The heptad repeat (HR), a conserved structural motif of class I viral fusion proteins, is responsible for the formation of a six-helix bundle structure during the envelope fusion process. The insect...
Active control of radiated pressure of a submarine hull (2008)
A theoretical analysis of the active control of low-frequency radiated pressure from submarine hulls is presented. Two typical hull models are examined in this paper. Each model consists of a...
Active control of low frequency hull radiated noise (2008)
A theoretical analysis of the active control of low-frequency radiated pressure from a finite cylindrical pressure hull is presented. The control action is implemented through a Tee-sectioned...
Phosphorus cycling in the North and South Atlantic Ocean subtropical gyres (2008)
Mather, R.L., Reynolds, S.E., Wolff, G.A., Williams, R.G., Torres-Valdes, S., Woodward, M.S., ...
Despite similar physical properties, the Northern and Southern Atlantic subtropical gyres have different biogeochemical regimes. The Northern subtropical gyre, which is subject to iron deposition...
Watanabe, K., Badr, E-S., Pan, X., Achterberg, E.P.
The measurements of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) in seawater are key in global change and coastal eutrophication studies. Nowadays, the high-temperature...
Shao, M., Marcy, G., Unwin, S., Allen, R., Beichman, C., Catanzarite, J., ...
The past two Decadal Surveys in Astronomy and Astrophysics recommended the completion of a space-based interferometry mission, known today as SIM PlanetQuest, for its unique ability to detect and...
The F protein is the major glycoprotein present in the envelopes of budded virus (BV) of members of the family Baculoviridae. The F protein mediates low-pH-activated fusion with insect cell...
Pan, X., Long, G., Wang, R.R., Hou, S., Wang, H., Zheng, Y., ...
The open reading frame Ha107 of Helicoverpa armigera single nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearNPV) encodes a putative protein of 51 kDa with homologues in a few group II NPVs and a granulovirus....
Time-series analysis of the relationship between air pollution and daily mortality in Beijing (2007)
Long, G., Pan, X., Kormelink, R.J.M., Vlak, J.M.
Entry of the budded virus form of baculoviruses into insect and mammalian cells is generally thought to occur through a low-pH-dependent endocytosis pathway, possibly through clathrin-coated pits....
Long, G., Pan, X., Westenberg, M., Vlak, J.M.
In the family Baculoviridae, two distinct envelope fusion proteins are identified in budded virions (BVs). GP64 is the major envelope fusion protein of group I nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV) BVs. An...
Ha 1 35, a unique nonstructural protein of HearNPV, is not essential for viral propagation (2006)
Pan, X., Long, G., Westenberg, M., Hou, S., Deng, F., Wang, H, ...
Building Expression into Virtual Characters (2006)
Vinayagamoorthy, V., Gillies, M., Steed, A., Tanguy, E., Pan, X., Loscos, C., ...
Virtual characters are an important part of many 3D graphical simulations. In entertainment or training applications, virtual characters might be one of the main mechanisms for creating and...
Yang, YR, Williams, GM, Craig, PS, Sun, T, Yang, SK, Cheng, L, ...
A comprehensive study of human echinococcosis (caused by Echinococcus granulosus or E. multilocularis), including assessment of hospital records, community Surveys and patient follow-up, was...
Kleinert,A., Grubert,G., Pan,X., Hamel,C., Seidel-Morgenstern,A., Caro,J.
For an effective operation of a membrane reactor in comparison with a conventional fixed-bed reactor, the kinetic compatibility of hydrogen production and its removal is essential. The aim of this...
Pan, X., Sanders, R., Tappin, A.D., Worsfold, P.J., Achterberg, E.P.
The marine biogeochemistries of carbon and nitrogen have come under increased scrutiny because of their close involvement in climate change and coastal eutrophication. Recent studies have shown that...
Kleinert, A., Grubert, G., Pan, X., Hamel, C., Seidel-Morgenstern, A., Caro, J.
For an effective operation of a membrane reactor in comparison with a conventional fixed-bed reactor, the kinetic compatibility of hydrogen production and its removal is essential. The aim of this...
Kleinert, A., Grubert, G., Pan, X., Hamel, C., Seidel-Morgenstern, A., Caro, J.
