Based on the different hydrophobicities of the intermediates of proteins the various conformational intermediates of the refolding of a-amylase originally denatured with 8.0 mol/L urea solution were separated with hi...Based on the different hydrophobicities of the intermediates of proteins the various conformational intermediates of the refolding of a-amylase originally denatured with 8.0 mol/L urea solution were separated with high performance hydrophobic interaction chromatography(HPHIC). Compared to the separation of the same intermediates with weak anion exchange chromatography and size-exclusion chromatography the result obtained with HPHIC is the best It would be expected that HPHIC may be a strongly potential tool to separate intermediates of some proteins which cannot be, or cannot completely be refolded by HPHIC.展开更多
The renaturation and purification of recombinant human proinsulin (rh-proinsulin) expressed in E. coli with the unit of simultaneous renaturation and purification of protein (USRPP) in semi-preparative scale was studi...The renaturation and purification of recombinant human proinsulin (rh-proinsulin) expressed in E. coli with the unit of simultaneous renaturation and purification of protein (USRPP) in semi-preparative scale was studied. The result shows that rh-proinsulin extracted with 8.0 mol/L urea can be renatured and purified simultaneously in 45 minutes with the USRPP (1050 mm ID). The purity of rh-proinsulin was found to be more than 90% and the mass recovery to be more than 80%. The renaturation effect of rh-proinsulin with the USRPP was tested by enzyme cleavage for obtaining insulin. In addition, the result was further confirmed with RPLC, SDS-PAGE electrophoresis, and MALDI-TOF, respectively.展开更多
The contributions of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) to the renatured efficiency of a-chymotrypsin were investigated and compared with each other. The maximum increments of bioactivity...The contributions of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) to the renatured efficiency of a-chymotrypsin were investigated and compared with each other. The maximum increments of bioactivity recovery of a-Chy were found to be 25.1% for THFA, 10.4% for PEG, respectively. The experimental results indicated that the denaturant solution containing THFA contributed more to the renaturation of a-Chy in high performance hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HPHIC) than that containing PEG, when the concentration of THFA was 3.2%, the bioactivity recovery of a-Chy is the highest.展开更多
Complex problem solving requires diverse expertise and multiple techniques. In order to solve such problems, complex multi-agent systems that include both of human experts and autonomous agents are required in many ap...Complex problem solving requires diverse expertise and multiple techniques. In order to solve such problems, complex multi-agent systems that include both of human experts and autonomous agents are required in many application domains. Most complex multi-agent systems work in open domains and include various heterogeneous agents. Due to the heterogeneity of agents and dynamic features of working environments, expertise and capabilities of agents might not be well estimated and presented in these systems. Therefore, how to discover useful knowledge from human and autonomous experts, make more accurate estimation for experts' capabilities and find out suitable expert(s) to solve incoming problems ("Expert Mining") are important research issues in the area of multi-agent system. In this paper, we introduce an ontology-based approach for knowledge and expert mining in hybrid multi-agent systems. In this research, ontologies are hired to describe knowledge of the system. Knowledge and expert mining processes are executed as the system handles incoming problems. In this approach, we embed more self-learning and self-adjusting abilities in multi-agent systems, so as to help in discovering knowledge of heterogeneous experts of multi-agent systems.展开更多
Negative impacts produced by transportation sector have increased in parallel with the increase of urban mobility. In this paper, we introduce GreenCommute, a novel recommendation system which can facilitate commuters...Negative impacts produced by transportation sector have increased in parallel with the increase of urban mobility. In this paper, we introduce GreenCommute, a novel recommendation system which can facilitate commuters to take public fi'iendly commute options, while provide support to alleviate the external cost in society, such as traffic pollution, congestion and accidents. In the meanwhile, a rewarding mechanism for persuading commuters is embedded in the proposed approach for balancing the conflict between personal needs and social aims. The allocation of reward values also takes users' influential degrees in the social network into consideration. Experimental results show that the GreenCommute can promote public friendly commute options more effectively in comparison to the traditional recommendation system.展开更多
Recommendation systems have been extensively studied over the last decade in various domains. It has been considered a powerful tool for assisting business owners in promoting sales and helping users with decision-mak...Recommendation systems have been extensively studied over the last decade in various domains. It has been considered a powerful tool for assisting business owners in promoting sales and helping users with decision-making when given numerous choices. In this paper, we propose a novel Graph-based Context-Aware Recommendation Systems with Knowledge Graph to analyse and predict users’ behaviours, i.e., making recommendations based on historical events and their implicit associations. The model incorporates contextual information extracted from both users’ historical behaviours and events relations, where the contexts have been modelled as knowledge graphs. By leveraging the advantages offered from the knowledge graph, events dependencies and their subtle relations can be established and have been introduced in the recommendation process. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can outperform the state-of-the-art algorithms and achieve more accurate recommendations.展开更多
