ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2014
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Pingsheng Huang,Jinjian Liu,Weiwei Wang,Chen Li,Junhui Zhou,Xue Wang,Liandong Deng,Deling Kong,Jianfeng Liu,Anjie Dong
Enabling nanocarriers to complete the sophisticated journey from the initial injection site to the targeted tumor cells and achieve “spatiotemporally pinpointed” drug release intracellularly is a challenging task in anticancer drug delivery. Herein, versatile shell-cross-linked nanoparticles (SCNPs) were prepared by one-step assembly of triblock zwitterionic copolymers, polycarboxybetaine methacrylate-block-poly(N-(2-(2-pyridyl disulde) ethyl methacrylamide-block-poly(2-(diisopropylamino) ethyl methacrylate) (PCB-b-PDS-b-PDPA, termed as PCSSD), which was well-defined via reversible additive fragment transfer (RAFT) polymerization, followed by functionalization with Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD). Thus, the RGD-PCSSD SCNPs cooperatively combine the ultra pH-sensitive PDPA core for efficient drug loading and pH-responsive drug release, the disulfide-cross-linked PDS shell that prevents premature drug release, the zwitterionic PCB corona to stabilize the SCNPs and prolong its systemic circulation, the RGD ligand for active tumor targeting and receptor-mediated endocytosis. Doxorubicin (DOX) was loaded as a model medicine (termed as RGD-PCSSD/DOX SCNPs). The dual-sensitivity studies showed that the pH-sensitivity of PDPA core could be adjusted by the shell-cross-linking density, accompanied by better control over premature drug release. Furthermore, results obtained by flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy analysis demonstrated that once the RGD-PCSS10D/DOX SCNPs were internalized into tumor cells via receptor-mediated endocytosis, boost drug release was observed with considerable cytotoxicity in vitro. The results of ex vivo imaging studies further confirmed the successful drug delivery from the injection site to the tumor tissue. In summary, the well-constructed RGD-PCSS10D/DOX SCNPs with cooperative multifunctionality showed great potential as novel nanocarriers for tumor targeted anticancer drug delivery.
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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2015
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Datong Wu,Pengfei Cai,Zhihao Tao,Yuanjiang Pan
In this study, a novel task-specific ionic liquid functionalized gold nanoparticle (TSIL-GNP) was successfully prepared and applied in the recognition of amino acids . Particularly, the surface of GNP was modified with the ionic liquid containing carbamido and ester group via thiol, which was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The stability of this material in aqueous solution improves apparently and can remain unchanged for more than three months. The effect of pH was also discussed in this study. Attractive ionic interaction would effectively weaken intensity of the covalent coupling between the metal ion and the functional groups of amino acids. Thus, TSIL-GNP was successfully applied to recognizing serine , aspartic acid , lysine, arginine, and histidine in the presence of Cu 2+ through distinctive color changes. Suspension would be generated once a spot of cysteine was added into the GNPs solution. Results indicated that it had a good linear relationship between extinction coefficients and concentration of amino acids in a wide range of 10 −3 –10 −6 M. Moreover, the proposed strategy was successfully used to analyze the histidine in urinary samples. In brief, TSIL-GNP is a suitable substrate for discrimination of five amino acids in a rapid and simple way without sophisticated instruments.
