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Jing Jiang,Chenyang Zhang,Meng Na,Shangqi Xu,Xiaoping Li,Shoubiao Zhou,Jihai Zhou
Soil cadmium (Cd) pollution has become increasingly severe, negatively affecting plant growth, soil safety, the ecological balance, and public health. Phytoremediation technology is an effective method for remediating soil Cd contamination because of its low cost, environmentally friendly nature, and minimal soil disturbance. However, phytoremediation efficiency is affected by factors such as the plant species, Cd concentration, and soil environment. In this study, a 180-day indoor potted experiment was conducted to explore the influences of various indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) levels on the growth, physiological and biochemical responses, Cd uptake, and soil enzyme activity of Cinnamomum (C.) camphora seedlings using 20 mg kg −1 Cd-contaminated soil with or without IAA treatments. The results showed that Cd stress significantly suppressed C. camphora seedling growth, whereas IAA application improved the basal diameter of seedlings by 22.22–133.33 %. This effect of IAA was observed primarily at low concentrations, while higher concentrations showed diminished effects. Compared to the Cd pollution treatment, adding 20 mg kg −1 IAA significantly enhanced the activities of antioxidant enzymes (SOD, POD, CAT), reduced the malondialdehyde (MDA) content, and decreased soil basal respiration (SBR). Moreover, IAA treatment promoted Cd uptake in the roots, stems, and leaves, and reduced the soil Cd content by 22.90–41.17 %. In conclusion, exogenous IAA addition effectively alleviates Cd stress by regulating the plant’s physiological and biochemical characteristics and soil enzyme activities. These findings suggest that the combined use of IAA and C. camphora represents a promising remediation method for soil heavy metal pollution.
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Marine Drugs
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·Vol. 23
·期 7
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Shijie Bi,Yating Cao,Shiyuan Fang,Yanyan Chu,Zixuan Zhang,Meng Li,Rilei Yu,Jinbo Yang,Yu Tang,Peiju Qiu
The internal tandem duplication mutation of FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3-ITD) is associated with high recurrence and mortality rates in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), making it a critical target for anti-AML therapies. Plinabulin is a diketopiperazines derivative that exhibits extensive anti-cancer potency by targeting β-tubulin. We designed and synthesized a novel FLT3 inhibitor, namely5-3, based on the structure of plinabulin and evaluated its effect on FLT3-ITD mutant AML cells. The results indicated that5-3potently and selectively inhibits the growth of mutant FLT3-expressingleukemia cells, and had no effect on FLT3 wide-type cancer cells, suggesting the antiproliferative activity of5-3depends highly on FLT3-ITD expression. Mechanically,5-3significantly suppressed the phosphorylation of FLT3 signaling pathway, including STAT5, Erk and Akt. Moreover, the efficiency of compound5-3is not associated with Plinabulin’s typical target, β-tubulin. In conclusion, the study identified diketopiperazine derivative as a novel FLT3-ITD selective inhibitor. These results demonstrated that5-3might be a drug candidate for the treatment of FLT3-ITD-positive AML.
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Journal of Ginseng Research
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Weimin Wang,Kaixuan Zhou,Zengshuai Fu,Yucheng Huang,Jianjun Deng,Daidi Fan,Haixia Yang
Background Alcohol-induced liver injury contributes to various liver diseases, with dietary interventions of ginsenosides being a promising solution. Ginsenosides, the major active compounds of Panax ginseng Meyer , are divided into protopanaxadiol (PPD) and protopanaxatriol (PPT) based on C-3 or C-6 glycosylation, which have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, but structure-activity relationships remain unclear. Methods Using C57BL/C mice with alcohol-induced liver injury, we evaluated Rg5 and F4 effects on liver function, inflammation, lipid deposition, apoptosis, alcohol metabolism, and lipid synthesis. Results Rg5 (60 mg/kg) demonstrated significantly superior efficacy to F4 in alleviating alcohol-induced liver injury, reducing lipid deposition through 33.9% and 25.8% decreases in serum triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol (TC) levels versus the F4 group. Additionally, Rg5 attenuated hepatic apoptosis by reducing BAX and cleaved-CASPASE-3 protein expression by 26.3% and 28.4% compared to F4. Rg5 enhanced alcohol metabolism through activation of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), thereby restoring AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) phosphorylation by 26.1% while reducing sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1 (SREBP-1) expression by 27.8% (compared to F4), with efficacy approaching that of positive control silymarin. Molecular docking revealed that the C-6 sugar moiety of F4 induced hydrogen bond donor repulsion, increasing hydrogen bond length and weakening binding stability with ADH, ALDH and AMPK, providing a structural basis for Rg5's superior hepatoprotective activity. Conclusion These findings highlight the critical influence of glycosylation position on hepatoprotective activity of ginsenosides, and provide insights into the structural modification of ginsenosides, which could contribute to the treatment of alcohol-related liver disease.