For an effective operation of a membrane reactor in comparison with a conventional fixed-bed reactor, the kinetic compatibility of hydrogen production and its removal is essential. The aim of this...
High-precision early mission narrow angle sciene with the Space Interferometry Mission (2004)
Shaklan, S., Milman, M. H., Pan, X.
We have developed a technique that allows SIM to measure relative stellar positions with an accuracy of 1 micro-arcsecond at any time during its 5-yr mission. Unlike SIM's standard narrow-angle...
ASEPS-0 Testbed Interferometer (2004)
Colavita, M., Shao, M., Hines, B., Wallace, J., Gursel, Y., Malbet, F., ...
The ASEPS-0 Testbed Interferometer is a long-baseline infrared interferometer optimized for high-accuracy narrow-angle astrometry.
The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (2004)
Colavita, M., Wallace, J., Hines, B., Gursel, Y., Malbet, F., Palmer, D., ...
The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) is a long-baseline infrared interferometer located at Palomar Observatory, California.
The Visual Orbit of 64 Piscum (2004)
Boden, A., Oppenheimer, B., Lane, B., Creech-Eakman, M., Colavita, M., Dumont, P., ...
We report on the determination of the visual orbit of the double-lined spectroscopic binary system 64 Piscum with data obtained by the Palomar Testbed Interferometer in 1997 and 1998.
The Visual Orbit of theta***sup2*** Tauri and the Distance to the Hyades (2004)
Pan, X., Shao, M., Kulkarni, S.
Comparisons of measurements from interferometry, spectroscopy, precision photometry, lunar occultation, and Hipparcos not only checks the accuracy of the distance to the Hyades, but also provides an...
MAM testbed data analysis: cyclic averaging (2004)
The micro-arcsecond metrology testbed (MAM) provides a testing ground for SIM to perform optical path difference measurements with picometer (pm) precision.
A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster (2004)
Pan, X., Shao, M., Kulkarni, S. R.
Nearby open clusters of stars (those that are not gravitationally bound)have played a crucial role in the development of steller astronomy because, as a consequence of the stars having a common age,...
Critical Current Density and Resistivity of MgB2 Films (2003)
Rowell, J. M., Xu, S. Y., Zeng, X. H., Pogrebnyakov, A. V., Li, Q., Xi, X. X., ...
The high resistivity of many bulk and film samples of MgB2 is most readily explained by the suggestion that only a fraction of the cross-sectional area of the samples is effectively carrying current....
Metallische Loesungs-Diffusions-Membran sowie Verfahren zur Herstellung (2003)
Pan, X., Stroh, N., Brunner, H.
WO2003011433 A UPAB: 20030429 NOVELTY - Metallic solution-diffusion membrane consists of a macroporous base body with a thin metallic membrane layer (3). The base body consists of a hollow fiber (1)....
Synthesis and Properties of c-axis Oriented Epitaxial MgB2 Thin Films (2002)
Bu, S. D., Kim, D. M., Choi, J. H., Giencke, J., Patnaik, S., Cooley, L., ...
We report the growth and properties of epitaxial MgB2 thin films on (0001) Al2O3 substrates. The MgB2 thin films were prepared by depositing boron films via RF magnetron sputtering, followed by a...
DOMAIN STRUCTURES OF EPITAXIAL SrRuO (1970)
J. C. Jiang, X. Pan, C. L. Chen
The structural characteristics of SrRuO 3 thin films deposited on a (001) SrTiO 3 substrate by pulsed laser were studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution TEM. TEM studies...
Sreevatsan, S, Pan, X, Stockbauer, K E, Williams, D L, Kreiswirth, B N, Musser, J M
Two genes (rpsL and rrs) with mutations associated with streptomycin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis were characterized in 78 streptomycin-resistant and 61 streptomycin-susceptible isolates...
Moghazeh, S L, Pan, X, Arain, T, Stover, C K, Musser, J M, Kreiswirth, B N
A collection of 24 rifampin-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with characterized RNA polymerase beta-subunit (rpoB) gene mutations was tested against the antimycobacterial...
Sreevatsan, S, Pan, X, Zhang, Y, Deretic, V, Musser, J M
Automated DNA sequencing was used to analyze the oxyR-ahpC region in 229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates recently recovered from diseased humans and animals. The entire 1,221-bp region...
