Nature Communications
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2022
·Vol. 13
·期 1
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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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CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY
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2021
·Vol. 18
·期 11
·e2100301
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IF 2.408
Zhuojin Yang,Yi Zheng,Nafisa Tursumamat,Mingyan Zhu
Isorhamnetin is a natural flavonoid which shows a variety of biological activities such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antitumor. In order to identify the cellular binding protein of isorhamnetin as potential anti-cancer target, we first synthesized 3′- O -substituted quercetin as isorhamnetin homologues and evaluated the growth inhibitory activity of these derivatives on breast, colon and prostate cancer cell lines. The preliminary results showed that the 3′- O modification did not affect the cytotoxic activity of the scaffold. Analysis of the co-crystal structure and the docking pose of isorhamnetin with reported binding protein of isorhamnetin or quercetin indicated the 3′- O -substitution groups located outside of the binding pocket, which is in accordance with activity of 3′- O derivatives. Then a biotin conjugate of isorhamnetin with a tetraethylene glycol (PEG) 4 linker at the 3′ position was synthesized and the resulting probe retained the anti-proliferative activity on cancer cell lines, while the cellular fluorescence analysis showed the distribution of probe inside the cells which indicated the probe had limited cell permeability. Finally, pull down assay both in situ inside cells and in the cell lysates indicated the isorhamnetin biotin probe was capable of protein labeling in cell lysates. These findings provide the isorhamnetin 3′- O -biotin probe as a tool to reveal the target proteins of isorhamnetin. Graphical
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Journal of Chemistry
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2017
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Xiaofei Jiang,Nengling Zhang,Nanqian Xiong,Yi Liu,Jianfeng Cao,ShengXiang Qiu
Jatrorrhizine was considered as one of the active constituents of Coptis chinensis Franch. Herein, jatrorrhizine derivatives with substituted amino groups linked at the 3-position were designed, synthesized, and biologically evaluated as inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase. Jatrorrhizine derivatives inhibited the activity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) to a greater extent than the lead compound jatrorrhizine. All these jatrorrhizine derivatives were proved to be potent inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) with submicromolar IC50 values, but less sensitive to butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE), which suggests that these jatrorrhizine derivatives are selective for AChE/BuChE. Compound 3g gave the most potent inhibitor activity for AChE (IC50 = 0.301 μM), which is greater than the lead compound jatrorrhizine. All these results demonstrated that these jatrorrhizine derivatives are potential inhibitors for AChE.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2021
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Wenbo Li,Yilin Wang,Dongchen Li,Jiachi Jiang,Kunlan Li,Kaili Zhang,Qingda An,Shangru Zhai,Ligang Wei
The oxidative depolymerization of alkali lignin (AL) in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([C 2 C 1 im]OAc) system without additional catalyst was investigated under mild conditions (initial O 2 pressure of 1.5 MPa, 80 °C–100 °C). Compared with other ionic liquids (ILs), the cooperation of imidazolium cation and acetate anion successfully enhanced AL conversion. Among the investigated imidazolium acetate ILs with ethyl- to octyl-side chains, [C 2 C 1 im]OAc presented the best catalytic capacity for AL oxidative depolymerization. Adding an appropriate amount of water to [C 2 C 1 im]OAc can further improve the reaction efficiency. In the [C 2 C 1 im]OAc system with the addition of 0.10–0.25 mL of water, approximately 77 wt% AL was depolymerized into small molecule soluble products at 100 °C for 2 h. The extracted oil was composed mainly of phenolic derived compounds. With the use of the [C 2 C 1 im]OAc-based system, the specific inter-unit linkages of lignin were broken down, and residual lignin with low molecular weight and narrow polydispersity index (1.88–1.96) was obtained. Compared with that in AL conversion with fresh [C 2 C 1 im]OAc, only a minimal decrease (~3.2%) was observed with the recovered IL until the fifth cycle. These findings revealed that [C 2 C 1 im]OAc–based system is a simple and efficient catalytic system for lignin oxidative depolymerization.
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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2020
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Yixuan Lv,Yijun Zhang,Le Shi,Jian-Wen Shi,Jun Li,Zhihui Li,Xin Ji,Dandan Ma,Yonghong Cheng,Chunming Niu
As a kind of white light emitting diode (w-LED) with many advantages, rare-earth-free vanadate phosphor has attracted more and more attention. The oxygen vacancies and other surface defects in vanadate oxide have obvious effects on its structure and properties. In order to reveal the specific effects, we heat-treat the original LiCa 3 Mg(VO 4 ) 3 (LCMV) in an oxygen flow with different time to decrease oxygen vacancies, and find that the lattice distortion of [VO 4 ] tetrahedron caused by oxygen vacancy is effectively reduced. Meanwhile, the crystallinity of the treated samples increases, the surface defects decreases, and the fluorescence intensity increases. The variation of photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) with oxygen treatment time is as follows: the enhancement effect firstly reaches the strongest (69.34 %) within one hour, then begins to decline after two hours, and finally reaches the platform after three hours and remains basically unchanged. The reason for the enhancement of PLQY is the decrease of oxygen vacancy after one-hour treatment, and the reason for the decrease of PLQY after a further increased treatment time is that the absorption of oxygen and water in air caused by excessive surface defects introduced by oxygen treatment.
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Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
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2014
·Vol. 50
·期 1
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Ge H. Y.,Fang Z. J.,Qian B. H.
