Evidence for the 8,200 a BP cooling event in the middle Okinawa Trough (2008)
YU, H, XIONG, Y, LIU, Z, BERNE, Serge, HUANG, C, JIA, G
Based on new and existing data on oxygen isotopes, alkenone-surface seawater temperature trends, planktonic foraminifers, lithology, and clay mineral composition of piston cores, a distinct cooling...
Vision-Guided Autonomous Stair Climbing (2004)
The Tactical Mobile Robot (TMR) program calls for autonomous mobility in an urban environment. Among all man-made structures which pose as barriers for a mobile robot, stairs are the most obvious and...
A Portable, Autonomous, Urban Reconnaissance Robot (2004)
Matthies, L., Xiong, Y., Hogg, R., Zhu, D., Rankin, A., Kennedy, B.
Portable mobile robots, in the size class of 20 kg or less, could be extremely valuable as autonomous reconnaissance platforms in urban hostage situations and disaster relief.
Computing depth maps from descent imagery (2004)
Olson, C., Xiong, Y., Matthies, L.
This paper addresses the generation depth maps from the descent images.
Multi-resolution mapping using surface, descent and orbit images (2004)
Olson, C., Matthies, L., Xiong, Y., Li, R., Ma, F.
Our objective is to produce high-accuracy maps of the terrain elevation at landing sites on planetary bodies through the use of all available image data. These technologies are important for...
Xiong, Y., Xing, J.T., Price, W.G.
A generalized power flow mode theory is developed to describe the power-flow behaviour of a dynamical system based on the inherent characteristics of the system?s damping distribution. The...
The Identification and Optimization of the HVAC Partial Subsystems in Intelligent Buildings (2004)
This paper presents on modeling of outside air systems (OAS) and air condition systems (ACS) of intelligent buildings (IB). The open loop identification estimation method is adopted for uncorrelated...
The Identification and Optimization of the HVAC Partial Subsystems in Intelligent Buildings (2004)
This paper presents on modeling of outside air systems (OAS) and air condition systems (ACS) of intelligent buildings (IB). The open loop identification estimation method is adopted for uncorrelated...
Yu, YQ, Xiong, Y, Chan, YS, He, J
In the present study, we investigated the auditory response features of the medial geniculate neurones, using in vivo intracellular recordings in anaesthetized guinea pigs. Of the 76 neurones...
Xiong, Y, Yu, YQ, Chan, YS, He, J
In the present study, we investigated neuronal responses to acoustic stimuli and cortical stimulation in the medial geniculate body (MGB) through in vivo intracellular recordings in anaesthetized...
Hardware Design of a Channel Scheduling Algorithm for (2003)
S. Q. Zheng, Y. Xiong, H. C. Cankaya
For DWDM networks, optical burst switching has been proposed as a combination of the best of optical circuit switching and optical packet switching while avoiding their shortcomings. One of the most...
Xiong, Y., Fang, D. G., Chen, R. S.
Artificial neural network (ANN) plays very important role in microwave engineering. Training a neural network model is the key of neural network technique. The conventional methods for training such...
An in vivo intracellular study of auditory thalamic neurons (2003)
Xiong, Y, Yu, YQ, Fujimoto, K, Chan, YS, He, JF
The intrinsic electrophysiological properties of medial geniculate body (MGB) neurons and their responses to noise bursts/pure tones were examined in the pentobarbital anesthetized guinea pig through...
Percolative conductivity and critical exponents in mixed-valent manganites (2001)
Recent experiments have shown that some colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) materials exhibit a percolation transition. The conductivity exponent varies substantially with or without an external...
We study a discrete contextual stochastic (CS) model for complex and variant patterns like handwritten Chinese characters. Three fundamental problems of using CS models for character recognition are...
This is an extension of a companion paper entitled 'Contextual Modeling of Hand Written Chinese Character for Recognition (I) - A Comparative Study' which is also submitted to this conference for...
Contextual modeling of hand written Chinese character for recognition. I. A comparative study (1997)
A hand-written Chinese character off-line recognizer based on contextual modeling of 2D images has been constructed. Each character is modeled by a collection of regions and their contextual...
Datto, M B, Li, Y, Panus, J F, Howe, D J, Xiong, Y, Wang, X F
The transforming growth factor beta s (TGF-beta s) are a group of multifunctional growth factors which inhibit cell cycle progression in many cell types. The TGF-beta-induced cell cycle arrest has...
Growth-regulated expression of D-type cyclin genes in human diploid fibroblasts.
Won, K A, Xiong, Y, Beach, D, Gilman, M Z
The human CCND1 cyclin D1/PRAD1 gene was previously identified by a genetic screen for G1 cyclin function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and also was identified as the putative BCL1 oncogene. However,...
Xiong, Y, Kuppuswamy, D, Li, Y, Livanos, E M, Hixon, M, White, A, ...
