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• Pollination: self-fertilization strategy in an orchid.

  Mating in flowering plants normally relies on animals, wind, gravity or secretion to convey pollen grains from the male (anther) to the female (stigma…

  Authors: Ke-Wei Liu, Zhong-Jian Liu, LaiQiang Huang, Li-Qiang Li, Li-Jun Chen, Guang-Da Tang

  Source: Nature. 2006 Jun 22

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• The structural basis for activation of plant immunity by bacterial effector protein AvrPto.

  Pathogenic microbes use effectors to enhance susceptibility in host plants. However, plants have evolved a sophisticated immune system to detect these…

  Authors: Weiman Xing, Yan Zou, Qun Liu, Jianing Liu, Xi Luo, Qingqiu Huang, She Chen, Lihuang Zhu, Ruchang Bi, Quan Hao,…

  Source: Nature. 2007 Sep 13

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• Genetic deficiency and pharmacological stabilization of mast cells reduce diet-induced obesity and diabetes in mice.

  Although mast cell functions have classically been related to allergic responses, recent studies indicate that these cells contribute to other common …

  Authors: Jian Liu, Adeline Divoux, Jiusong Sun, Jie Zhang, Karine Clément, Jonathan N Glickman, Galina K Sukhova, Paul J Wolters, Juan Du, Cem Z Gorgun,…

  Source: Nature medicine. 2009 Aug

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• Mechanochemical crosstalk during endocytic vesicle formation.

  Membrane curvature has emerged as a key regulatory factor in endocytic vesicle formation. From a theoretical perspective, we summarize recent progress…

  Authors: Jian Liu, Yidi Sun, George F Oster, David G Drubin

  Source: Current opinion in cell biology. 2010 Feb

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• Is femur length the key height component in risk prediction of type 2 diabetes among adults?

  OBJECTIVE: To examine the diabetes risk association with femur length, standing height, and height without femur length (HWFL) (HWFL = standing height…

  Authors: Jian Liu, Hongzhuan Tan, Brian Jeynes

  Source: Diabetes care. 2009 Apr

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• Design of biologically active heparan sulfate and heparin using an enzyme-based approach.

  Covering: up to August 2008. Heparan sulfate (HS) is a highly sulfated polysaccharide that plays essential physiological and pathophysiological roles.…

  Authors: Sherket Peterson, Amber Frick, Jian Liu

  Source: Natural product reports. 2009 May

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• Thermal decay of rhodopsin: role of hydrogen bonds in thermal isomerization of 11-cis retinal in the binding site and hydrolysis of protonated Schiff base.

  Although thermal stability of the G protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin is directly related to its extremely low dark noise level and has recently gene…

  Authors: Jian Liu, Monica Yun Liu, Jennifer B Nguyen, Aditi Bhagat, Victoria Mooney, Elsa C Y Yan

  Source: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2009 Jul 1

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• Cathepsin L activity controls adipogenesis and glucose tolerance.

  Cysteine proteases play an important part in human pathobiology. This report shows the participation of cathepsin L (CatL) in adipogenesis and glucose…

  Authors: Min Yang, Yaou Zhang, Jiehong Pan, Jiusong Sun, Jian Liu, Peter Libby, Galina K Sukhova, Alessandro Doria, Nobuhiko Katunuma, Odile D Peroni,…

  Source: Nature cell biology. 2007 Aug

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• Recent progress and applications in glycosaminoglycan and heparin research.

  Heparin, the focus of this review, is a crucially important anticoagulant drug produced from animal sources, which was contaminated last year leading …

  Authors: Tatiana N Laremore, Fuming Zhang, Jonathan S Dordick, Jian Liu, Robert J Linhardt

  Source: Current opinion in chemical biology. 2009 Dec

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• Simultaneous Transmission Mode Collision-Induced Dissociation and Ion/Ion Reactions for Top-Down Protein Identification/Characterization Using a Quadrupole/Time-of-Flight Tandem Mass Spectrometer.

  Simultaneous transmission mode collision-induced dissociation (CID) and ion/ion proton transfer reactions have been implemented on a quadrupole/time-o…

  Authors: Jian Liu, Teng-Yi Huang, Scott A McLuckey

  Source: Analytical chemistry. 2009 Mar 15

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