DYES AND PIGMENTS
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2022
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IF 5.122
Selvaraj Muthusamy,Siqi Yin,Kanagaraj Rajalakshmi,Suci Meng,Dongwei Zhu,Meng Xie,Jimin Xie,Rathna Silviya Lodi,Yuanguo Xu
Hydrazine is a highly toxic pollutant to the environment and living organisms. Therefore, it is an urgent need to detect hydrazine selectively, sensitively, and successfully in the real samples and biosystems . Thus, we designed a donor-π-acceptor fluorophore quinoline ( Q ) appended 4-formylphenyl 2,4-dinitrobenzoate ( P-DNP ) to form a Schiff base QP-DNP for tracking hydrazine in real samples and biosystems. The probe observes an intramolecular charge transfer and aggregation induced emission sensing mechanisms on cleavage of ester bond upon nucleophilic substitution reaction with hydrazine and exhibited a “turn-on” fluorescence at green channel with the formation of quinoline-phenol. The proposed study was investigated through photophysical properties, 1 H NMR titration, HR-MS experiments, and density-functional theory calculations. The LOD of QP-DNP for hydrazine was calculated to be 55 nM and exhibited a high selectivity among possible competitive analytes. Additionally, the probe showed a remarkable emission colour changes on fabrication of paper sensor strips that can be discriminated in monitoring hydrazine vapor using smartphone and achieved an AND gate operation. Furthermore, QP-DNP was successfully applied to fluorescence imaging of hydrazine in live HeLa cells , monitoring of in situ hydrazine release as a metabolite of isoniazid drug administrated orally and determining hydrazine contamination in real samples.
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Bioactive Materials
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2022
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IF 16.874
Sunfan Li,Fangzhou Li,Dong Wan,Zuqin Chen,Jie Pan,Xing-Jie Liang
Chemotherapy remains the mainstay of cancer treatment, benefiting millions of patients each year, but the side effects of chemotherapy drugs severely limit their clinical use. Doxorubicin (DOX) can cause various side effects such as heart damage and treatment-related tumors. The effective use of active and passive targeting will improve the clinical application of DOX. Here, TPGS 3350 and bioactive peptides were utilized to construct a micelle-based stage-by-stage impelled efficient system (missiles) for DOX delivery (DOX missiles). By taking advantage of the EPR effect, DOX missiles are efficiently enriched at the tumor site. After being cleaved by matrix metalloproteinase2 (MMP2), the peptide (VRGD) targets tumor cells to facilitate uptake of the missiles by the tumor cells via receptor-mediated endocytosis. The intracellular activated caspase-3-catalyzed explosion of DOX missiles further enables efficient tumor killing. This study provides an efficient approach for DOX delivery and toxicity reduction.
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DRUG DELIVERY
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2021
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IF 6.419
Bingfeng Liang,Dangxia Zhou
Although podophyllotoxin (POD) demonstrates high efficiency to inhibit various cancers, its clinic application is limited to poor bioavailability. Nanoparticles derived from homodimeric prodrugs with high drug loading potential are emerging as promising nanomedicines. However, complete intracellular drug release remains a major hindrance to the use of homodimeric prodrugs-based nanomedicine. We sought to develop a reactive oxygen species (ROS) responsive POD dimeric prodrug by incorporating vitamin K3 (VK3) and Pluronic F127 to synthesize a spheroid nanoparticle (PTV-NPs). PTV-NPs with high POD content could release drugs under the ROS enrichment microenvironment in cancer cells. The released VK3 could produce abundant ROS selectively in tumor cells catalyzed by the overexpressed NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase-1 (NQO1) enzyme. In turn, the resultant high ROS concentration promoted the conversion of POD dimeric prodrug to POD monomer, thereby achieving the selective killing of cancer cells with weak system toxicity. In vitro and in vivo studies consistently confirmed that PTV-NPs exhibit high drug loading potential and upstanding bioavailability. They are also effectively internalized by tumor cells, induce abundant intracellular ROS generation, and have high tumor-specific cytotoxicity. This ROS-responsive dimeric prodrug nanoplatform characterized by selective self-amplification drug release may hold promise in the field of antitumor drug delivery.
