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Long-Fei Ren,Siqi Zhang,Zhongbao Ma,Yangbo Qiu,Diwen Ying,Jinping Jia,Jiahui Shao,Yiliang He
Excessive discharge of saline antibiotics wastewater into aquatic ecosystem is one crucial environmental issue facing the world today. Herein, an eco-friendly nanofiltration (NF) membrane was fabricated based on coordination complexes of tannic acid and ferric ions (TA-Fe) to selectively separate antibiotic and monovalent salt. Optimal membrane with Fe/TA molar ratio of 3/1 and coordination time of 60 s exhibited Zeta potential of −26.0 mV (pH = 7), water contact angle of 45.5 o and pore radius of 0.36 nm. Consequently, TA-Fe@M3-T60 membrane showed high ciprofloxacin/NaCl rejection ratio of ~5.9 and considerable water permeability of 20.6 ± 1.2 LMH. Besides, relatively high rejection rates were obtained for ofloxacin (94.1 ± 2.2 %) and ciprofloxacin (91.9 ± 2.5 %), while rejection rate for trimethoprim was much lower (68.2 ± 4.1 %). Effects of static/dynamic membrane adsorption of antibiotics on subsequent removal performance were investigated for the first time. Rejection rate improvements of 7.4–15.2 % were observed on pristine membrane compared with pre-adsorbed membrane in short-term NF process. Electrostatic shielding experiment and rejection rate prediction further distinguished the contributions of steric hindrance , electrostatic interaction and membrane adsorption on antibiotics removal, especially antibiotics in zwitterionic form at pH = 7. The findings of this work imply that this newly developed NF membrane has great potential for efficient treatment of antibiotics-contaminated wastewater.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS
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2022
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Chenlan Xu,Shuting Chen,Cuiping Chen,Yangcan Ming,Jiahao Du,Jinyi Mu,Fang Luo,Da Huang,Na Wang,Zhenyu Lin,Zuquan Weng
Co-delivery of anti-inflammatory drugs and reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavengers by stimuli-responsive oral nanoparticles is deemed to be a favorable strategy for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) therapy. In this study, using micelles formed by CUR conjugated hydroxyethyl starch (HES) as vehicles, dexamethasone (DEX)-loaded HES-CUR nanoparticles (DHC NPs) with desirable size, negative surface charge, good stability in the harsh gastric environment, and excellent ROS scavenging activity are developed as a colon-targeted oral formulation for treating IBD. Due to the degradation of HES in response to α-amylase overexpressed in the inflamed colon, the DHC NPs release drugs in an α-amylase-responsive manner. Meanwhile, the DHC NPs can be effectively internalized by macrophages and show excellent cytocompatibility with macrophages since they are composed of food-derived compounds. Importantly, in vivo studies reveal that the DHC NPs are capable of targeting the inflamed colon induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS), and the targeted and combination therapy enhances the efficacy of free DEX and significantly relieves the impairment caused by DSS-induced ulcerative colitis. Incorporating the merits of targeted drug delivery and combined therapy with an anti-inflammatory drug and ROS scavenger, the DHC NPs are promising for developing novel oral formulations for IBD therapy.
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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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Wenfei Ren,Yuan Liu,Baiyi Zu,Jiguang Li,Da Lei,Tianshi Zhang,Xincun Dou
Leakage and contamination of hazardous chemical substances have been widely recognized as the critical issue in ensuring human health, maintaining environmental sustainability, and safeguarding public security. Urotropin as a crucial raw material in industrial holds a potential threat to aquatic/atmospheric environment with refractory degradation problem, hence, there remains a severe challenge to effectively and on-site monitor urotropin. Here, a general design with all-in-one strategy was presented, in which a highly integrated “pocket sensing chip” combining a sampling unit and a detecting unit together endows a rapid and ultrasensitive colorimetric detection without dead-zone towards urotropin. By loading fast blue B as sensing reagent in the detecting unit, a moderate and sensitive detection towards urotropin via electrostatic interaction was achieved with detection limits of 9 μM for liquid and 17.19 ng for particulates . Furthermore, an expandable sensing chip for the purpose of simultaneously screening on multi-target exhibited remarkable applicability for examining suspicious objects with all sorts of surface in real scenes, being unacted on environmental complexity. We expect this design would provide a universal strategy and the high referential value to propel the development of handy and portable sensing device to efficiently screen the environmental relevant critical substance on-site.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2022
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Dongwei Feng,Peng Huang,Yunfei Miao,Axin Liang,Xuan Wang,Bo Tang,Huipeng Hou,Mingxing Ren,Shimeng Gao,Lina Geng,Aiqin Luo