Ionic liquids(ILs) immobilized on silica as novel high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)stationary phases have attracted considerable attention. However, it has not been applied to protein separation. In thi...Ionic liquids(ILs) immobilized on silica as novel high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)stationary phases have attracted considerable attention. However, it has not been applied to protein separation. In this paper, N-methylimidazolium IL-modified silica-based stationary phase(Silpr Mim)was prepared and investigated as a novel multi-interaction stationary phase charged positively for protein separation. The results indicate that all of the basic proteins tested cannot be absorbed on this novel stationary phase, whereas all of the acidic proteins tested can be retained, and the baseline separation of eight kinds of acidic protein standards can be achieved when performed in reversed phase/ion-exchange chromatography(RPLC/IEC) mode. Compared with commonly used commercial octadecylated silica(ODS) column, the novel stationary phase can show selectivity and good resolution to acidic proteins, which has a promising application in the separation and analyses of acidic proteins from the complex samples in proteomics. In addition, the chromatographic behavior of proteins, the effect of the ligand structure and the retention mechanism on this stationary phase were also investigated.展开更多
Social media have dramatically changed the mode of information dissemination.Various models and algorithms have been developed to model information diffusion and address the influence maximization problem in complex s...Social media have dramatically changed the mode of information dissemination.Various models and algorithms have been developed to model information diffusion and address the influence maximization problem in complex social networks.However,it appears difficult for state-of-the-art models to interpret complex and reversible real interactive networks.In this paper,we propose a novel influence diffusion model,i.e.,the Operator-Based Model(OBM),by leveraging the advantages offered from the heat diffusion based model and the agent-based model.The OBM improves the performance of simulated dissemination by considering the complex user context in the operator of the heat diffusion based model.The experiment obtains a high similarity of the OBM simulated trend to the real-world diffusion process by use of the dynamic time warping method.Furthermore,a novel influence maximization algorithm,i.e.,the Global Topical Support Greedy algorithm(GTS-Greedy algorithm),is proposed corresponding to the OBM.The experimental results demonstrate its promising performance by comparing it against other classic algorithms.展开更多
Al-enabled system simulation and modelling has become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different do-mains,such as physics,astrophysics,chemistry,biology,economics,engineering and social scien...Al-enabled system simulation and modelling has become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different do-mains,such as physics,astrophysics,chemistry,biology,economics,engineering and social science.A complex system is featured with a large number of interacting components(agents,processes,etc.),whose aggregate activities are nonlinear and self-organized.Complex systems are hard to be simulated or mod-elled by using traditional computational approaches due to complex relationships among system components,distributed features of resources,and dynamics of environments.Meanwhile,agent and multi-agent systems have demonstrated advantages and great potentials in modelling and simulating complex systems.展开更多
Superficially porous core-shell silica microspheres (CSSMs) have been a great success for the fast separation of small molecules and proteins in recent years. In this paper, the CSSMs were synthesized by an improved...Superficially porous core-shell silica microspheres (CSSMs) have been a great success for the fast separation of small molecules and proteins in recent years. In this paper, the CSSMs were synthesized by an improved polymerization-induced colloid aggregation (PICA) method using urea-formaldehyde polymers as the templates. The agglomeration of the functionalized silica core was avoided by the surface modification through reflux with ureidopropyltrimethoxysilane in the neutral ethanol solution at 80 ~C, and the secondary nucleation of the silica nanoparticles during the preparation process could also be inhibited via the optimization of the reaction conditions, such as pH, temperature, colloidal silica sol concentration and the reaction time. The controllable shell thickness and pore size of the synthesized monodisperse CSSMs were successfully obtained by adjusting the weight ratio of silica core/colloidal silica sol and the particle size of colloidal silica sol, respectively. The C18-modified CSSMs with different pore sizes were used to separate small solutes and proteins. The higher efficient separation and relatively low back pressure of the synthesized core-shefi column demonstrate that the CSSMs have a great ootential aoolication for fast HPLC展开更多
Computer based modelling and simulation has become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different domains, such as physics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, economics, engineering and social sci...Computer based modelling and simulation has become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different domains, such as physics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, economics, engineering and social science. A complex system is featured with a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.), whose aggregate activities are nonlinear and self-organized. Complex systems are hard to be simulated or modelled by using traditional computational approaches due to the complex relationships of components and distributed features of resources, and dynamic work environments. Meanwhile, smart systems such as multi-agent systems have demonstrated advantages and great potentials in modelling and simulating complex systems.展开更多
文摘Based on the different hydrophobicities of the intermediates of proteins the various conformational intermediates of the refolding of a-amylase originally denatured with 8.0 mol/L urea solution were separated with high performance hydrophobic interaction chromatography(HPHIC). Compared to the separation of the same intermediates with weak anion exchange chromatography and size-exclusion chromatography the result obtained with HPHIC is the best It would be expected that HPHIC may be a strongly potential tool to separate intermediates of some proteins which cannot be, or cannot completely be refolded by HPHIC.
