Yongqun He

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Affiliation: University of Michigan
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi PHIDIAS: a pathogen-host interaction data integration and analysis system
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, 1150 W Medical Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Genome Biol 8:R150. 2007
  2. ncbi Molecular targets for rapid identification of Brucella spp
    Vladyslava G Ratushna
    Department of Computer Science, College of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
    BMC Microbiol 6:13. 2006
  3. ncbi Ontology-based Brucella vaccine literature indexing and systematic analysis of gene-vaccine association network
    Junguk Hur
    Bioinformatics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    BMC Immunol 12:49. 2011
  4. ncbi OntoFox: web-based support for ontology reuse
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    BMC Res Notes 3:175. 2010
  5. ncbi Bioinformatics analysis of Brucella vaccines and vaccine targets using VIOLIN
    Yongqun He
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Immunome Res 6:S5. 2010
  6. ncbi Pathobiology and management of laboratory rodents administered CDC category A agents
    Yongqun He
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA
    Comp Med 57:18-32. 2007
  7. ncbi Brucella melitensis triggers time-dependent modulation of apoptosis and down-regulation of mitochondrion-associated gene expression in mouse macrophages
    Yongqun He
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 018 Animal Research Facility, 1150 W Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Infect Immun 74:5035-46. 2006
  8. ncbi Brucellosis Ontology (IDOBRU) as an extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology
    Yu Lin
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Biomed Semantics 2:9. 2011
  9. ncbi Proinflammatory caspase-2-mediated macrophage cell death induced by a rough attenuated Brucella suis strain
    Fang Chen
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Infect Immun 79:2460-9. 2011
  10. ncbi Bayesian network expansion identifies new ROS and biofilm regulators
    Andrew P Hodges
    Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e9513. 2010

