ACS Central Science
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2023
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Ruoxi Wang,Yu Wang,Yuting Niu,Danqing He,Shanshan Jin,Zixin Li,Lisha Zhu,Liyuan Chen,Xiaolan Wu,Chengye Ding,Tianhao Wu,Xinmeng Shi,He Zhang,Chang Li,Xin Wang,Zhengwei Xie,Weiran Li,Yan Liu
Maintaining the stemness of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) is crucial for bone homeostasis and regeneration. However, in vitro expansion and bone diseases impair BMMSC stemness, limiting its functionality in bone tissue engineering. Using a deep learning-based efficacy prediction system and bone tissue sequencing, we identify a natural small-molecule compound, dihydroartemisinin (DHA), that maintains BMMSC stemness and enhances bone regeneration. During long-term in vitro expansion, DHA preserves BMMSC stemness characteristics, including its self-renewal ability and unbiased differentiation. In an osteoporosis mouse model, oral administration of DHA restores the femur trabecular structure, bone density, and BMMSC stemness in situ. Mechanistically, DHA maintains BMMSC stemness by promoting histone 3 lysine 9 acetylation via GCN5 activation both in vivo and in vitro. Furthermore, the bone-targeted delivery of DHA by mesoporous silica nanoparticles improves its therapeutic efficacy in osteoporosis. Collectively, DHA could be a promising therapeutic agent for treating osteoporosis by maintaining BMMSC stemness.
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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
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2023
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Hong Liu,Yang Huang,Jing Yang,Xuejiao Xu,Qiaomei Dai,Yuwei Zhang,Li Zhao,Mengdi Zhang,Jing Zhang,Tonghui Liu,Lili Zhong
Estrogens have been demonstrated to inhibit age-related cognitive decline via binding to estrogen receptors (ERs). As a natural flavonoid component of Cuscuta Chinensis Lam. , Kaempferol-3- O -glucoside (K-3-G) not only possesses anti-neuroinflammatory potential but also functions as an agonist for ERα and ERβ. This study aimed to determine whether K-3-G improved cognition during the aging process, with an emphasis on its effect on microglial inflammation. In vivo , K-3-G (5 or 10 mg/kg/day) was orally given to the senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 (SAMP8) mice from six to eight-month old. In addition to mitigating the memory and learning deficits of SAMP8 mice, K-3-G upregulated the expression of ERα and ERβ in their hippocampal CA1 region, with the higher dose being more effective. Less Iba-1 + microglial cells presented in SAMP8 mice treated with K-3-G. The formation of NLR Family Pyrin Domain Containing 3 (NLRP3) complex, production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress-related markers, as well as expression of pro-apoptotic proteins were reduced by K-3-G. In vitro , BV2 microglial cells exposed to oligomeric amyloid beta (Aβ) 1-42 were treated with 100 μM K-3-G. K-3-G showed similar anti-inflammatory effects on BV2 cells as in vivo . K-3-G-induced alterations were partly diminished by fulvestrant, an ER antagonist. Moreover, dual-luciferase reporter system demonstrated that K-3-G induced ER expression by activating the transcription of estrogen-response elements (EREs). Collectively, these findings demonstrate that K-3-G may be a novel therapeutic agent for senescence-related cognitive impairment by inhibiting microglial inflammation through its action on ERs.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2023
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Nitong Bu,Lin Wang,Di Zhang,Huimin Xiao,Xiaoman Liu,Xianrui Chen,Jie Pang,Chen Ma,Ruojun Mu
Biodegradable gelatin (G) food packaging films are in increasing demand as the substitution of petroleum-based preservative materials. However, G packaging films universally suffer from weak hydrophobicity in practical applications. Constructing a hydrophobic micro/nanocoating with low surface energy is an effective countermeasure. However, the poor compatibility with the hydrophilic G substrate often leads to the weak interfacial adhesion and poor durability of the hydrophobic coating. To overcome this obstacle, we used (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APS) as an interfacial bridging agent to prepare a highly hydrophobic, versatile G nanocomposite film. Specifically, tannic acid (TA)-modified nanohydroxyapatite (n-HA) particles (THA) were introduced in G matrix (G-THA) to improve the mechanical properties. Micro/nanostructure with low surface energy composed of nanozinc oxide (Nano-ZnO)/APS/stearic acid (SA) (NAS) was constructed on the surface of G-THA film (G-THA/NAS) through one-step spray treatment. Consequently, as-prepared G-THA/NAS film presented excellent mechanics (tensile strength: 7.6 MPa, elongation at break: 292.7%), water resistance ability (water contact angle: 150.4°), high UV-shielding (0% transmittance at 200 nm), degradability (100% degradation rate after buried in the natural soil for 15 days), antioxidant (78.8% of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical scavenging activity), and antimicrobial (inhibition zone against Escherichia coli: 15.0 mm and Staphylococcus aureus: 16.5 mm) properties. It should be emphasized that the bridging function of APS significantly improves the interfacial adhesion ability of the NAS coating with more than 95% remaining area after the cross-cut adhesion test. Meanwhile, the G-THA/NAS film could maintain stable and long-lasting hydrophobic surfaces against UV radiation, high temperature, and abrasion. Based on these multifunctional properties, the G-THA/NAS film was successfully applied as a liquid packaging material. To sum up, we provide a feasible and effective method to prepare high-performance green packaging films.
