Several important computer vision tasks have recently been formulated as lowrank problems, with the Low-Rank Representation method (LRR) being one recent and prominent formulation. Although the method is framed as a convex program, available solutions to this program are inherently sequential and costly, thus limiting its scalability. In this work, we explore the effectiveness of a recently int...

Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) treatment elicits induced resistance (IR) against pests and diseases in Norway spruce (Picea abies). We recently demonstrated using mRNA-seq that this MeJA-IR is associated with both a prolonged upregulation of inducible defenses defense priming. Gene expression can be regulated at transcriptional post-transcriptional level by small RNAs, including microRNAs (miRNAs). He...

Plant immune recognition of pests and pathogens relies on a germline-encoded repertoire innate receptors. In recent years, many examples cell surface receptors in the large gene family receptor-like proteins (RLPs) have been shown to govern specificity. RLPs lack canonical intracellular kinase domain associated with receptor kinases, but instead transduce signaling through interactions co-recep...

Like animals, plants sense bacterial pathogens through surface-localized pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat proteins (NB-LRR) and trigger defense responses. Many plant-pathogenic bacteria secrete a large repertoire of effector proteins into host cells to modulate host responses, enabling successful infection and multiplication in plants...

Slit is a repellent axon guidance cue produced by the midline glia in Drosophila that is required to regulate the formation of contralateral projections and the lateral position of longitudinal tracts. Four sequence motifs comprise the structure of Slit: a leucine-rich repeat (LRR), epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeats, a laminin-like globular (G)-domain, and a cysteine domain. Here we de...

The phytopathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum encodes type III effectors, called GALA proteins, which contain F-box and LRR domains. The GALA LRRs do not perfectly fit any of the previously described LRR subfamilies. By applying protein sequence analysis and structural prediction, we clarify this ambiguous case of LRR classification and assign GALA-LRRs to CC-LRR subfamily. We demonstrat...

Polycystin-1, the product of the PKD1 gene, is a membrane-bound multidomain protein with a unique structure and a molecular weight of approximately 460 kD. The purpose of this study is to investigate the binding of the cystein-flanked leucine-rich repeats (LRR) of polycystin-1 to extracellular matrix (ECM) components. These interactions may play a role in normal renal development as well as the...

The low-rank representation (LRR) was presented recently and showed effective and robust for subspace segmentation. This paper presents a LRR-based discriminative projection method (LRR-DP) for robust feature extraction, by virtue of the underlying low-rank structure of data represesntation revealed by LRR. LRR-DP seeks a linear transformation such that in the transformed space, the betweenlarg...

PURPOSE To evaluate the risk of locoregional recurrence (LRR) associated with locoregional treatment of women with primary breast cancer tumors negative for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (triple-negative breast cancer [TNBC]). PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients diagnosed with TNBC were identified from a cancer registry in a single institutio...