A fluorescence energy transfer‐based mechanical stress sensor for specific proteins in situ

F Meng, TM Suchyna, F Sachs - The FEBS journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
To measure mechanical stress in real time, we designed a fluorescence resonance energy
transfer (FRET) cassette, denoted stFRET, which could be inserted into structural protein …

Image fusion based on object region detection and non-subsampled contourlet transform

F Meng, M Song, B Guo, R Shi, D Shan - Computers & Electrical …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new fusion algorithm for infrared (IR) and visible light (ViS) images by
combining object region detection with the Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT). …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical dynamics in live cells and fluorescence-based force/tension sensors

C Yang, X Zhang, Y Guo, F Meng, F Sachs… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2015 - Elsevier
Three signaling systems play the fundamental roles in modulating cell activities: chemical,
electrical, and mechanical. While the former two are well studied, the mechanical signaling …

Visualizing dynamic cytoplasmic forces with a compliance-matched FRET sensor

F Meng, F Sachs - Journal of cell science, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
… contains a helical linker (Fanjie Meng; stFRET, a novel tool to study molecular force in living
cells and animals, PhD thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008); Meng et al., …

[HTML][HTML] Updated evaluation of endoscopic submucosal dissection versus surgery for early gastric cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Q Liu, L Ding, X Qiu, F Meng - International Journal of Surgery, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and objective Endoscopic resection (ER) has been a standard treatment modality
for early gastric cancer with ignorable risks of lymph node metastasis. As for EGCs within …

[HTML][HTML] Electrical and optical properties of Al-doped ZnO and ZnAl2O4 films prepared by atomic layer deposition

Q Hou, F Meng, J Sun - Nanoscale research letters, 2013 - Springer
ZnO/Al 2 O 3 multilayers were prepared by alternating atomic layer deposition (ALD) at 150C
using diethylzinc, trimethylaluminum, and water. The growth process, crystallinity, and …

Orientation-based FRET sensor for real-time imaging of cellular forces

F Meng, F Sachs - Journal of cell science, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Mechanical stress is an unmapped source of free energy in cells. Mapping the stress fields
in a heterogeneous time-dependent environment like that found in cells requires probes that …

Actin stress in cell reprogramming

…, Y Wang, F Sachs, F Meng - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Cell mechanics plays a role in stem cell reprogramming and differentiation. To understand
this process better, we created a genetically encoded optical probe, named actin–cpstFRET–…

[PDF][PDF] Highly disordered amyloid-β monomer probed by single-molecule FRET and MD simulation

F Meng, MMJ Bellaiche, JY Kim, GH Zerze, RB Best… - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
Monomers of amyloid-β (Aβ) protein are known to be disordered, but there is considerable
controversy over the existence of residual or transient conformations that can potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Object detection based on faster R-CNN algorithm with skip pooling and fusion of contextual information

Y Xiao, X Wang, P Zhang, F Meng, F Shao - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Deep learning is currently the mainstream method of object detection. Faster region-based
convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) has a pivotal position in deep learning. It has …