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Publications26

  1. ncbi PHIDIAS: a pathogen-host interaction data integration and analysis system
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, 1150 W Medical Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Genome Biol 8:R150. 2007
    ..In addition, PHIDIAS allows submission, search and analysis of PHI genes and molecular networks curated from peer-reviewed literature. PHIDIAS is publicly available at http://www.phidias.us...
  2. ncbi Molecular targets for rapid identification of Brucella spp
    Vladyslava G Ratushna
    Department of Computer Science, College of Information Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
    BMC Microbiol 6:13. 2006
    ..We then screened a set of differentiating genes against classical Brucella biovars and showed the applicability of these regions in the design of diagnostic tests...
  3. ncbi Ontology-based Brucella vaccine literature indexing and systematic analysis of gene-vaccine association network
    Junguk Hur
    Bioinformatics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    BMC Immunol 12:49. 2011
    ..As a test case, we have examined vaccines for Brucella, the causative agent of brucellosis in humans and animals...
  4. ncbi OntoFox: web-based support for ontology reuse
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    BMC Res Notes 3:175. 2010
    ..abstract:..
  5. ncbi Bioinformatics analysis of Brucella vaccines and vaccine targets using VIOLIN
    Yongqun He
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Immunome Res 6:S5. 2010
    ..The use of VIOLIN provides a general approach that can be applied for analyses of vaccines against other pathogens and infection diseases...
  6. ncbi Pathobiology and management of laboratory rodents administered CDC category A agents
    Yongqun He
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA
    Comp Med 57:18-32. 2007
    ....
  7. ncbi Brucella melitensis triggers time-dependent modulation of apoptosis and down-regulation of mitochondrion-associated gene expression in mouse macrophages
    Yongqun He
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 018 Animal Research Facility, 1150 W Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Infect Immun 74:5035-46. 2006
    ..melitensis 16M appears to inhibit apoptosis of macrophages by blocking release of cytochrome c and production of reactive oxygen species in the mitochondria, thus preventing activation of caspase cascades...
  8. ncbi Brucellosis Ontology (IDOBRU) as an extension of the Infectious Disease Ontology
    Yu Lin
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Biomed Semantics 2:9. 2011
    ..abstract:..
  9. ncbi Proinflammatory caspase-2-mediated macrophage cell death induced by a rough attenuated Brucella suis strain
    Fang Chen
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Infect Immun 79:2460-9. 2011
    ..This unique cell death differs from apoptosis, which is not proinflammatory. It is also different from classical pyroptosis, which is caspase-1 mediated...
  10. ncbi Bayesian network expansion identifies new ROS and biofilm regulators
    Andrew P Hodges
    Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e9513. 2010
    ..The presently reported BN+1 expansion method is a generalized approach applicable to the characterization and expansion of other biological pathways and living systems...
  11. ncbi Protegen: a web-based protective antigen database and analysis system
    Brian Yang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 39:D1073-8. 2011
    ..Protegen is publically available at http://www.violinet.org/protegen...
  12. ncbi VIOLIN: vaccine investigation and online information network
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 36:D923-8. 2008
    ..VIOLIN is publicly available at http://www.violinet.org...
  13. ncbi miniTUBA: medical inference by network integration of temporal data using Bayesian analysis
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    Bioinformatics 23:2423-32. 2007
    ..No software pipeline currently exists for interpretation and inference of dynamic Bayesian networks learned from biomedical and clinical data...
  14. ncbi CRCView: a web server for analyzing and visualizing microarray gene expression data using model-based clustering
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
    Bioinformatics 23:1843-5. 2007
    ..It allows flexible input data format, rich graphical illustration as well as integrated GO term based annotation/interpretation of clustering results. Availability: http://helab.bioinformatics.med.umich.edu/crcview/...
  15. ncbi Vaxign: the first web-based vaccine design program for reverse vaccinology and applications for vaccine development
    Yongqun He
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Biomed Biotechnol 2010:297505. 2010
    ..Our results indicate that Vaxign is an accurate and efficient vaccine design program...
  16. ncbi Presence of putative repeat-in-toxin gene tosA in Escherichia coli predicts successful colonization of the urinary tract
    Patrick D Vigil
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    MBio 2:e00066-11. 2011
    ..coli isolates regardless of source. Rapid identification of uropathogenic strains of E. coli may aid in the development of therapeutic and preventive therapies...
  17. ncbi Emerging vaccine informatics
    Yongqun He
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, 48109, USA
    J Biomed Biotechnol 2010:218590. 2010
    ..Computational literature mining and databases effectively process, mine, and store large amounts of vaccine literature and data. Vaccine Ontology (VO) has been initiated to integrate various vaccine data and support automated reasoning...
  18. ncbi Group XV phospholipase A?, a lysosomal phospholipase A?
    James A Shayman
    Nephrology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, USA
    Prog Lipid Res 50:1-13. 2011
    ..In addition, older LPLA?(-/-) mice develop a phenotype similar to human autoimmune disease. These observations indicate that LPLA? may play a primary role in phospholipid homeostasis, drug toxicity, and host defense...
  19. ncbi BBP: Brucella genome annotation with literature mining and curation
    Zuoshuang Xiang
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    BMC Bioinformatics 7:347. 2006
    ..It is further hypothesized that literature-based Brucella gene annotation would increase understanding of complicated Brucella pathogenesis mechanisms...
  20. ncbi Mining of vaccine-associated IFN-? gene interaction networks using the Vaccine Ontology
    Arzucan Ozgür
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Biomed Semantics 2:S8. 2011
    ..The Vaccine Ontology (VO) contains a hierarchy of vaccine names. It is hypothesized that the application of VO will enhance the prediction of IFN-? and vaccine-mediated gene interaction network...
  21. ncbi Caspase-2 mediated apoptotic and necrotic murine macrophage cell death induced by rough Brucella abortus
    Fang Chen
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 4:e6830. 2009
    ..The biological relevance of Brucella O antigen and caspase-2-mediated macrophage cell death in Brucella pathogenesis and protective Brucella immunity is discussed...
  22. ncbi Vaxjo: a web-based vaccine adjuvant database and its application for analysis of vaccine adjuvants and their uses in vaccine development
    Samantha Sayers
    Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Biomed Biotechnol 2012:831486. 2012
    ..To support data exchange, the information of vaccine adjuvants is stored in the Vaccine Ontology (VO) in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) format...
  23. ncbi Literature-based discovery of IFN-gamma and vaccine-mediated gene interaction networks
    Arzucan Ozgür
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    J Biomed Biotechnol 2010:426479. 2010
    ..Literature evidence was manually curated for the IFN-gamma relatedness of 56 genes and vaccine development relatedness for 52 genes. This study also generated many new hypotheses worth further experimental studies...
  24. ncbi Using epitope predictions to evaluate efficacy and population coverage of the Mtb72f vaccine for tuberculosis
    Lucy A McNamara
    Department of Epidemiology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
    BMC Immunol 11:18. 2010
    ..The present study assesses Mtb72f's predicted efficacy in people with different DRB1 genotypes to predict whether the vaccine will protect against diverse clinical strains of M. tuberculosis in a diverse host population...
  25. ncbi PIML: the Pathogen Information Markup Language
    Yongqun He
    Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1880 Pratt Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24061 0477, USA
    Bioinformatics 21:116-21. 2005
    ....
  26. ncbi Recombinant Ochrobactrum anthropi expressing Brucella abortus Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase protects mice against B. abortus infection only after switching of immune responses to Th1 type
    Yongqun He
    Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0342, USA
    Infect Immun 70:2535-43. 2002
    ..anthropi strain 49237 and the recombinant O. anthropi strain 49237SOD induced protection in mice. However, the protection conferred by strain 49237SOD was significantly better than that induced by the parental strain, 49237...

Research Grants1

  1. GENE EXPRESSION IN BRUCELLA-INFECTED MACROPHAGES
    Yongqun He; Fiscal Year: 2005
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