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Food Science & Nutrition
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·Vol. 13
·期 8
·e70756
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Jie Shi,Jingyi Ge,Zhenghai Zhang,Lianhui Wei,Yan Dong,Guowei Li,Qingli Yang,Jing Pan,Yanru Ji
This study aimed to investigate the antithrombotic activity of hemp seed peptides derived from trypsin hydrolysates and elucidate their molecular mechanisms using a ponatinib-induced zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) thrombosis model. Through ultrafiltration and LC–MS/MS analysis, we identified 1741 peptide sequences (< 3 kDa), with 67% distributed in the 0.5–1.5 kDa range. In vivo experiments demonstrated that 125 μg/mL hemp seed peptides significantly ameliorated ponatinib-induced thrombosis by increasing 16.55% cardiac erythrocyte staining intensity, enhancing 54.8% blood flow velocity, and restoring 11.2% intersegmental blood vessel diameters. In addition, the observed anticoagulant effect may be partially attributed to upregulated expression levels of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 ( vegfr1 ) and down-regulated expression levels of cysteinyl aspartate-specific proteinase-3 ( caspase-3 ) at the mRNA level. These findings propose hemp seed peptides as novel dietary antithrombotic agents with potential applications in functional food development.
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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANORGANISCHE UND ALLGEMEINE CHEMIE
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·Vol. 651
·期 3
·e202400210
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Ziyue Zhang,Zhuoer Cai,Yinan Zhang,Jian Chen,Xiu-Ni Hua,Baiwang Sun
The focus of this study is on the development of novel host–guest inclusion compounds, which is a crucial molecule model for the synthesis of dielectric phase transition materials. In this research, a new host–guest inclusion compound is successfully synthesized by selecting 18-crown-6 as the host and 3-aminocyclobutanone as the guest molecule. The thermal behavior and crystal structure of the compound are analyzed in this article. It is found that the compound exhibits a reversible phase transition near 147 K, accompanied by a dielectric anomaly, exhibiting dielectric switching characteristics. The 18-crown-6 molecule and the 3-aminocyclobutanone molecule are connected via hydrogen bonding. Furthermore, the enthalpy changes of the heating process and cooling process are also calculated. This finding is expected to yield valuable new insights into the design of host–guest inclusions.
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Nature Communications
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Li Ming-Ding,Shen Xiao-Quan,Chen Xin,Gan Jia-Ming,Wang Fang,Li Jian,Wang Xiao-Liang,Shen Qun-Dong
With speeding up development of 5 G chips, high-efficient thermal structure and precise management of tremendous heat becomes a substantial challenge to the power-hungry electronics. Here, we demonstrate an interpenetrating architecture of electrocaloric polymer with highly thermally conductive pathways that achieves a 240% increase in the electrocaloric performance and a 300% enhancement in the thermal conductivity of the polymer. A scaled-up version of the device prototype for a single heat spot cooling of 5 G chip is fabricated utilizing this electrocaloric composite and electromagnetic actuation. The continuous three-dimensional (3-D) thermal conductive network embedded in the polymer acts as nucleation sites of the ordered dipoles under applied electric field, efficiently collects thermal energy at the hot-spots arising from field-driven dipolar entropy change, and opens up the high-speed conduction path of phonons. The synergy of two components, thus, tackles the challenge of sluggish heat dissipation of the electroactive polymers and their contact interfaces with low thermal conductivity, and more importantly, significantly reduces the electric energy for switching the dipolar states during the electrocaloric cycles, and increases the manipulable entropy at the low fields. Such a feasible solution is inevitable to the precisely fixed-point thermal management of next-generation smart microelectronic devices.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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Xuan Wang,Shuo Huang,Benben Wei,Min Liu,Bo Yang,Ruoqing Liu,Hongyun Jin
All-solid-state batteries with oxide electrolytes and high-nickel layered oxide cathodes (LiNixCoyMnzO2 and LiNixCoyAlzO2, x + y + z = 1, x ≥ 60%) have received widespread attention owing to their high energy density and high safety. However, they generally suffer from interfacial structural instability when coupled with solid-state electrolytes, which strongly diminishes the longevity of the battery. In this work, we propose adding a sacrificial additive C60 to the catholyte buffer layer between Li1.4Al0.4Ti1.6(PO4)3 (LATP) and LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 (NCM811) to enhance the electrochemical stability under high-voltage operating conditions. A uniform and robust cathode–electrolyte interphase (CEI) film enriched with LixPOyFz, LiPxFy, and C60Fn is spontaneously formed on the surface of the cathode particles. In addition, the NCM811/Li solid-state battery delivers a discharge capacity of 150.3 mAh g–1 with a retention of 85% after 200 charge–discharge cycles at 0.5 C. This study offers a practical approach toward realizing LATP-based all-solid-state high-voltage batteries characterized by exceptional cycling stability.