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2023
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Xinlei Ji,Jia Kou,Gökalp Gözaydın,Xi Chen
Chitin biorefinery offers a unique opportunity to sustainably produce highly-valued organonitrogen compounds such as the versatile pharmaceutical precursor 3-acetamido-5-acetylfuran (3A5AF), bypassing the Haber process and mitigating the consumption of fossil feedstocks. However, the reported protocols engaged large quantities of toxic organic solvents and required harsh conditions. In this work, a highly efficient catalytic system has been developed in the nontoxic, biobased γ-valerolactone (GVL) solvent under relatively mild conditions. 3A5AF was selectively obtained with an unprecedent yield of 75.3% at 140 °C for 2 h by adding NH 4 SCN and HCl. The high yielding was exclusively promoted by a dissolution-dehydration effect. Based on the UPLC-TOF-MS and NMR analyses, the presence of NH 4 SCN has induced a very rapid NAG conversion possibly by coordinating with the acetamido group and the hydroxyl groups, and the 3A5AF product was obtained in a subsequent dehydration pathway from NAG with the Chromogen I and Chromogen III as the intermediates.
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ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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2023
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Junjie Li,Wei Feng,Shichun Weng,Zichao Guo,Wanghua Chen
3,4-bis(4-Aminofurazano-3-yl) furoxan (DATF) is a key precursor for the high-energy explosive 3,4-bis(4-nitrofurazano-3-yl) furoxan (DNTF), and it is also a high-nitrogen content energetic material. In this paper, the synthesis process of DATF was characterized using the HPLC technique, and the effects of four reaction parameters have been thoroughly studied. The thermal risk analysis for DATF synthesis was conducted with a reaction calorimeter (RC1) and an accelerating rate calorimeter. It was found that extracting the intermediate 3-amino-4-oxycyanofurazan from the aqueous to organic phases was an important way to improve the yield of DATF. Therefore, hydrophobic ethyl acetate was selected as one reaction solvent. The higher yield of DTAF obtained was about 60%. In addition, HPLC monitoring and reaction calorimetry results indicated that the rate of diazotization and decomposition of diazonium salt was feeding-controlled, and the cycloaddition reaction was a slow process. Most of the reaction heat has been released by the diazotization and decomposition of diazonium salt, while the heat effect of cycloaddition was not significant. Thermal stability analysis supported the conclusion that the decomposition of the reaction mixture was hardly possible to be triggered by the reaction heat. The thermal risk of DATF synthesis was low.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2023
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Le Ma,Xiansheng Li,Xuehan Chen,Jingyu Li,Pengfei Liu,Changting Wei,Qingshan Ma,Leimeng Xu,Wenhua Zhang,Jizhong Song
Mixed halide CsPb(Br/Cl) 3 quantum dots (QDs) exhibit fine tunable blue light and narrow photoluminescence (PL) full-width at half-maximum (FWHM), which has attracted significant attention as a promising candidate to realize a new generation of blue light technology. However, the introduction of Cl − makes it very easy to be eroded by water in the environment, which will lead to deep-level defects and degrade the luminescence and stability of QDs. Here, we propose to introduce tetra- n -octylammonium oxalate (TOAOxa) to improve the water-resistance stability and exciton recombination of CsPb(Br/Cl) 3 QDs and QD-based light-emitting diodes (QLEDs). The oxalate ion (Oxa 2− ) of TOAOxa could form strong interaction with undercoordinated Pb 2+ on CsPb(Br/Cl) 3 QD surface, which was confirmed by FTIR and XPS analysis. Oxa 2− passivated QDs (Oxa-QDs) exhibited improved photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and enhanced water-resistance stability compared to pristine QDs. For example, after soaking in water–acetone co-solvent for 1 h, Oxa-QDs can maintain the initial cubic morphology and 43.9% of initial PL intensity, while the morphology and luminescence of pristine QDs are almost damaged. Based on the above concept, the Oxa-QD-based QLED presented a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 4.0%, and operational lifetime (T 50 ) of 84 s, which was a 5-fold enhancement in EQE, and 7-fold enhancement in stability compared to pristine QLED, respectively. Besides, the Oxa-QD-based QLED exhibits better stability in high-humidity air. To sum up, the Oxa 2− passivation strategy has significantly improved the efficiency and water-resistant stability of QDs and devices and would rapidly promote the development of blue-emitting QDs.