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
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2021
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IF 4.384
Deqian Zhao,Chenlu Hu,Qiang Fu,Huixia Lv
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most dangerous subtype of breast cancer accompanying by unfavorable prognosis due to lack of specific therapeutic targets. Paclitaxel (PTX) is the first-line chemotherapeutic drug for TNBC and niclosamide (NLM) was identified as an inhibitor for TNBC and breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs). Intratumoral drug delivery system was a hopeful alternative for chemotherapeutic drug administration due to its targeting efficiency with lower systemic toxicity. Herein, an injectable PTX nanocrystals (PTX-NCs) and NLM nanocrystals (NLM-NCs) co-loaded PLGA-PEG-PLGA thermosensitive hydrogel (PN NCs-Ts Gel) was designed for TNBC intratumoral treatment. The final formulation realized high drug loading and appropriate particle size. PN NCs-Ts Gel displayed sustained drug release for up to 8 days in vitro. In vitro antitumor tests observed synergetic effects of combined therapy in terms of inhibiting cell proliferation and migration, inducing apoptosis . In vivo combined therapy presented a tumor growth inhibition rate about 68.8% and desired safety. Moreover, tumors after PN NCs-Ts Gel intratumoral injection possessed the lowest ratio of BCSCs, exhibiting this formulation had good ability in suppressing BCSCs and therefore could possibly prevent TNBC recurrence and metastasis. These results suggested that PN NCs-Ts Gel could be a promising strategy for TNBC treatment.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2022
·Vol. 51
·期 6
·2296-2303
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IF 4.569
Xiaoyan Wu,Mingsheng Xu,Shuna Wang,Khurram Abbas,Xin Huang,Renquan Zhang,Antonio Claudio Tedesco,Hong Bi
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising and emerging method for the treatment of cancer. Usually, Type II PDT is used in the clinic, and mainly involves three key elements: a photosensitizer, molecular oxygen and laser light. However, it is known that tumor tissue is deficient in oxygen molecules which is why Type I PDT is mostly preferred in the therapy of tumors in which the hypoxic tissue plays a major role. Fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have shown great potential in cancer theranostics, acting as bioimaging agents and photosensitizers. Herein, we have synthesized novel kinds of fluorine and nitrogen co-doped carbon dots (F,NCDs) that emit bright green fluorescence under ultra-violet light. The F,NCDs have excellent water solubility and low cytotoxicity. They can generate hydroxyl radicals (˙OH) and superoxide anions (˙O2−) under LED light (400–500 nm, 15 mW cm−2) irradiation, making them ideal photosensitizers for Type I PDT. Furthermore, upon using the HepG2 cell line as an in vitro model, the F,NCDs exhibit a better cell imaging effect and higher PDT efficiency than the control sample of CDs without F and N doping. This work has illustrated that the F,NCDs are promising in achieving the image-guided PDT of cancers, usually in a hypoxia tumor microenvironment.
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DRUG DELIVERY
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2021
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Xue Liu,Zhenfeng Wu,Chunjing Guo,Huimin Guo,Yanguo Su,Qiang Chen,Changgang Sun,Qingming Liu,Daquan Chen,Hongjie Mu
Based on the tumor hypoxic microenvironment and the new programmed cell death mode of combined ferroptosis, an angelica polysaccharide-based nanocarrier material was synthesized. The polymer contains hydrophilic angelica polysaccharide (ASP) that is linked by azobenzene (AZO) linker with ferrocene (Fc), and then the side chain was covalently modified with arachidonic acid (AA). It was postulated that the polymer micelles could work as an instinctive liver targeting drug delivery carrier, owing to the existence of ASP with liver targeting. Moreover, the aim was to engineer hypoxia-responsive polymer micelles which was modified by AA, for selective enhancement of ferroptosis in solid tumor, via diminishing glutathione (GSH) under hypoxia. Finally, we synthesized the amphiphilic polymer micelles AA/ASP-AZO-Fc (AAAF) by self-assembling. The structure of AAAF was confirmed by 1H-NMR and FT-IR. Then, we exemplified the hydrophobic medication curcumin into polymer micelles AAAF@Cur, which has smooth and regular spheres. In vitro release test affirmed that AAAF@Cur can achieve hypoxia response to drug release. In addition, a series of cell experiments confirmed that hypoxia could enhance cell uptake and effectively improve the proliferation inhibitory activity of HepG2 cells. In conclusion, AAAF, as an effective cell carrier, is expected to develop in sensitizing ferroptosis and anti-tumor.