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Advanced Energy Materials
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·Vol. 14
·期 3
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Junhua Zhou,Chi Zhang,Chuan Xie,Huimin Wang,Haining Fan,Yanpeng Guo,Chao Wang,Fan Chen,Yichun Ding,Qiyao Huang,Zijian Zheng
Lithium–sulfur battery (LSB) possesses high theoretical energy density, but its poor cycling stability and safety issues significantly restrict progress in practical applications. Herein, a low-cost and simple Al(OH) 3 -based modification of commercial separator, which renders the battery outstanding fire-retardant and stable cycling, is reported. The modification is carried out by a simple blade coating of an ultrathin composite layer, mainly consisting of Al(OH) 3 nanoparticles and conductive carbon, on the cathode side of the separator. The Al(OH) 3 shows strong chemical absorption ability toward Lewis-based polysulfides and outstanding fire retardance through a self-decomposition mechanism under high heat, while the conductive carbon material acts as a top current collector to prevent dead polysulfide. LSB using the Al(OH) 3 -modified separator shows an extremely low average capacity decade per cycle during 1000 cycles at 2 C (0.029%, 1 C = 1600 mA g −1 ). The pouch cell exhibiting high energy density (426 Wh kg −1 ) can also steadily cycle for more than 100 cycles with high capacity retention (70.2% at 0.1 C). The effectiveness and accessibility of this Al(OH) 3 modification strategy will hasten the practical application progress of LSBs.
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GRAEFES ARCHIVE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY
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2015
·Vol. 253
·期 12
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Zheng Xiao-Yu,Li Lin-Jie,Li Wei,Jiang Pei-Fang,Shen Hong-Qiang,Chen Ying-Hu,Chen Xi
Background To study the inhibition of retinoblastoma cell viability by two commonly used autophagy inhibitors, chloroquine (CQ) and 3-methyladenine (3-MA), alone or in combination with the conventional chemotherapeutic drug vincristine (VCR), and to investigate whether the mechanisms of these drugs are related to inhibition of autophagy. Methods On retinoblastoma cell line HXO-Rb44, VCR, CQ and 3-MA were used individually or combined. The cell viability was determined by CCK8 method, and the cellular autophagic activity was determined by Western blotting of LC3 and p62. Caspase 3 fragmentation and Akt activation was also determined by Western blotting. Results VCR induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in HXO-Rb44 cells, but only inhibited autophagy at relatively high doses. Both CQ and 3-MA were synergistic with VCR to inhibit the growth of retinoblastoma cells and the combinational use significantly reduced the dosage of each drug. The lowest effective dose of CQ and 3-MA was most efficient to add on VCR; however, such dose was not sufficient to suppress autophagy in these cells. CQ could directly induce caspase activation, while 3-MA significantly inhibited Akt phosphorylation. Conclusions CQ and 3-MA were synergistic with VCR to inhibit retinoblastoma cells. Our result suggested a novel strategy to combine CQ or 3-MA with VCR to reduce the side effects of each drug. However, lack of change in the autophagic activity when using the two drugs at lower doses suggests multiple mechanisms of action of the same drug at different doses. At higher doses, the drugs could inhibit autophagy, while at lower doses, they suppress tumor growth via autophagy-independent mechanisms.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS
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2020
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Xiaoyan Zhou,Jinglan Liang,Qunfeng Liu,Dequn Huang,Jiake Xu,Heng Gu,Wei Xue
