Oncology Letters
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2017
·Vol. 15
·期 3
·3192-3196
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IF 1.39
Meng Zhou,Youli Zhang,Hong Wei,Junbo He,Dawei Wang,Baoding Chen,Jian Zeng,Aihua Gong,Min Xu
Hexa-D-arginine (D6R), an inhibitor of furin, has potential therapeutic applications in different types of human tumor. However, the function of D6R in targeting pancreatic cancer cells remains to be elucidated. In the present study, the proliferation, invasion and migration abilities of SW1990 and PaTu8988 cells were examined using a Cell Counting Kit‑8, and Transwell and wound healing assays. Subsequently, the expression of proteins associated with epithelial‑mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the Hippo‑yes‑associated protein (YAP) pathway were detected using western blot analysis. It was revealed that D6R significantly inhibited the proliferation, migration and invasion abilities of SW1990 and PaTu8988 cells. Additionally, D6R led to the upregulation of E‑cadherin (an epithelial marker), and the downregulation of N‑cadherin and vimentin (mesenchymal markers) in SW1990 and PaTu8988 cells. Furthermore, the results of the present study revealed that D6R significantly affected the YAP phosphorylation level and the total YAP protein level, indicating that D6R was functionally involved in the Hippo‑YAP signaling pathway. It has been suggested that D6R‑suppressed EMT in SW1990 and PaTu8988 cells may occur via the Hippo‑YAP pathway and that it may be a feasible drug to ameliorate the malignant phenotype of SW1990 and PaTu8988 cells.
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肿瘤学
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分子生物学
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细胞生物学
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Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
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2023
·Vol. 10
·期 13
·3874-3883
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IF 7
Xiaosi Zhang,Miao Yang,Ye Wang,Caiyi Lou,Shutao Xu,Peng Tian,Zhongmin Liu
Seed-assisted synthesis shows great potential to modify the properties of inorganic microporous materials and enhance synthetic efficiency. However, the understanding of the related mechanism is insufficient, especially in silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) molecular sieve systems. In this work, the seed-assisted synthesis of SAPO-34, an important industrial methanol-to-olefins (MTO) catalyst with CHA topology, was investigated by using various seeds with different structures, compositions and morphologies. It reveals that both double 6-ring (d6r) units and complex Si environments are key features for a highly effective SAPO seed, which may provide small fragments containing complete or broken d6r units with Si–O–Al domains after the dissolution of seeds and thus derive the nucleation and crystallization of SAPO-34. Moreover, small crystal size and high Si content are positive factors for a qualified SAPO seed. Heteronuclear seeds, such as SAPO-18, SAPO-35 and SAPO-56, have been found to be effective for the synthesis of SAPO-34 with improved MTO catalytic performance. For SAPO materials without d6r units, their effect strongly depends on the growth solution and there is no preferential phase selectivity for SAPO-34. These findings could prompt the efficient synthesis and property control of SAPO molecular sieves.
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材料科学
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催化化学
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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2024
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IF 3.7
Lifang Ge,Meizhen Gao,Xiaosheng Zhang,Jiang Wang,Qi Shi,Jinxiang Dong
The adsorption and separation of diols from dilute aqueous solution using hydrophobic materials is very challenging due to the strong diol–water hydrogen-bonding interactions. Herein, we screened hydrophobic zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) with chabazite (CHA) topology for separation of 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) and 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO), which had junctional and hydrophobic traps matching the two end methyl groups of the 2,3-BDO molecule. Based on CHA-ZIFs with the same small-sized ligand 2-methylimidazole (mIm) and different large-sized ligand benzimidazole derivatives (RbIm), CHA-ZIFs with larger surface areas were obtained by the addition of excess small-sized ligand mIm in the synthesis process. We showed that all of the hydrophobic CHA-ZIFs preferentially adsorbed 2,3-BDO over 1,3-PDO by static batch adsorption and dynamic column adsorption experiments. But ZIF-301 and ZIF-300 with halogen groups exhibited better adsorptive separation performance for 2,3-BDO/1,3-PDO than ZIF-302 with methyl groups. For a typical ZIF-301, its adsorption capacity for 2,3-BDO was 116.4 mg·g –1 and selectivity for 2,3-BDO/1,3-PDO was 3.8 in dynamic column adsorption of the binary-component system (2,3-BDO/1,3-PDO: 50/50 g·L –1 ). Computational simulations revealed that 2,3-BDO preferentially adsorbed in a trap at the junction between the cha and d6r cages of CHA-ZIFs, meaning the strong host–guest interactions. Therefore, the hydrophobic CHA-ZIFs with a junctional trap were promising candidate materials for adsorbing 2,3-BDO, which also provided a new perspective for separating diols in dilute aqueous solutions.
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材料科学
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化学工程
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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2024
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IF 5.3
Ling Pan,Song Ye,Ruihao Huang,Meiyan Wang,Peixuan Lin,Haoran Zhang,Deping Wang
Faujasite (FAU) zeolites with abundant exchangeable sites are ideal hosts for the intake of Ag+ and the stabilization of highly luminescent silver nanoclusters (Ag NCs), while theoretical calculations on the spectral characteristics, charge states, and electronic energies of Ag NCs that are confined inside FAU zeolite were seldom reported. In this research, the Na-type FAU zeolites with varying silicon-to-aluminum (Si/Al) ratios were first synthesized with the hydrothermal method and then applied as matrixes to stabilize Ag NCs to obtain tunable emissions. With the decrease in the Si/Al ratio, the Ag NCs show red-shifted emission from 515 to 548 nm and broadened photoluminescence of excitation (PLE) and photoluminescence (PL) spectral profile. The time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) method was carried out to probe the effect of Al substitution on the charge states and the optical properties of Ag NCs confined inside the double-six ring (D6r) cavity. The simulated results of the absorption spectra and energy levels suggest that the S1 → S0 transition of the monovalent Ag3+ cluster is responsible for the visible emission, and the increased full width at half-maximum (fwhm) of the PLE and PL spectra in the low Si/Al ratio FAU zeolites is due to the inhomogeneous broadening brought by the increased isomer numbers of the Al-substituted neutral zeolite framework. It is noted that the peak of the simulated absorption spectra red-shifted with the decrease in the Si/Al ratio, which is consistent with the experimental observation. This research provided an effective method for the manipulation of Ag NC emission in FAU zeolites through framework cation substitution and meanwhile theoretically explained the Si/Al ratio dependence of tunable emission properties, which may benefit the design of zeolite-confined Ag NCs with desirable optical performances.
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材料科学
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化学
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