Developing cost-effective, ease-to-use and sensitive cholesterol sensors is of great importance. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor has exhibited their potential with low cost, simple instrumentation, easy miniaturization, and high sensitivity. Organometal lead halide perovskites (MAPbX 3 ) with exceptional opto-electronic properties have been appealing materials for optoelectronic devices. Whereas the extreme sensitivity of MAPbX 3 towards even moisture has always restricted their application in biological use. Here we report a novel MAPbX 3 photoelectrochemical cholesterol sensor with water stability. The titanium dioxide inverse opal (TiO 2 IOPCs) and CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 quantum dot heterojunction on ITO glass exhibited a remarkably increased photoelectric current density of approximately 40 μA/cm 2 . The further encapsulation within the imprinted polymer presented high selectivity towards cholesterol and significantly improved the stability of perovskites as well. Linear detection of cholesterol in buffer was achieved with the detection limit of 2.51 × 10 - 10 mol/L, lower than that of the reported cholesterol PEC sensor in aqueous buffer. Recovery rates in serum were also obtained with the cholesterol concentration lower than the reported imprinted polymer based (photo)electrochemical sensor. Additionally, the photocurrent intensity under continuous emission was maintained at 80% after immersing this sensor in an aqueous solution for 500 s. The storage stability was more than 20 days. Here we present the first MAPbX3 perovskite-based sensor applicable in aqueous samples with super sensitivity and selectivity, which promote the perovskite nanomaterial-mediated sensing of biologically important species.
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JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
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·Vol. 20
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Deng Bo,Ma Bing,Ma Yingying,Cao Pei,Leng Xigang,Huang Pengyu,Zhao Yuanyuan,Ji Tianjiao,Lu Xueguang,Liu Lanxia
Chemotherapeutics that can trigger immunogenic cell death (ICD) and release tumor-specific antigens are effective on treating a variety of cancers. The codelivery of chemotherapeutics with adjuvants is a promising strategy to achieve synergistic therapeutic effect. However, low drug loading and complicated preparation of current delivery systems lead to carrier-associated toxicity and immunogenicity. Herein, we developed a facile approach to construct liposomal spherical nucleic acids (SNA) by the self-assembly of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DOPE)-doxorubicin conjugate and DOPE-matrix metalloproteinases-9 (MMP-9) responsive peptide-CpG conjugate (DOPE-MMP-CpG). Liposomal SNAs efficiently co-delivered DOX and CpG into tumors and released the two drugs upon biological stimuli of MMP-9 enzyme in tumor microenvironment (TME) and high concentration of endogenous glutathione in tumor cells. We demonstrated that liposomal SNA enhanced activation of dendritic cells (DCs), promoted expansion of CD8 + and CD4 + T cells in both tumors and spleen, inhibited tumor growth, and extended animal survival. This work provided a simple strategy of delivering chemotherapeutics and adjuvants to tumors with synergistic therapeutic effect and reduced side effect. Graphical Abstract
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Acta Biomaterialia
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Yuqin Zeng,Can Zhang,Dou Du,Ya Li,Lu Sun,Yuanyuan Han,Xiaoxiao He,Jianwu Dai,Liyang Shi
Metal-organic framework (MOF) is an exciting class of porous biomaterials that have been considered as a carrier to store and deliver therapeutic drugs. However, similar to other nanomaterials , the application of MOF in clinical settings is still limited because of premature diffusion of their payloads and tissue off-targeting behavior. To overcome these challenges, we designed an MOF-based hydrogel with structurally dynamic properties, i.e. , self-healing and shear-thinning, as an injectable localized drug delivery platform. The drug-encapsulating MOF hydrogel is formed through a dynamic coordination bond cross-linkage between a doxorubicin-loaded MOF ( [email protected] ) particle and a homemade bisphosphonate-modified hyaluronic acid (HA-BP) polymeric binder. The HA-BP· [email protected] hydrogel demonstrates pH- and ATP-responsive drug release characteristic and efficiently kills cancer cells in vitro . The animal experiments reveal that the HA-BP· [email protected] hydrogel has enhanced capability in terms of tumor growth suppression as compared to the [email protected] group, which can be attributed to drug localization in hydrogel superstructure and sustained release at the tumor site. The presented injectable dynamic MOF-based hydrogel is a promising in vivo localized drug delivery system for cancer treatment. Herein, we report the self-healing and shear-thinning of MOF-based drug carrier cross-linked by coordinate bonds for the first time and provide new insights and a facile chemical strategy for designing and fabricating MOF-based biomaterials by using bisphosphonate-zinc interaction. Statement of significance Bisphosphonate-zinc interaction is a facile chemical strategy to cross-link metal-organic framework (MOF)-based hydrogel. The presented MOF-based hydrogel demonstrates structurally dynamic properties, including smooth injectability, self-healing, and shear-thinning. The developed MOF-based hydrogel possesses pH- and ATP-responsive drug release characteristic and kills cancer cells in vitro efficiently. The dynamic MOF-based hydrogel shows enhanced in vivo anticancer activity as compared to pure MOF particles. Self-healing and shear-thinning of metal-ligand cross-linked MOF-based drug delivery system are reported for the first time, thus providing new insights for the design and fabrication of MOF-based biomaterials.