Green tea extract epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), as a kind of natural active compounds, has become a research hotspot in cancer treatment. However, poor stability, low bioavailability and antitumor efficacy limit the application of EGCG. In this study, mesoporous dopamine (MPDA) with high drug loading and good biocompatibility loaded EGCG, garlic extract diallyl trisulfide (DATS) and photosensitizer (indocyanine green, ICG) by π-π stacking and hydrophobic-hydrophobic interaction, and the nano-system involved filling the mesoporous of the MPDA with phase change material (1-tetradecanol, 1-TD) molecules, which acted as a thermosensitive gatekeeper. The results indicated that [email protected] has an excellent photothermal effect and good stability. Due to the solid–liquid phase transition characteristics of the phase change material, [email protected] could control the release of drugs under near-infrared laser irradiation. Besides, cytotoxicity and apoptosis experiments showed that MPDA-ICG/EGCG/ [email protected] could be efficiently inhibited 4T1 cell proliferation and accelerate cell apoptosis than use diallyl trisulfide or EGCG alone, which means that the combination of natural active compounds EGCG and diallyl trisulfide has excellent synergy and can effectively improve the antitumor effect of EGCG. Moreover, this nano-system exhibited non-toxicity and good blood compatibility. This study provides a promising and effective strategy for improving the antitumor efficacy of natural active compound EGCG.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
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Yanling Liu,Manman Tan,Chunjuan Fang,Xiaoyan Chen,Huan Liu,Ying Feng,Yujuan Zhang,Weiping Min
Tumor-specific targeted delivery is a major obstacle to clinical treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here we have developed a novel multi-functional nanostructure GAL-GNR-siGPC-3, which consists of Galactose (GAL) as the HCC-targeting moiety, golden nanorods (GNR) as a framework to destroy tumor cells under laser irradiation, and siRNA of Glypican-3 (siGPC-3) which induce specifically gene silence of GPC-3 in HCC. Glypican-3 (GPC-3) gene is highly associated with HCC and is a new potential target for HCC therapy. On the other hand, Gal can specifically bind to the asialoglycoprotein receptor which is highly expressed on membrane of hepatoma cells. GAL and siGPC-3 can induce targeted silencing of GPC-3 gene in hepatoma cells. In vivo and in vitro results showed that GAL-GNR-siGPC-3 could significantly induce downregulation of GPC-3 gene and inhibit the progression of HCC. More notably, GAL-GNR-siGPC-3 could induce both GPC-3 gene silencing and photothermal effects, and the synergistic treatment of tumors was more effective than individual treatments. In summary, GAL-GNR-siGPC-3 achieved a synergistic outcome to the treatment of cancer, which opens up a new approach for the development of clinical therapies for HCC.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
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2017
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Sheng-Jie Yue,Muhammad Bilal,Shu-Qi Guo,Hong-Bo Hu,Wei Wang,Xue-Hong Zhang
BACKGROUND Trans -2, 3-dihydro-3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (DHHA) is a valuable metabolic intermediate for the biosynthesis of wide-ranging benzoic acid derivatives with enormous biological or pharmaceutical activities. Pseudomonas chlororaphis GP72 is a non-pathogenic biocontrol strain that displays unique capability to produce phenazines. Nevertheless, DHHA production is quite low by the wild type strains, which necessitates yield improvement by constructing engineered strains for large-scale biotechnological applications. RESULTS In this study, two negative regulatory genes namely rsmE and lon were successively deactivated in the DA4 strain. The resulting engineered DA6 strain produced a significantly high titer of DHHA (20.6% higher than that of DA4). The influence of varying pH from 6.2 to 8.2 on DHHA production was studied in a 6-L benchtop fermenter. A controlled broth pH of 7.2 stimulated maximum DHHA production by the engineered DA6 strain. A DO-stat based fed-batch system maintaining a constant DO level (about 20%) accompanied by a glycerol feeding strategy was applied. Highest DHHA production using this approach was recorded to be 10.06 g L -1 , which was 31% higher than with traditional batch cultivation. CONCLUSION The production of DHHA in metabolically engineered GP72 was considerably improved by inactivating two negative regulatory genes in a fed-batch mode. It is concluded that fed-batch fermentation with intermittent glycerol feeding and pH-control was an effective approach to improve DHHA production yield. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry
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