文摘The renaturation and purification of recombinant human proinsulin (rh-proinsulin) expressed in E. coli with the unit of simultaneous renaturation and purification of protein (USRPP) in semi-preparative scale was studied. The result shows that rh-proinsulin extracted with 8.0 mol/L urea can be renatured and purified simultaneously in 45 minutes with the USRPP (1050 mm ID). The purity of rh-proinsulin was found to be more than 90% and the mass recovery to be more than 80%. The renaturation effect of rh-proinsulin with the USRPP was tested by enzyme cleavage for obtaining insulin. In addition, the result was further confirmed with RPLC, SDS-PAGE electrophoresis, and MALDI-TOF, respectively.
基金These projects No. 39880003 and 20175016 were supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘The contributions of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (THFA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) to the renatured efficiency of a-chymotrypsin were investigated and compared with each other. The maximum increments of bioactivity recovery of a-Chy were found to be 25.1% for THFA, 10.4% for PEG, respectively. The experimental results indicated that the denaturant solution containing THFA contributed more to the renaturation of a-Chy in high performance hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HPHIC) than that containing PEG, when the concentration of THFA was 3.2%, the bioactivity recovery of a-Chy is the highest.
文摘Complex problem solving requires diverse expertise and multiple techniques. In order to solve such problems, complex multi-agent systems that include both of human experts and autonomous agents are required in many application domains. Most complex multi-agent systems work in open domains and include various heterogeneous agents. Due to the heterogeneity of agents and dynamic features of working environments, expertise and capabilities of agents might not be well estimated and presented in these systems. Therefore, how to discover useful knowledge from human and autonomous experts, make more accurate estimation for experts' capabilities and find out suitable expert(s) to solve incoming problems ("Expert Mining") are important research issues in the area of multi-agent system. In this paper, we introduce an ontology-based approach for knowledge and expert mining in hybrid multi-agent systems. In this research, ontologies are hired to describe knowledge of the system. Knowledge and expert mining processes are executed as the system handles incoming problems. In this approach, we embed more self-learning and self-adjusting abilities in multi-agent systems, so as to help in discovering knowledge of heterogeneous experts of multi-agent systems.
文摘Negative impacts produced by transportation sector have increased in parallel with the increase of urban mobility. In this paper, we introduce GreenCommute, a novel recommendation system which can facilitate commuters to take public fi'iendly commute options, while provide support to alleviate the external cost in society, such as traffic pollution, congestion and accidents. In the meanwhile, a rewarding mechanism for persuading commuters is embedded in the proposed approach for balancing the conflict between personal needs and social aims. The allocation of reward values also takes users' influential degrees in the social network into consideration. Experimental results show that the GreenCommute can promote public friendly commute options more effectively in comparison to the traditional recommendation system.
文摘Recommendation systems have been extensively studied over the last decade in various domains. It has been considered a powerful tool for assisting business owners in promoting sales and helping users with decision-making when given numerous choices. In this paper, we propose a novel Graph-based Context-Aware Recommendation Systems with Knowledge Graph to analyse and predict users’ behaviours, i.e., making recommendations based on historical events and their implicit associations. The model incorporates contextual information extracted from both users’ historical behaviours and events relations, where the contexts have been modelled as knowledge graphs. By leveraging the advantages offered from the knowledge graph, events dependencies and their subtle relations can be established and have been introduced in the recommendation process. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can outperform the state-of-the-art algorithms and achieve more accurate recommendations.