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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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IF 9.224
Yuan Zhang,Weina Meng,Xiao Li,Dong Wang,Shaomin Shuang,Chuan Dong
Development of multifunctional enzymatic nanomaterials with rapid and sensitive characteristics for glutathione determination is extremely urgent for early cancer diagnosis. Herein, a core–shell ultrasensitive nanozyme (denoted as CPT/DM-FA) for triple-mode glutathione sensing and specific in vitro cancer detection is constructed. The dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticle (DMSN) core not only acts as a camptothecin carrier, but also offers the nanoplatform to synthesize the MnO2 shell. Due to the DMSN-regulated high dispersion of MnO2, the atomic utilization efficiency of MnO2 is surprisingly enhanced, and leads to notable enzymatic activity with Km 0.136 μM and Vmax 0.59 μM/s. In addition, by integrating the quenching ability based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer and oxidase-mimic-mediated 1O2, O2– generation of MnO2, the fluorescence, UV–vis, and colorimetric method for glutathione sensing is established with a comprehensive linear range from 2 to 250 μM and a limit of detection of 0.654 μM. Besides, after surface folic acid modification, the CPT/DM-FA could also specifically detect cancer cells from 25 to 1 50 000 through the color reaction of 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine. We believe this nanozyme could afford a potential strategy to amplify the nanozyme activity for further biomedical applications.
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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
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IF 4.369
Dandan Wang,Yixin Zhang,Liangyi Cui,Qing Yang,Jiao Wang
Endometriosis , defined as the abnormal growth of functional endometrium outside the uterus , is characterized by the abnormal phenotype of endometrial cells. This study aimed to investigate the role of latent transforming growth factor beta binding protein 2 (LTBP2), an extracellular matrix protein , in the occurrence and development of endometriosis. Elevated LTBP2 expression levels were observed in endometrial tissues and serum of endometriosis patients and their area under the ROC curve (AUC) values for distinguishing endometriosis were 0.9044 and 0.9534, respectively. Overexpressing-LTBP2 could promote proliferation, migration, and invasion, whereas suppressing apoptosis of endometrial stromal cells (ESCs). Moreover, LTBP2 downregulation induced the opposite effect. The supernatant from ESCs overexpressing LTBP2 promoted the tube formation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), thus indicating an angiogenic effect. Furthermore, overexpression of LTBP2 facilitated the inflammation and might promote endometriosis progression through the NF- k B signaling pathway . Conclusively, LTBP2 might be a potential target in the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis.
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DNA AND CELL BIOLOGY
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Feng Chi,Fang Qiu,Xiaoming Jin,Long Chen,Guijin He,Sijia Han
Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most frequently occurring malignant tumors in female adults. The long intergenic nonprotein coding RNA 00982 (LINC00982) has been regarded as a cancer suppressor in several human cancers. However, the function and the underlying mechanisms of LINC00982 have not been studied in BC. The present study found that LINC00982 was significantly downregulated in BC tumor tissues, and the low LINC00982 level predicts a poor prognosis of BC. Through the overexpression and suppression of LINC00982 in two BC cell lines, we found that LINC00982 could inhibit cell proliferation, migration, and invasion by suppressing the activity of the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3)/nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) signal pathway. Furthermore, luciferase reporter assay has been used to verify that LINC00982 functions as a molecular sponge for miR-765, which could target DPF3. The relative expression of miR-765 decreased with LINC00982 overexpressing, and DPF3 increased at the same time.In addition, the suppression of cell malignant phenotype caused by overexpression of LINC00982 can be reversed by inhibition of DPF3. To verify the function of LINC00982 in vivo, the BC cells were implanted in nude mice and the results suggested the tumor growth and malignant phenotype were suppressed by LINC00982. In this study, we prove that LINC00982 regulates the growth and development of BC through STAT3/NF-κB signal pathway, mediated by the miR-765/DPF3 axis. LINC00982 may function as a target molecule to take part in the prognosis and therapy of BC.