Expression of viral oncoproteins results in the loss of cell cycle checkpoint control and the accumulation of chromosomal abnormalities. Expression of both human papillomavirus type 16 oncoproteins,...
Ow, D W, Xiong, Y, Gu, Q, Shen, S C
ntr (nitrogen regulated) and nif (nitrogen fixation) promoters are structurally similar to each other but bear no resemblance to canonic Escherichia coli promoters. ntr promoters are normally...
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen and p21 are components of multiple cell cycle kinase complexes.
We have recently shown that two proteins, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and p21, are associated with cyclin D. Here we show that PCNA and p21 are common components of a wide variety of...
Terminal cell differentiation involves permanent withdrawal from the cell division cycle. The inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are potential molecules functioning to couple cell cycle...
Isolation and characterization of p19INK4d, a p16-related inhibitor specific to CDK6 and CDK4.
Guan, K L, Jenkins, C W, Li, Y, O'Keefe, C L, Noh, S, Wu, X, ...
Cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 are complexed with many small cellular proteins in vivo. We have isolated cDNA sequences, INK4d, encoding a 19-kDa protein that is associated with CDK6 in several...
Xiong, Y, Burke, W D, Eickbush, T H
Analysis of aberrant ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeats of Bombyx mori resulted in the discovery of a 4.8 kilobase retrotransposable element, Pao. Approximately 40 copies of Pao are present in the genome...
Xiong, Y, Burke, W D, Jakubczak, J L, Eickbush, T H
A fraction of the ribosomal 28S genes in some insects are interrupted at specific sites by insertion elements R1 and R2 (also called Type I and II). These elements contain long open-reading frames...
Repression of cyclin D1: a novel function of MYC.
Philipp, A, Schneider, A, Väsrik, I, Finke, K, Xiong, Y, Beach, D, ...
Constitutive expression of human MYC represses mRNA levels of cyclin D1 in proliferating BALB/c-3T3 fibroblasts. We expressed a series of mutant alleles of MYC and found that downregulation of cyclin...
Two types of insertion elements, R1 and R2 (previously called type I and type II), are known to interrupt the 28S ribosomal genes of several insect species. In the silkmoth, Bombyx mori, each element...
Origin and evolution of retroelements based upon their reverse transcriptase sequences.
To study the evolutionary relationship of reverse transcriptase (RT) containing genetic elements, a phylogenetic tree of 82 retroelements from animals, plants, protozoans and bacteria was...
Xiong, Y, Westhead, E W, Slakey, L L
Three phosphodiesterase (PDE) isoenzymes were separated by Mono Q h.p.l.c. column chromatography from the soluble fraction of a homogenate of pig aortic smooth muscle cells. The first peak of PDE...
Bollag, W B, Xiong, Y, Ducote, J, Harmon, C S
The expression of a fos-lacZ fusion gene was studied in primary mouse epidermal keratinocytes obtained from transgenic mice. This gene construct contains the entire upstream regulatory sequence of...
Anthrax lethal factor inhibition
Shoop, W. L., Xiong, Y., Wiltsie, J., Woods, A., Guo, J., Pivnichny, J. V., ...
The primary virulence factor of Bacillus anthracis is a secreted zinc-dependent metalloprotease toxin known as lethal factor (LF) that is lethal to the host through disruption of signaling pathways,...
Two crystal forms of helix II of Xenopus laevis 5S rRNA with a cytosine bulge.
The crystal structure of r(GCCACCCUG).r(CAGGGUCGGC), helix II of the Xenopus laevis 5S rRNA with a cytosine bulge (underlined), has been determined in two forms at 2.2 A (Form I, space group...
Deng, J, Xiong, Y, Sudarsanakumar, C, Shi, K, Sundaralingam, M
The RNA/DNA 14-mer, (gguauuucgguaCc)2 with consecutive uridine bulges (underlined) on each strand has been determined in two crystal forms, spermine bound (Sp-form) and spermine free (Sp-free). The...
Xiong, Y., Sakaguchi, B., Eickbush, T. H.
The 140-kbp late chorion locus of Bombyx mori strain 703 contains 15 divergently oriented gene pairs encoding the high cysteine (Hc) eggshell proteins. Sequence homology is approximately 91% for the...
Datto, M B, Li, Y, Panus, J F, Howe, D J, Xiong, Y, Wang, X F
The transforming growth factor beta s (TGF-beta s) are a group of multifunctional growth factors which inhibit cell cycle progression in many cell types. The TGF-beta-induced cell cycle arrest has...
Growth-regulated expression of D-type cyclin genes in human diploid fibroblasts.
Won, K A, Xiong, Y, Beach, D, Gilman, M Z
The human CCND1 cyclin D1/PRAD1 gene was previously identified by a genetic screen for G1 cyclin function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and also was identified as the putative BCL1 oncogene. However,...
