre, Su, Min, Seetharaman, Jayaraman, ...

A recently determined set of 20 NMR-derived conformations of a 48-residue all-α-helical protein, (PDB ID code 2JVD), is validated here by comparing the observed 13Cα chemical shifts with those...

Molecular Insights into the Biosynthesis of the F420 Coenzyme*

Forouhar, Farhad, Abashidze, Mariam, Xu, Huimin, Grochowski, Laura L., Seetharaman, Jayaraman, Hussain, Munif, ...

Coenzyme F420, a hydride carrier, is found in Archaea and some bacteria and has crucial roles in methanogenesis, antibiotic biosynthesis, DNA repair, and activation of antitubercular compounds. CofD,...

Ser67Asp and His68Asp Substitutions in Candida parapsilosis Carbonyl Reductase Alter the Coenzyme Specificity and Enantioselectivity of Ketone Reduction▿ †

Zhang, Rongzhen, Xu, Yan, Sun, Ying, Zhang, Wenchi, Xiao, Rong

A short-chain carbonyl reductase (SCR) from Candida parapsilosis catalyzes an anti-Prelog reduction of 2-hydroxyacetophenone to (S)-1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol (PED) and exhibits coenzyme specificity for...