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Frontiers in Pharmacology
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2022
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IF 5.988
Peiheng Cai,Gaofan Sheng,Shiqin Jiang,Daifei Wang,Zhongxiang Zhao,Min Huang,Jing Jin
Cryptotanshinone (CTS) is a lipophilic constituent of Salvia miltiorrhiza , with a broad-spectrum anticancer activity. We have observed that CTS enhances the efficacy of gefitinib in human lung cancer H1975 cells, yet little is known about its molecular mechanism. To explore how CTS enhances H1975 cell sensitivity to gefitinib, we figured out differential proteins of H1975 cells treated by gefitinib alone or in combination with CTS using label-free liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Gene Ontology (GO), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), and protein–protein interaction (PPI) bioinformatic analyses of the differential proteins were performed. CTS enhanced H1975 cell sensitivity to gefitinib in vitro and in vivo , with 115 and 128 differential proteins identified, respectively. GO enrichment, KEGG analysis, and PPI network comprehensively demonstrated that CTS mainly impacted the redox process and fatty acid metabolism in H1975 cells. Moreover, three differential proteins, namely, catalase (CAT), heme oxygenase 1 (HMOX1), and stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) were validated by RT-qPCR and Western blot. In conclusion, we used a proteomic method to study the mechanism of CTS enhancing gefitinib sensitivity in H1975 cells. Our finding reveals the potential protein targets of CTS in overcoming gefitinib resistance, which may be therapeutical targets in lung cancer.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2022
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Sankar Sekar,Jiang Huijun,Zhou Liuzhu,Chen Jin,Sejoon Lee,Deuk Young Kim,Ramalingam Manikandan
Foodborne antioxidants including ascorbic acid (AA), caffeic acid (CA) and gallic acid (GA) are beneficial nutritional sources and thereby the analysis of the critical antioxidant is demanding for public health. Here, a sonochemical method was used to obtain hybrid copper-phthalocyanine conjugated graphitic carbon nitrides nanosheets (CuPTc/g-C 3 N 4 Ns) in which carboxylic acids and hydroxyl groups were added on the basal plane of g-C 3 N 4 . As prepared materials were characterized by various physicochemical and electroanalytical techniques, the CuPTc/g-C 3 N 4 Ns nanocomposite showed an excellent electrocatalytic activity towards antioxidants quantifications by using Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) coated glass plate. Under optimized experimental conditions, sensitive electrochemical detection of antioxidants was achieved on the CuPTc/g-C 3 N 4 Ns nanocomposite-modified ITO which resulted in wide linear concentration range of 0.05-500 µM (AA), 0.05-501 nM (CA) and 10-445 nM (GA) and the limit of detection (LOD) of 0.006 µM, 0.008 nM and 0.5 nM respectively. Furthermore, the fabricated sensor was successfully used for the antioxidants determinations in different commercial fruit juice, alcoholic beverages and tea samples with good recovery results demonstrating a hybrid phthalocyanine conjugated 2D carbon nanocomposite as an efficient electrocatalyst of desirable practical importance.
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ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
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2022
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IF 9.224
Jiaojiao Zhou,Die Zhang,Xuqin Lv,Xiaoqing Liu,Wei Xu,Lei Chen,Jie Cai,Zia-ud Din,Shuiyuan Cheng
Selenium is an essential micronutrient and is well known for its role in regulating metabolism. However, it is also highly toxic in some of its forms and above certain concentration levels. Amorphous selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) are extremely unstable and convert into non-bioactive or gray elemental selenium with crystal-type structures due to aggregation, which limits its antioxidant and anti-tumor activities. To overcome these limitations, monodisperse SeNPs were obtained by stabilizing SeNPs with glucan and rosmarinic acid (RA) via Se–O bonds and polysaccharide–polyphenol interactions. The prepared glucan-RA-SeNPs were found much more stable than both SeNPs and glucan-stabilized SeNPs. Meanwhile, glucan-RA-SeNPs displayed enhanced bioactivities including an improved free radical scavenging ability and an increased cytotoxicity toward cancer cells. The underlying mechanism might be related to caspase activation by glucan-RA-SeNPs, thus overproducing intracellular reactive oxygen species and eventually resulting in cancer cell apoptosis. Our work proposes a feasible strategy for improving the structure–bioactivity of SeNPs through polysaccharide–polyphenol interaction.
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