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INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
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2015
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Li-Hong Tan,Dan Zhang,Gang Wang,Bao Yu,Sheng-Ping Zhao,Jian-Wei Wang,Ling Yao,Wei-Guo Cao
The aim of this study was to compare the flavonoids compositions, content and antioxidant activities of Hawk tea from six botanical origins for screening the most suitable botanical origins. The main flavonoids of Hawk teas from Litsea coreana Levl. var. lanuginose were identified, and six high contents of individual flavonoids (hyperin, isoquercitrin, quercitrin, astragalin, quercetin and kaempferol) were quantitative and comparative analysis. Moreover the potential antioxidant capacity of Hawk tea was measured by using in vitro antioxidant assays. The above experimental data were all used for the principal component analysis. The statistical results showed that the extracts from Machilus chuanchienensis S. Lee and L. coreana Levl. var. lanuginose appeared closely positioned in the positive regions, indicated the higher flavonoids and antioxidant activity compared with other species. Thus, they were temporarily considered as good sources of Hawk tea.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2015
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Yin-Chu Ma,Jun-Xia Wang,Wei Tao,Chun-Yang Sun,Yu-Cai Wang,Dong-Dong Li,Feng Fan,Hai-Sheng Qian,Xian-Zhu Yang
Multidrug resistance (MDR) has been recognized as a key factor contributing to the failure of chemotherapy for cancer in the clinic, often due to insufficient delivery of anticancer drugs to target cells. For addressing this issue, a redox-responsive polyphosphoester-based micellar nanomedicine, which can be triggered to release transported drugs in tumor cells, has been developed. The micelles are composed of diblock copolymers with a hydrophilic PEG block and a hydrophobic polyphosphoester (PPE) block bearing a disulfide bond in a side group. After incubating the redox-responsive micelles with drug-resistant tumor cells, the intracellular accumulation and retention of DOX were significantly enhanced. Moreover, after internalization by MDR cancer cells, the disulfide bond in the side group was cleaved by the high intracellular glutathione levels, resulting in a hydrophobic to hydrophilic transition of the PPE block and subsequent disassembly of the micelles. Thus, the encapsulated DOX was rapidly released, and abrogation of drug resistance in the cancer cells was observed in vitro. Moreover, the DOX-loaded redox-responsive micelles exhibited significantly enhanced inhibition of tumor growth in nude mice bearing MCF-7/ADR xenograft tumors via tail vein injection, indicating that such micelles have great potential in overcoming MDR for cancer therapy.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2014
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Yuanqing Fu,Yan Zhang,Huiying Hu,Ying Chen,Rong Wang,Duo Li,Songbai Liu
Novel galloyl phytosterols were rationally designed by incorporation of gallic acid into phytosterols through straightforward esterification . The esterification was successfully achieved by coupling of gallic acid and phytosterols through a mild chemical Steglich esterification reaction that is more straightforward than the enzymatic method . The identity of the newly synthesized galloyl phytosterols was confirmed by NMR, HPLC–MS and IR spectroscopies . Further evaluation of the novel galloyl phytosterols with radical scavenging, ferrous ion chelating, and Rancimat methods revealed its excellent antioxidant activities that are comparable to the most potent fat-soluble antioxidants . This novel antioxidant offers an intriguing solution for naturally derived antioxidants and will have great potential application as antioxidant in food industry. The methods developed in this study will be valuable for development of other phenolic phytosterols.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2014
·Vol. 43
·期 26
·9968-9975
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Xiujuan Jiang,Li Long,Hailong Wang,Limei Chen,Xiaoming Liu
The CO-releasing behaviours of nine diiron carbonyl complexes (1–9) were examined via the substitution reaction of cysteamine (CysA), of which complex 4 was reported recently. These complexes fall into three categories, the diiron core bridged by two thiolates, a dithiolate and 1,8-naphthalene dithiolate. Our results reveal that the CO-releasing rates of these complexes are highly dependent on their structures. Complexes (2–4) bearing two monothiolates as their bridging linkage (“open” form) are more vulnerable to decomposition upon nucleophilic substitution reactions compared with complexes (6–9) that possess a dithiolate as their bridging linkage. When the bridging linkage lacks an electron-donating group (complex 1), the metal centre is less negatively charged as revealed by DFT calculation, and thus it exhibits fast substitution reaction with CysA to release CO. A linkage with conjugating nature (5) shows a similar effect because electron density on the metal centre decreases due to electron-density diverting from the metal centre into the naphthalene moiety. Kinetic analysis suggests that CO-releasing at the first stage of these complexes is a first-order reaction.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2015