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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2023
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Yue Pan,Shan Xu,Zhouping Wang,Caiyun Jiang,Xiaoyuan Ma
Background Histamine is a kind of biogenic amine with strong toxicity and potential carcinogenicity . Many traditional methods of detecting histamine have the disadvantages of cumbersome detection steps, expensive equipment, and high professional requirements for staff. In contrast, SERS has become the preferred method for quantitative analysis of histamine because of rich fingerprint information, rapidity and economy. However, most of SERS substrates still have technical problems, such as poor stability, low sample collection rate, and detection efficiency. Therefore, there is a great need for new strategies to develop high-performance SERS substrates based sensors. Results In our study, a sensitive SERS aptasensor for the detection of histamine was synthesized. The assembly was formed between IRMOF-3@Au/PDMS (flexible SERS substrate) and AuNR-DTNB@Ag-HA apt (Raman signal probe with both the target capture ability) via π-π stacking interaction from HA aptamer and IRMOF-3. Consequently, the SERS signal of the assembly derived from DTNB reached highest due to the synergistic enhancement effect by AuNR@Ag and IRMOF-3@Au. Meanwhile, HA aptamer can specifically capture histamine, therefore histamine addition competitively bound to the probe, leading to a corresponding decrease in the DTNB signal value on the SERS substrate. The SERS intensity at 1331 cm −1 presented a good linear relationship towards the logarithmic value of histamine concentrations ranging from 0.0001 mg/L to 400 mg/L (R 2 = 0.990) with the LOD of 3.6 × 10 −5 mg/L. Furthermore, the application in wine samples demonstrated the accuracy and applicability of the developed sensor. Significance This method effectively improves substrate stability, detection sensitivity and signal response immediacy to amplify the SERS sensor, thus satisfying the histamine detection requirements of various systems. According to this aptasensor design, our strategy can be extended to create other MOF-based SERS substrates for accurately detecting relative targets to ensure food safety.
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PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY
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2023
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Haidong Teng,Kaitong Chen,Lan Wang,Jianping Wu,Gang Xu
l -syn-3-[4-(methylsulfonyl)] phenylserine is a key industrial intermediate for the synthesis of florfenicol, thiamphenicol , and other products. l -Threonine aldolase can synthesize l -syn-3-[4-(methylsulfonyl)] phenylserine from glycine and 4-methylsulphonyl benzaldehyde directly. However, the selectivity of free l -threonine aldolase was difficult to meet the requirement of industrialization. Here, we selected the suitable site to insert His tag as immobilized site to improve the selectivity of l -threonine aldolase based on the molecular dynamics simulation and prior protein engineering. The phenanthroline was coupled to the surface of magnetic nanoparticles coated with silicon and thus enabled the selective and oriented immobilization of His-tagged l -threonine aldolase. Due to magnetic nanoparticles coated with silicon as supports, it was easy to separate the residual reactant and impurities from the immobilized enzyme by magnetic attraction. Moreover, the immobilization was combined with the purification of free enzymes through directional immobilization, which avoided heterozyme linking supports and improved the utilization efficiency of supports. Our study demonstrates an effective approach: how to analyze and select enzyme-targeted ligation sites in conjunction with previous modifications of engineered bacteria, and the immobilized enzyme obtained also provided a good candidate for the industrial production of l -syn-3-[4-(methylsulfonyl)] phenylserine.