Xiong, Y, Kuppuswamy, D, Li, Y, Livanos, E M, Hixon, M, White, A, ...
Expression of viral oncoproteins results in the loss of cell cycle checkpoint control and the accumulation of chromosomal abnormalities. Expression of both human papillomavirus type 16 oncoproteins,...
Ow, D W, Xiong, Y, Gu, Q, Shen, S C
ntr (nitrogen regulated) and nif (nitrogen fixation) promoters are structurally similar to each other but bear no resemblance to canonic Escherichia coli promoters. ntr promoters are normally...
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen and p21 are components of multiple cell cycle kinase complexes.
We have recently shown that two proteins, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and p21, are associated with cyclin D. Here we show that PCNA and p21 are common components of a wide variety of...
Terminal cell differentiation involves permanent withdrawal from the cell division cycle. The inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are potential molecules functioning to couple cell cycle...
Isolation and characterization of p19INK4d, a p16-related inhibitor specific to CDK6 and CDK4.
Guan, K L, Jenkins, C W, Li, Y, O'Keefe, C L, Noh, S, Wu, X, ...
Cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 are complexed with many small cellular proteins in vivo. We have isolated cDNA sequences, INK4d, encoding a 19-kDa protein that is associated with CDK6 in several...
Xiong, Y, Burke, W D, Eickbush, T H
Analysis of aberrant ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeats of Bombyx mori resulted in the discovery of a 4.8 kilobase retrotransposable element, Pao. Approximately 40 copies of Pao are present in the genome...
Xiong, Y, Burke, W D, Jakubczak, J L, Eickbush, T H
A fraction of the ribosomal 28S genes in some insects are interrupted at specific sites by insertion elements R1 and R2 (also called Type I and II). These elements contain long open-reading frames...
Repression of cyclin D1: a novel function of MYC.
Philipp, A, Schneider, A, Väsrik, I, Finke, K, Xiong, Y, Beach, D, ...
Constitutive expression of human MYC represses mRNA levels of cyclin D1 in proliferating BALB/c-3T3 fibroblasts. We expressed a series of mutant alleles of MYC and found that downregulation of cyclin...
Two types of insertion elements, R1 and R2 (previously called type I and type II), are known to interrupt the 28S ribosomal genes of several insect species. In the silkmoth, Bombyx mori, each element...
Origin and evolution of retroelements based upon their reverse transcriptase sequences.
To study the evolutionary relationship of reverse transcriptase (RT) containing genetic elements, a phylogenetic tree of 82 retroelements from animals, plants, protozoans and bacteria was...
Xiong, Y, Westhead, E W, Slakey, L L
Three phosphodiesterase (PDE) isoenzymes were separated by Mono Q h.p.l.c. column chromatography from the soluble fraction of a homogenate of pig aortic smooth muscle cells. The first peak of PDE...
Bollag, W B, Xiong, Y, Ducote, J, Harmon, C S
The expression of a fos-lacZ fusion gene was studied in primary mouse epidermal keratinocytes obtained from transgenic mice. This gene construct contains the entire upstream regulatory sequence of...
Anthrax lethal factor inhibition
Shoop, W. L., Xiong, Y., Wiltsie, J., Woods, A., Guo, J., Pivnichny, J. V., ...
The primary virulence factor of Bacillus anthracis is a secreted zinc-dependent metalloprotease toxin known as lethal factor (LF) that is lethal to the host through disruption of signaling pathways,...
Xiong, Y., Sakaguchi, B., Eickbush, T. H.
The 140-kbp late chorion locus of Bombyx mori strain 703 contains 15 divergently oriented gene pairs encoding the high cysteine (Hc) eggshell proteins. Sequence homology is approximately 91% for the...
Two crystal forms of helix II of Xenopus laevis 5S rRNA with a cytosine bulge.
The crystal structure of r(GCCACCCUG).r(CAGGGUCGGC), helix II of the Xenopus laevis 5S rRNA with a cytosine bulge (underlined), has been determined in two forms at 2.2 A (Form I, space group...
Deng, J, Xiong, Y, Sudarsanakumar, C, Shi, K, Sundaralingam, M
The RNA/DNA 14-mer, (gguauuucgguaCc)2 with consecutive uridine bulges (underlined) on each strand has been determined in two crystal forms, spermine bound (Sp-form) and spermine free (Sp-free). The...
Purification and crystallization of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21.
Mayrose, D. R., Nichols, M. A., Xiong, Y., Ke, H.
p21, a universal inhibitor of mammalian cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK), regulates cell cycle progression by forming various distinct protein complexes with cyclins, CDKs, and the proliferating cell...
Xiong, Y., Juminaga, D., Swapna, G. V., Wedemeyer, W. J., Scheraga, H. A., Montelione, G. T.
Proline peptide group isomerization can result in kinetic barriers in protein folding. In particular, the cis proline peptide conformation at Tyr92-Pro93 of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A (RNase A)...