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Zhengui Mao,Zhihe Qing,Taiping Qing,Fengzhou Xu,Li Wen,Xiaoxiao He,Dinggeng He,Hui Shi,Kemin Wang
Biomineralized fluorescent metal nanoparticles have attracted considerable interest in many fields by virtue of their excellent properties in synthesis and application. Poly(thymine)-templated fluorescent copper nanoparticles (T-CuNPs) as a promising nanomaterial has been exploited by us recently and displays great potential for signal transducing in biochemical analysis. However, the application of T-CuNPs is rare and still at an early stage. Here, a new fluorescent analytical strategy has been developed for H2O2 and oxidase-based biosensing by exploiting T-CuNPs as an effective signal indicator. The mechanism is mainly based on the poly(thymine) length-dependent formation of T-CuNPs and the probe’s oxidative cleavage. In this assay, the probe T40 can effectively template the formation of T-CuNPs by a fast in situ manner in the absence of H2O2, with high fluorescent signal, while the probe is cleaved into short-oligonucleotide fragments by hydroxyl radical (·OH) which is formed from the Fenton reaction in the presence of H2O2, leading to the decline of fluorescence intensity. By taking advantage of H2O2 as a mediator, this strategy is further exploited for oxidase-based biosensing. As the proof-of-concept, glucose in human serum has been chosen as the model system and has been detected, and its practical applicability has been investigated by assay of real clinical blood samples. Results demonstrate that the proposed strategy has not only good detection capability but also eminent detection performance, such as simplicity and low-cost, holding great potential for constructing effective sensors for biochemical and clinical applications.
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Advanced Healthcare Materials
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2017
·Vol. 6
·期 24
·1700829
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Wenxiu He,Xu Hu,Wei Jiang,Ruiling Liu,Di Zhang,Jing Zhang,Zhonghao Li,Yuxia Luan
Herein, two careful selected anticancer drugs camptothecin (CPT) and cytarabine (Ara-C) with different biological action mechanisms and different water solubility are conjugated together through a glutathione (GSH) cleavable disulfide bond to construct a redox-sensitive drug–drug conjugate, which can self-assemble into nanoparticles, thus notably improving the water solubility of CPT and the cell membrane permeability of Ara-C. Compared with free drugs, the self-assembled CPT-ss-Ara nanoparticles can concentrate in tumor tissues through the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, then they can be rapidly internalized by tumor cells and degrade into free drugs for killing the tumor cells when exposed to the reductive environment (GSH) of tumor cells, thereby reducing the injury to normal cells. Meanwhile, the CPT-ss-Ara nanoparticles can effectively protect CPT and Ara-C molecules from biological inactivation before their arrival in tumor microenvironment since free CPT and Ara-C are easy to partly lose their therapy efficacy due to their structure degradation in blood circulation. The in vitro and in vivo anticancer experimental results indicate that simultaneous release of free CPT and Ara-C can realize synergistic chemotherapy effects, thus markedly improve their anticancer activity. Therefore, our designed carrier-free, redox-sensitive CPT-ss-Ara nanoparticles might have promising clinical application to combat cancers.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2017
·Vol. 46
·期 37
·12675-12682
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IF 4.029
Taotao Lv,Di Li,Yuanzhi Hong,Bifu Luo,Dongbo Xu,Min Chen,Weidong Shi
The development of Z-scheme heterojunction photocatalytic systems is a promising strategy to produce hydrogen and for pollutant degradation. In this study, the direct Z-scheme CdS/Bi4V2O11 photocatalysts were synthesized via a two-step solvothermal method. The photocatalytic properties of the samples were measured by ciprofloxacin (CIP), tetracycline (TC) and rhodamine B (RhB) degradation under visible light (λ > 420 nm). In addition, a probable reaction mechanism for organic pollutants over CdS/Bi4V2O11 photocatalysts was also proposed based on the analysis of electron spin resonance (ESR) and active species capture experiments. The enhanced photocatalytic activity of CdS/Bi4V2O11 photocatalysts was ascribed to the efficient electron transfer of direct Z-scheme CdS/Bi4V2O11 photocatalysts.