基金supported by the National 863 Program(No.2006AA02Z227)Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(No.2011JZ002)+1 种基金the Foundation of Key Laboratory in Shaanxi Province(Nos.2010JS103,11JS097,14JS098)Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Co-ordinating innovation projects(No.2013SZS18-K01)
文摘Ionic liquids(ILs) immobilized on silica as novel high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC)stationary phases have attracted considerable attention. However, it has not been applied to protein separation. In this paper, N-methylimidazolium IL-modified silica-based stationary phase(Silpr Mim)was prepared and investigated as a novel multi-interaction stationary phase charged positively for protein separation. The results indicate that all of the basic proteins tested cannot be absorbed on this novel stationary phase, whereas all of the acidic proteins tested can be retained, and the baseline separation of eight kinds of acidic protein standards can be achieved when performed in reversed phase/ion-exchange chromatography(RPLC/IEC) mode. Compared with commonly used commercial octadecylated silica(ODS) column, the novel stationary phase can show selectivity and good resolution to acidic proteins, which has a promising application in the separation and analyses of acidic proteins from the complex samples in proteomics. In addition, the chromatographic behavior of proteins, the effect of the ligand structure and the retention mechanism on this stationary phase were also investigated.
文摘Social media have dramatically changed the mode of information dissemination.Various models and algorithms have been developed to model information diffusion and address the influence maximization problem in complex social networks.However,it appears difficult for state-of-the-art models to interpret complex and reversible real interactive networks.In this paper,we propose a novel influence diffusion model,i.e.,the Operator-Based Model(OBM),by leveraging the advantages offered from the heat diffusion based model and the agent-based model.The OBM improves the performance of simulated dissemination by considering the complex user context in the operator of the heat diffusion based model.The experiment obtains a high similarity of the OBM simulated trend to the real-world diffusion process by use of the dynamic time warping method.Furthermore,a novel influence maximization algorithm,i.e.,the Global Topical Support Greedy algorithm(GTS-Greedy algorithm),is proposed corresponding to the OBM.The experimental results demonstrate its promising performance by comparing it against other classic algorithms.
基金supported by the National 863 Program(No2006AA02Z227)the Natural Science Fondation of Shaanxi Province(No2011JZ002)the National Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Science(NoJ0830417)
文摘Al-enabled system simulation and modelling has become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different do-mains,such as physics,astrophysics,chemistry,biology,economics,engineering and social science.A complex system is featured with a large number of interacting components(agents,processes,etc.),whose aggregate activities are nonlinear and self-organized.Complex systems are hard to be simulated or mod-elled by using traditional computational approaches due to complex relationships among system components,distributed features of resources,and dynamics of environments.Meanwhile,agent and multi-agent systems have demonstrated advantages and great potentials in modelling and simulating complex systems.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21545007,21605122)the Foundation of Key Laboratory in Shaanxi Province(Nos. 2010JS103, 11JS097, 15JS115)
文摘Superficially porous core-shell silica microspheres (CSSMs) have been a great success for the fast separation of small molecules and proteins in recent years. In this paper, the CSSMs were synthesized by an improved polymerization-induced colloid aggregation (PICA) method using urea-formaldehyde polymers as the templates. The agglomeration of the functionalized silica core was avoided by the surface modification through reflux with ureidopropyltrimethoxysilane in the neutral ethanol solution at 80 ~C, and the secondary nucleation of the silica nanoparticles during the preparation process could also be inhibited via the optimization of the reaction conditions, such as pH, temperature, colloidal silica sol concentration and the reaction time. The controllable shell thickness and pore size of the synthesized monodisperse CSSMs were successfully obtained by adjusting the weight ratio of silica core/colloidal silica sol and the particle size of colloidal silica sol, respectively. The C18-modified CSSMs with different pore sizes were used to separate small solutes and proteins. The higher efficient separation and relatively low back pressure of the synthesized core-shefi column demonstrate that the CSSMs have a great ootential aoolication for fast HPLC
文摘Computer based modelling and simulation has become useful tools to facilitate humans to understand systems in different domains, such as physics, astrophysics, chemistry, biology, economics, engineering and social science. A complex system is featured with a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.), whose aggregate activities are nonlinear and self-organized. Complex systems are hard to be simulated or modelled by using traditional computational approaches due to the complex relationships of components and distributed features of resources, and dynamic work environments. Meanwhile, smart systems such as multi-agent systems have demonstrated advantages and great potentials in modelling and simulating complex systems.