Sreevatsan, S, Pan, X, Zhang, Y, Kreiswirth, B N, Musser, J M
A gene (pncA) with mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex members was characterized in 67 pyrazinamide-resistant and 51 pyrazinamide-susceptible...
Ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: critical role of embB mutations.
Sreevatsan, S, Stockbauer, K E, Pan, X, Kreiswirth, B N, Moghazeh, S L, Jacobs, W R, ...
Ethambutol [(S,S')-2,2'-(ethylenediimino)di-1-butanol; EMB], is a first-line drug used to treat tuberculosis. To gain insight into the molecular basis of EMB resistance, we characterized the 10-kb...
Musser, J M, Kapur, V, Szeto, J, Pan, X, Swanson, D S, Martin, D R
Chromosomal diversity and relationships among 126 Streptococcus pyogenes strains expressing M1 protein from 13 countries on five continents were analyzed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and...
Identification of a polymorphic nucleotide in oxyR specific for Mycobacterium bovis.
Sreevatsan, S, Escalante, P, Pan, X, Gillies, D A, Siddiqui, S, Khalaf, C N, ...
Automated sequence analysis of a 410-bp region of the axyR gene in 105 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates identified a polymorphic nucleotide that differentiated Mycobacterium bovis isolates...
Swanson, D S, Pan, X, Musser, J M
Mycobacterium scrofulaceum is most commonly recovered from children with cervical lymphadenitis, although it also accounts for approximately 2% of the mycobacterial infections in AIDS patients....
Mejia, L M, Stockbauer, K E, Pan, X, Cravioto, A, Musser, J M
Sequence variation was studied in several target genes in 54 strains of group A Streptococcus (GAS) cultured from children with pharyngitis in Mexico City. Although 16 distinct emm alleles were...
Lorenz, M C, Pan, X, Harashima, T, Cardenas, M E, Xue, Y, Hirsch, J P, ...
Pseudohyphal differentiation in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is induced in diploid cells in response to nitrogen starvation and abundant fermentable carbon source. Filamentous growth...
Gramene, a Tool for Grass Genomics
Ware, D. H., Jaiswal, P., Ni, J., Yap, I. V., Pan, X., Clark, K. Y., ...
Sreevatsan, S, Pan, X, Stockbauer, K E, Williams, D L, Kreiswirth, B N, Musser, J M
Two genes (rpsL and rrs) with mutations associated with streptomycin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis were characterized in 78 streptomycin-resistant and 61 streptomycin-susceptible isolates...
Moghazeh, S L, Pan, X, Arain, T, Stover, C K, Musser, J M, Kreiswirth, B N
A collection of 24 rifampin-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with characterized RNA polymerase beta-subunit (rpoB) gene mutations was tested against the antimycobacterial...
Sreevatsan, S, Pan, X, Zhang, Y, Deretic, V, Musser, J M
Automated DNA sequencing was used to analyze the oxyR-ahpC region in 229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates recently recovered from diseased humans and animals. The entire 1,221-bp region...
Sreevatsan, S, Pan, X, Zhang, Y, Kreiswirth, B N, Musser, J M
A gene (pncA) with mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex members was characterized in 67 pyrazinamide-resistant and 51 pyrazinamide-susceptible...
Ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: critical role of embB mutations.
Sreevatsan, S, Stockbauer, K E, Pan, X, Kreiswirth, B N, Moghazeh, S L, Jacobs, W R, ...
Ethambutol [(S,S')-2,2'-(ethylenediimino)di-1-butanol; EMB], is a first-line drug used to treat tuberculosis. To gain insight into the molecular basis of EMB resistance, we characterized the 10-kb...
Musser, J M, Kapur, V, Szeto, J, Pan, X, Swanson, D S, Martin, D R
Chromosomal diversity and relationships among 126 Streptococcus pyogenes strains expressing M1 protein from 13 countries on five continents were analyzed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and...
Identification of a polymorphic nucleotide in oxyR specific for Mycobacterium bovis.
Sreevatsan, S, Escalante, P, Pan, X, Gillies, D A, Siddiqui, S, Khalaf, C N, ...
Automated sequence analysis of a 410-bp region of the axyR gene in 105 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates identified a polymorphic nucleotide that differentiated Mycobacterium bovis isolates...