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Yong-Jun Huang,Xiao-Lin Zhong,Yi-Peng Zang,Ming-Han Yang,Jing Lin,Wei-Min Chen
The natural prenylated chalcone isobavachalcone ( IBC ) shows good antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria but is ineffective against Gram-negative bacteria, most likely due to the outer membrane barrier of Gram-negative bacteria. The Trojan horse strategy has been shown to be an effective strategy to overcome the reduction in the permeability of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. In this study, eight different 3-hydroxy-pyridin-4(1 H )-one-isobavachalcone conjugates were designed and synthesized based on the siderophore Trojan horse strategy. The conjugates exhibited 8- to 32-fold lower minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and 32- to 177-fold lower half-inhibitory concentrations (IC 50 s) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 as well as clinical multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains compared to the parent IBC under iron limitation. Further studies showed that the antibacterial activity of the conjugates was regulated by the bacterial iron uptake pathway under different iron concentration conditions . Studies on the antibacterial mechanism of conjugate 1b showed that it exerts antibacterial activity by disrupting cytoplasmic membrane integrity and inhibiting cell metabolism. Finally, conjugate 1b showed a lower cytotoxic effects on Vero cells than IBC and a positive therapeutic effect in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria PAO1. Overall, this work demonstrates that IBC can be delivered to Gram-negative bacteria when combined with 3-hydroxy-pyridin-4(1H)-ones as siderophores and provides a scientific basis for the development of effective antibacterial agents against Gram-negative bacteria.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2023
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Xiaoping Jiang,Yue Guo,Lixi Wang,Qitu Zhang
Dynamic photoluminescence and photochromism are two critical technologies applied in advanced anti-counterfeiting and encryption. In this work, an innovative phosphor of CaAl 12 O 19 :Eu 2+/3+ combining the features of dynamic photoluminescence and photochromism is developed for the first time. After being irradiated by a portable 254 nm ultraviolet lamp, the photoluminescent color of the phosphor can dynamically change from red to magenta in dark field, and the surface color can dynamically alter from white to light brown in bright field. Based on these two appealing features, an application in advanced anti-counterfeiting and encryption is designed which can write, encrypt, and erase information successfully, thus guaranteeing information security. Furthermore, a composite material of CaAl 12 O 19 :Eu 2+/3+ /PDMS is fabricated for application in advanced anti-counterfeiting and encryption in both dark and bright fields, which is difficult to be replicated.
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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
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2023
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IF 3.3
Wen-Hui Zhang,Zi-Yue Chen,Ren-Ming Liu,Xiong-Wei Liu,Bo-Wen Pan,Jian Zhou,Ying Zhou,You-Ping Tian,Xiong-Li Liu
Herein, previously unreported trimethylindolenines serving as useful C–N synthons in [3+2] cycloaddition reactions of donor–acceptor 3-isothiocyanato oxindoles to build a library of spiro[oxindole-thioxoimidazolidine-indoline] hybrids are described. A wide range of intriguing and complex products bearing three pharmacophores and three adjacent quaternary stereocentres were smoothly afforded in up to 92% yield, >20 : 1 dr, under catalyst-free conditions. Moreover, this strategy further expands the skeletal diversity of polyheterocycles, which will aid the search for new bioactive molecules.
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LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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Yujie Chen,Ruhui Liu,Jingyan Li,Yanjie Wang,Chunfeng Guo,Xin Lü
1-Oleoyl-2-palmitoyl-3-linoleoylglycerol (OPL) is the most abundant triacylglycerol (TAG) molecule in Chinese human milk. The selectivity of three lipases including Rhizomucor miehei lipase (RML), Thermomyces lanuginose lipase (TL), and Candida antarctica lipase (CALB) in OPL synthesis were evaluated. The effects of different reaction conditions on selectivity were first investigated. Unexpectedly, the three sn -1,3 regioselectivity lipases, also have selectivity for the structure of product TAGs. Compared with symmetric TAGs, lipases had poor selectivity toward asymmetric OPL. Furthermore, molecular simulations were used to deeply understand the molecular factors affecting lipase selectivity. The results showed that hydrophobic interactions, lipases lid domain flexibility, and the stability of hydrogen bonds between lipases and TAGs were the main molecular factors responsible for the selectivity of lipases.
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