Ion channel function of polycystin‐2/polycystin‐1 heteromer revealed by structure‐guided mutagenesis
Mutations in polycystin‐1 (PC1) or polycystin‐2 (PC2) cause autosomal‐dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). We generated a novel gain‐of‐function PC2/PC1 heteromeric ion channel by mutating pore‐blocking residues. Moreover, we demonstrated that PC2 will preferentially assemble with PC1 to form heteromeric complexes when PC1 is co‐expressed ...
Tobias Staudner+7 more
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Pulling an intruder from a granular material: a novel depinning experiment
Two-dimensional impact experiments by Clark et al. [2] identified the source of inertial drag to be caused by ‘collisions’ with a latent force network, leading to large fluctuations of the force experienced by the impactor.
Zhang Yue, Behringer Robert
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Gamma Oscillations Facilitate Effective Learning in Excitatory-Inhibitory Balanced Neural Circuits
Gamma oscillation in neural circuits is believed to associate with effective learning in the brain, while the underlying mechanism is unclear. This paper aims to study how spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), a typical mechanism of learning, with ...
Kwan Tung Li+2 more
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Exact analytical soliton solutions of $N$-component coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations with arbitrary nonlinear parameters [PDF]
Exact analytical soliton solutions play an important role in soliton fields. Soliton solutions were obtained with some special constraints on the nonlinear parameters in nonlinear coupled systems, but they usually do not holds in real physical systems.
arxiv
Resonances and resonant frequencies for a class of nonlinear systems [PDF]
Resonant phenomena for a class of nonlinear systems, which can be described by a SDOF model with a polynomial type nonlinear stiffness, are investigated using Nonlinear Output Frequency Response Functions (NOFRFs).
Billings, S.A., Lang, Z.Q., Peng, Z.K.
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Linearization and input-output decoupling for general nonlinear systems [PDF]
Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the linearization and input decoupling (by state feedback) of general nonlinear systems. It is shown how these conditions can be derived from the already known conditions for affine nonlinear systems ...
Schaft, A.J. van der
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There is an unmet need in metastatic breast cancer patients to monitor therapy response in real time. In this study, we show how a noninvasive and affordable strategy based on sequencing of plasma samples with longitudinal tracking of tumour fraction paired with a statistical model provides valuable information on treatment response in advance of the ...
Emma J. Beddowes+20 more
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Making Nonlinear Systems Negative Imaginary via State Feedback [PDF]
This paper provides a state feedback stabilization approach for nonlinear systems of relative degree less than or equal to two by rendering them nonlinear negative imaginary (NI) systems. Conditions are provided under which a nonlinear system can be made a nonlinear NI system or a nonlinear output strictly negative imaginary (OSNI) system.
arxiv
Global reconstruction of nonlinear systems from families of linear systems [PDF]
This note concerns a fundamental issue in the modelling and realisation of nonlinear systems; namely, whether it is possible to uniquely reconstruct a nonlinear system from a suitable collection of transfer functions and, if so, under what conditions. It
Leith, D.J., Leithead, W.E.
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Controllability in nonlinear systems
AbstractIn this paper we obtain an explicit expression for the reachable set for a class of nonlinear systems. This class is described by a chain condition on the Lie algebra of vector fields associated with each nonlinear system. These ideas are used to obtain a generalization of a controllability result for linear systems in the case where ...
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