3-Arylcoumarins were conveniently synthesized in excellent yields by an iron(III) chloride-promoted tandem reaction using methoxy-substituted ( E )-2,3-diphenylpropenoic acids or their methyl esters. The structure of 3-(4-methoxyphenyl)coumarin was established from X-ray crystallographic data.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
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2017
·Vol. 93
·期 6
·1618-1626
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IF 3.135
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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GRAEFES ARCHIVE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY
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2015
·Vol. 253
·期 12
·2309-2315
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IF 1.908
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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JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE
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2018
·Vol. 83
·期 2
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Lingying Luo,Yun Bai,Guanghong Zhou
3-Amino-1,4-dimethyl-5H-pyrido[4,3-b]indole (Trp-P-1) is a group 2B carcinogen characterized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and great efforts have been taken to reduce Trp-P-1 mutagenicity to humans. In this study, the effect of a reduction of Trp-P-1 on intestinal absorption as a promising strategy was investigated. The data showed that when 20 mM Trp-P-1 cotransported with 10 mM of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), xanthan gum, or carrageenan, the absorption rate of Trp-P-1 was reduced by 31.5%, 49.5%, or 72.9% in MDCK-MDR1 cell monolayer, respectively; and 64.6%, 83.4%, or 64.1% in rat intestinal tissues, correspondingly. These 3 polysaccharides also reduced pharmacokinetic parameters, that is, C max , AUC 0-t , and AUC 0-∞ , after Trp-P-1 was given to rats intragastrically. However, gum arabic did not exhibit similar effects on Trp-P-1 absorption in vitro or in vivo . The Ames test showed that these 3 polysaccharides reduced Trp-P-1 mutagenicity to Salmonella typhimurium TA98, but gum arabic did not. Isothermal titration calorimetry assay indicated that Trp-P-1 interacted with these 3 polysaccharides. Thermodynamic study showed that the actual value of △ H <0, but its absolute value greater than the corresponding value of T∆S, suggest a specific interaction between Trp-P-1 and these 3 polysaccharides, probably through the hydrogen bond and/or ion interaction. Reduction of Trp-P-1 intestinal absorption using food additives could be one of the strategies to suppress Trp-P-1-induced carcinogenesis in human. Practical Application 1. This study provides insightful information for the food industry how gum arabic, xanthan gum, kappa carrageenan, and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose affect the absorption of Trp-P-1. 2. This study also provides novel information regarding a better formulation for meat products to reduce Trp-P-1 absorption.
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Materials Today Chemistry
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2023
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L. Liu,J. Su,X. Zhou,D. Liang,Y. Liu,R. Tang,Y. Xu,Y. Jiang,Z. Wei
Presently, the low ionic conductivity of Na super ionic conductor (NASICON) electrolytes is one of the main obstacles to the development of solid-state sodium batteries . Most researchers focus on the modified NASICON by doping with foreign elements and have not paid much attention to the effect of the composition changing by adjusting the ratio of elements in Na 1+x Zr 2 Si x P 3-x O 12 (0 ≤ x ≤ 3) on the ionic conductivity . In order to clarify the relationship between the ionic conductivity and the structure/composition of Na 1+x Zr 2 Si x P 3-x O 12 , the ionic conductivity dependence on the Si/P ratio is systematically investigated in this study. The obtained results demonstrate that the ionic conductivity variation of NASICON is close to an order of magnitude i.e. the ionic conductivity of Na 1+x Zr 2 Si x P 3-x O 12 is much more sensitive to the Si/P ratio in the structure. This means that it is crucial to control the composition during the preparation process to obtain the electrolyte with high ionic conductivity. The strong composition-dependent property of Na 1+x Zr 2 Si x P 3-x O 12 can be attributed to the change of current carrier concentration, crystal structure, and sintering property resulting from the Si/P ratio. The results are insightful for further understanding the conducting characteristics of Na 1+x Zr 2 Si x P 3-x O 12 material and its derivatives.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
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2022
·Vol. 40
·期 17
·2054-2060
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Mengping Chen,Lang Lang,Lei Chen,Xiaomei Wang,Cen Shi,Qiwen Sun,Yigong Xu,Juan Diwu,Shuao Wang
Comprehensive Summary The environmental contamination of uranium will occur in scenarios such as nuclear accidents and leakage from nuclear waste storage sites, which eventually leads to the internal uranium exposure of people, causing consequential injuries of renal failure, osteosarcoma, etc . The development of uranyl specific chelating agents that could sequester uranium in vivo is in urgent need and is important for the safe and efficient development of nuclear industry. Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) already serve as efficient uranium depletion materials in solutions of a wide range of pH and ionic strength for nuclear fuel recycling, uranium extraction from seawater, as well as environmental decontamination. Herein, a chromium-based nano-metal organic framework (nano-MOF) functionalized interiorly with 3,2-HOPO ligands, MIL-101-HOPO, is rationally synthesized. In vitro adsorption experiments show that MIL-101-HOPO exhibits high adsorption selectivity and fast adsorption kinetics for uranyl. The results of in vivo uranyl decorporation assays reveal that MIL-101-HOPO with the decoration of HOPO ligands on the interior wall exhibits significantly increased uranyl removal ratio in kidneys comparing to the pristine nMOFs, and is more effective than the clinically used ZnNa 3 -DTPA. All those results corroborate the interior functionalization of MOFs as an efficient strategy to develop promising uranyl decorporation agents.
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