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FOOD HYDROCOLLOIDS
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2021
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Hongxia Gao,Li Ma,Wenxuan Sun,David Julian McClements,Ce Cheng,Huaying Zeng,Liqiang Zou,Wei Liu
Probiotics have many beneficial physiological effects, such as enhancing immunity and regulating intestinal microflora. However, the highly acidic conditions in the stomach and the high bile acid concentration in the small intestine pose challenges to the maintenance of probiotic activity after ingestion. In this study, we examined the possibility of increasing the viability of probiotics under gastrointestinal conditions by encapsulating them within oil-in-water high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). These emulsions were prepared using whey protein isolate (WPI) and pectin, which were gelled by adding GDL and calcium to form double network HIPE gels. The gel strength, stability, and shear viscosity of the gelled HIPEs increased as the pectin concentration was raised from 0 to 2%. Cryo-SEM analysis showed that the pectin formed a dense hydrogel network in the aqueous phase surrounding the oil droplets in the HIPEs. Probiotics were encapsulated within the gelled HIPEs by dispersing a probiotic powder in the oil phase. Confocal microscopy indicated that the probiotics were mostly distributed in the water, and interfacial phases, with only a few of the probiotics remaining in the oil phase. Encapsulation of the probiotics in the HIPEs increased the number of live cells remaining after a heat treatment and after passage through a simulated gastrointestinal model. The incorporation of pectin into the HIPEs increased the viability of the probiotics, especially after exposure to the gastric phase. This study highlights the potential of HIPEs in preserving probiotic activity, which may be useful for the development of more effective functional foods.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2021
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IF 9.229
Xidong Tian,Hriday Bera,Xiong Guo,Ruizhao Xu,Jin Sun,Zhonggui He,Dongmei Cun,Mingshi Yang
Chemotherapeutics often failed to elicit optimal antitumor responses against lung cancer due to their limited exposure and accumulation in tumors. To achieve an effective therapeutic outcome of paclitaxel (PTX) against metastatic lung cancer with attenuated systemic and local toxicities, pulmonary delivery of redox-responsive PTX dimeric nanoparticles (NPs) was introduced. PTX dimers conjugated through variable lengths of diacid linkers containing disulfide bonds (−SS−) (i.e., α–PTX–SS–PTX, β–PTX–SS–PTX, and γ–PTX–SS–PTX) were initially synthesized and were subsequently self-assembled into uniform nanosized particles in the presence of vitamin E TPGS with high drug loading capacity (DE > 97%). Among various redox-sensitive scaffolds, β–PTX–SS–PTX NPs exhibited an optimal reactive oxygen species/glutathione-responsive drug release behavior, causing a lower local toxicity profile of PTX in the lungs. The scaffolds also demonstrated excellent colloidal stability, cellular uptake efficiency, and discriminating cytotoxicity between cancer and healthy cells. Further, they depicted an improved lung retention as compared to the control nanovesicles (β–PTX–CC–PTX) devoid of the redox-sensitive disulfide motif. In the B16F10 melanoma metastatic lung cancer mouse model, intratracheally delivered β–PTX–SS–PTX NPs exhibited a stronger anticancer potential with reduced systemic toxicity as compared to Taxol intravenous injection containing an equivalent PTX dose. The PTX dimeric NPs could also dramatically reduce the local toxicity relative to Taxol following their pulmonary delivery. Thus, this study presents redox-responsive PTX dimeric NPs as a promising nanomedicine for improved therapeutic efficacy against metastatic lung cancer.
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Analytical Methods
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2021
·Vol. 13
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IF 2.896
Xinfa Cai,Meijuan Liang,Fei Ma,Sherif Ramzy Mohamed,Amira Abdel Goda,Dawood H. Dawood,Li Yu,Peiwu Li
A direct competitive nanozyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dcNLISA) based on MnO2 nanosheets (MnO2 NSs) as a nanozyme label was developed for the highly sensitive determination of fumonisin B1 (FB1). MnO2 NS-labeled fumonisin B1-bovine serum albumin was easily synthesized as a competing antigen for the dcNLISA. And color changes derived from the MnO2–3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) system were exploited as the output signals of the dcNLISA. Several experimental parameters including the concentrations of the coating antibody, pH values, ionic strength and methanol concentration were optimized. Under the optimal conditions, the proposed method demonstrated a linear range (1.17–20.74 ng mL−1) with a reliable correlation coefficient (R2 = 0.9989), a satisfactory limit of detection (0.63 ng mL−1) and high selectivity for the detection of FB1. The recoveries of FB1 in spiked corn and wheat samples were in the range of 85.31–108.16% with coefficients of variation (CVs) ranging from 6.14% to 9.23%. Meanwhile, the testing results showed good consistency (R2 = 0.9892) between the developed dcNLISA and the reference method, liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method. The proposed method was proven to be simple, sensitive, cost-effective and reliable for the screening of FB1 in cereals.