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DRUG DELIVERY
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2016
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Guolian Ren,Dan Liu,Weiling Guo,Menglin Wang,Chunnuan Wu,Mengran Guo,Xiaoyu Ai,Yongjun Wang,Zhonggui He
There is a strong desire to develop docetaxel (DTX) formulation with good therapeutic effectiveness in view of serious adverse reactions of the commercial formulation of DTX (Taxotere®). In this study, a redox-responsive DTX-vitamin E prodrug was successfully formulated into liposomes with the drug loading of 4.14% ± 0.10%. Compared with DTX liposomes, the DTX prodrug liposomes (DPLs) showed good stability for 30-d shelf life and during dilution with different media. In vitro antitumor activity of DPLs on human prostatic carcinoma PC-3 cells and human lung cancer A549 cells was evaluated using cytotoxicity and apoptosis assays. In spite of a decrease in in vitro antitumor activity, the in vivo pharmacokinetic study reveals that DPLs exhibit significantly longer DTX plasma half-life (t1/2, 1.38-fold) and higher bioavailability (AUC0−t, 14.49-fold) compared with DTX liposomes. The antitumor activity of DPLs to the A549 tumor xenograft model showed selective accumulation in tumor tissue, significant inhibition the growth of the tumors and a much lower toxicity as seen in body weight loss, compared with DTX-Solution. Taken together, the results showed that DPLs is a promising strategy for DTX antitumor delivery.
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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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2017
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Lan Wang,Xiaojiao Kang,Daocheng Pan
Assisted with polyethylenimine, 4.0 L of water-soluble AgInS2 quantum dots (AIS QDs) were successfully synthesized in an electric pressure cooker. As-prepared QDs exhibit yellow emission with a photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield up to 32%. The QDs also show excellent water/buffer stability. The highly luminescent AIS QDs are used to explore their dual-functional behavior: detection of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)/glucose and cell imaging. The amino-functionalized AIS QDs show high sensitivity and specificity for H2O2 and glucose with detection limits of 0.42 and 0.90 μM, respectively. A linear correlation was established between PL intensity and concentration of H2O2 in the ranges of 0.5–10 μM and 10–300 μM, while the linear ranges were 1–10 μM and 10–1000 μM for detection of glucose. The AIS QDs reveal negligible cytotoxicity on HeLa cells. Furthermore, the luminescence of AIS QDs gives the function of optical imaging.
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DRUG DELIVERY
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2016
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IF 4.843
Daquan Chen,Shengnan Lian,Jingfang Sun,Zongliang Liu,Feng Zhao,Yongtao Jiang,Mingming Gao,Kaoxiang Sun,Wanhui Liu,Fenghua Fu
In this study, to develop a multifunctional targeting nano-carrier drug delivery system for cancer therapy, the novel pH-sensitive ketal based oligosaccharides of hyaluronan (oHA) conjugates were synthesized by chemical conjugation of hydrophobic menthone 1,2-glycerol ketal (MGK) to the backbone of oHA with the histidine as the linker of proton sponge effect. The multifunctional oHA conjugates, oHA-histidine-MGK (oHM) carried the pH-sensitive MGK as hydrophobic moieties and oHA as the target of CD44 receptor. The oHM could self-assemble to nano-sized spherical shape with the average diameters of 128.6 nm at pH 7.4 PBS conditions. The oHM nanoparticles (oHMN) could release encapsulated curcumin (Cur) with 82.6% at pH 5.0 compared with 49.3% at pH 7.4. The results of cytotoxicity assay indicated that encapsulated Cur in oHMN (Cur-oHMN) were stable and have less toxicity compared to Cur suspension. The anti-tumor efficacy in vivo suggested that Cur-oHMN suppressed tumor growth most efficiently. These results present the promising potential of oHMN as a stable and effective nano-sized pH-sensitive drug delivery system for cancer treatment.
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