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DYES AND PIGMENTS
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2021
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IF 4.889
Shijun Lin,Shuwen Liu,Guofei Dai,Xiaojin Zhang,Fan Xia,Yu Dai
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), as one of the major tools of fluorescence-quenching sensors, have been widely used in biochemical analysis through fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) effect. With the development of chemistry and biochemistry, reaction-based fluorescent sensors have attracted increasing attention because of their unique selectivity, high sensitivity and rapid detection. Here we report a click-induced fluorescence-quenching sensor based on AuNPs for detection of copper ion (Cu 2+ ) and ascorbic acid (AA). A fluorescent dye Rhodamine B-(CH 2 CH 2 O) 4 -azide (RB-PEG 4 -N 3 ) is conjugated to the surface of AuNPs via Cu(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) in the presence of Cu 2+ and AA, leading to the fluorescence quenching of Rhodamine B. The sensor responds quickly (within less than 3 min). The fluorescent intensity linearly correlates with the concentration of Cu 2+ in the range of 0–108 μM. The limit of detection (LOD) for Cu 2+ is 5.8 μM. The concentration range for detection of AA is 0–3 mM. The LOD for AA is 0.13 mM. In addition, the application of the sensor is verified by performing detection in real samples such as fresh orange, juice, VC tablet, and lake water. This work expands the application of AuNPs-based fluorescence-quenching sensors for multi-component detection.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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2021
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IF 3.171
Dong Wan,Sunfan Li,Jianxin Zhang,Guilei Ma,Jie Pan
Compared with physical drug-loaded nanocarriers, polymeric prodrug micelles have many advantages such as high drug loading and enhanced stability in blood, so they have great potential in cancer therapy. However, these micelles have a big disadvantage, which cannot achieve long-term circulation in vivo and high absorption of tumor cells simultaneously, resulting in low administration efficiency and poor therapeutic effect on cancer. To solve problems of traditional polymeric prodrug micelles, novel polymeric micelles with tumor microenvironment response were designed in this work. The prodrug formed by covalently linking D-α-tocopherol polyethylene glycol succinate (TPGS 3350 ), peptide (Pep), and doxorubicin (DOX) (TPGS 3350 -Pep-DOX) was self-assembled into micelles by encapsulating DOX physically. When the micelles entered the tumor tissue, the long-chain polyethylene glycol (PEG) was sensitively cut by the matrix metalloproteinase 2/9 (MMP2/9) enzyme, exposing the targeting molecule folate, then it entered the cell through the endocytic pathway mediated by the folate receptor. The drug loading content, encapsulation efficiency, critical micelle concentration , and invitro release of the micelles invented in this study were measured to characterize their properties. The particle size and zeta potential of micelles were characterized by dynamic light scattering. Images were scanned by transmission electron microscopes. In vitro cytotoxicity, cellular uptake, and in vivo antitumor effect evaluation experiments were measured to show that smart micelles have made much progress in material chemistry and drug delivery, making it possible to apply a stimulus–response carrier drug delivery system in clinical application.
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2021
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Xu Shi,Peidong Hong,Hongqi Huang,Dandan Yang,Kaisheng Zhang,Junyong He,Yulian Li,Zijian Wu,Chao Xie,Jinhuai Liu,Lingtao Kong
Fenton-like catalysts have usually superior catalytic activities, however, some drawbacks of ion leaching and difficult-to-recovery limit their applications. In this work, a hierarchical porous Fe 3 O 4 /Co 3 S 4 catalyst was fabricated via a simple phase change reaction to overcome these shortcomings. The introduced iron cooperates with cobalt achieving high-efficiency activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) to eliminate Rhodamine B (RhB). The results showed that 0.05 g/L Fe 3 O 4 /Co 3 S 4 and 1 mM PMS could quickly remove 100% of 200 mg/L RhB within 20 min, and the removal rate of RhB remained above 82% after 5 cycles. Moreover, the as-prepared Fe 3 O 4 /Co 3 S 4 possessed a great magnetic separation capacity and good stability of low metal leaching dose. Radical quenching experiments and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) techniques proved that sulfate radicals (SO 4 •− ) were the dominant reactive oxygen species responding for RhB degradation. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) pointed out that the synergism of sulfur promoted the cycling of Co 3+ /Co 2+ and Fe 3+ /Fe 2+ , boosting the electron transfer between Fe 3 O 4 /Co 3 S 4 and PMS. Moreover, the degradation pathways of RhB were deduced by combining liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The toxicities of RhB and its intermediates were evaluated as well, which provided significant assistance in the exploration of their ecological risks.
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