Food Science and Human Wellness
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2023
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Xiaoyu Chen,Hongyuan Zhao,Fanqiang Meng,Libang Zhou,Zhaoxin Lu,Yingjian Lu
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with liver dysfunction and intestinal dysbiosis. Bioactive peptides (BAPs) have been reported to ameliorate T2DM by preventing oxidative damage to the liver. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens fmb50 produces the lipopeptide surfactin with a wide range of biological activities. The effects of surfactin on T2DM, on the other hand, have not been studied. In the present study, 80 mg/kg body weight surfactin supplementation lowered fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels by 21.05 % and insulin resistance (IR) by 18.18 % compared with those in the T2DM group, reduced inflammation, and increased antioxidant activity in mice with T2DM induced by a high-fat diet (HFD) and streptozotocin (STZ). According to further research, surfactin administration reduced Firmicutes-to-Bacteroidetes ratios while increasing Bifidobacterium abundance by 20 times and the level of the tight junction protein Occludin by 18.38 % and ZO-1 by 66.60 %. Furthermore, surfactin also improved hepatic glucose metabolism by activating the adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signalling pathway, increasing glycogen synthesis and glucose transporter 2 (GLUT2) protein expression while reducing glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) protein expression. In addition, the increased Bifidobacterium abundance indirectly reduced the liver burden of the metabolic products indole, cresol and amine produced by saprophytic bacteria. All of these findings revealed that surfactin not only ameliorated HFD/STZ-induced gut dysbiosis and preserved intestinal barrier integrity but also enhanced hepatic glucose metabolism and detoxification function in T2DM mice. The gut microbiota appeared to be important in controlling glucose metabolism, IR, fat accumulation, inflammation and antioxidation, according to Spearman’s correlation coefficients. All data indicated that surfactin alleviated hyperglycaemia in mice with T2DM induced by HFD/STZ.
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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2023
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Xiaolong Yu,Huanhuan Xing,Jianteng Sun,Xiaodong Du,Guining Lu,Lizhong Zhu
Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) as widely utilized plasticizer has aroused increasing concerns since its endocrine disrupting effects and continuous accumulation in biota. To date, the interaction mechanism between DEHP and rice plants has not been clearly illustrated at molecular level. Here, we investigated biological transformation and response of rice plants ( Oryza sativa L.) to DEHP at realistic exposure concentrations. Nontargeted screening by UPLC-QTOF-MS was used to verify 21 transformation products derived from phase I metabolism (hydroxylation and hydrolysis) and phase II metabolism (conjugation with amino acids, glutathione, and carbohydrates) in rice. MEHHP-asp, MEHHP-tyr, MEHHP-ala, MECPP-tyr and MEOHP-tyr as the conjugation products with amino acids are observed for the first time. Transcriptomics analyses unraveled that DEHP exposure had strong negative effects on genes associated with antioxidative components synthesis, DNA binding, nucleotide excision repair, intracellular homeostasis, and anabolism. Untargeted metabolomics revealed that metabolic network reprogramming in rice roots was induced by DEHP, including nucleotide metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, amino acid synthesis, lipid metabolism, synthesis of antioxidant component, organic acid metabolism and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis. The integrated analyses of interaction between differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and differentially expressed metabolites (DEMs) endorsed that metabolic network regulated by DEGs was significantly interfered by DEHP, resulting in cell dysfunction of roots and visible growth inhibition. Overall, these finding generated fresh perspective for crops security caused by plasticizer pollution and enhanced the public focus on dietary risk.
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Molecular Catalysis
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2023
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Xuan Gao,Zhihui Li,Dongsheng Zhang,Baoquan Zhang,Yanji Wang
Efficient and safe conversion of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) to 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furancarbonitrile (HMFC) with hydroxylamine zinc chloride salt (ZnCl 2 ·2NH 2 OH) obtained from a novel method was developed. Without a catalyst, free NH 2 OH could react with HMF to produce HMFC with a yield of 41% at 55 °C. ZnCl 2 was an appropriate catalyst that increased HMFC yield to 64%. However, the reaction has a potential explosion safety hazard and a low effective utilization rate of NH 2 OH due to the easy decomposition property of free NH 2 OH. To address these issues, ZnCl 2 ·2NH 2 OH was prepared to serve as a hydroxylamine stabilizer, catalyst, and nitrogen source in the synthesis of HMFC. Therefore, NH 2 OH could be slowly released to participate in the reaction, slowing the invalid decomposition and increasing the utilization rate of elemental N. Under optimal conditions of n(HMF): n(NH 2 OH) = 1:1.5, 100 °C for 20 min with acetonitrile as solvent, the yield of HMFC was 100%. A plausible reaction mechanism for HMFC synthesis was also proposed.
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VACUUM
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2022
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Chang Xu,Jian Zhang,Huanjun Lu,Xiao Li,Jingchun Lv,Shaohui Zhang
In this work, one-dimensional (1D) conductive MOFs Ni 3 (HHTP) 2 with nanorod-like morphology on the surface of a woven fabric was synthesized by an in-situ growth method. Based on a three-electrode system, the effects of substrate concentration, scan rate and current density on electrode properties were investigated, respectively. The results showed that Ni 3 (HHTP) 2 @ woven fabric-3 (NHWF-3) demonstrated the largest area capacitance at 5 mV s −1 and reached up to 360 μF cm −2 at 20 μA cm −2 . Most importantly, the material still maintained 58.3% (210 μF cm −2 ) of the initially areal specific capacitance when the current density was increased 5 times to 100 μA cm −2 . According to the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) curve, NHWF-3 has the smallest semicircle radius in the high-frequency region, indicating that it has the lowest internal transfer resistance and the best conductivity. Thus, this study provides a good example for the simple preparation and practical applications of conductive MOFs composites.
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FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY
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2023
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Yunyi Wang,Zhaolan Wei,Ke Xu,Xuan Wang,Xiao Gao,Qi Han,Shuwei Wang,Mingqing Chen
Nanoplastics have become ubiquitous in the global environment and have attracted increasing attention. However, whether there is an influence between exposure to nanoplastics and diabetes is unclear. To determine the effects of exposure to Polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs) and evaluate the underlying mechanisms, mice were orally exposed to PS-NPs at dosages of 1, 10, 30 mg/kg/day for 8 weeks, alone or combined with a high fat diet and streptozocin (STZ) injection. Our data showed that exposure to 30 mg/kg/day PS-NPs alone induced a significant increase in blood glucose, glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. Combined with a high fat diet and STZ injection, PS-NPs exposure markedly aggravated oxidative stress , glucose intolerance, insulin tolerance and insulin resistance, and induced lesions in the liver and pancreas. PS-NPs exposure could decrease the phosphorylation of AKT and GSK3β, and treatment with SC79, a selective AKT activator, could increase the level of AKT and GSK3β phosphorylation, effectively alleviating the increase in ROS levels in the liver or pancreas, and slightly attenuating the increase in fasting blood glucose levels and insulin resistance induced by PS-NPs exposure. This showed that exposure to PS-NPs aggravated type 2 diabetes and the underlying mechanism partly involved in the inhibition of AKT/GSK3β phosphorylation.
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JOURNAL OF ASIAN NATURAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH
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2022
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Wei-Wei Ye,Xiang-Ying Meng,Qian Zhao,Jian-Yang Chen,Cong Liu,Feng Chen,Yong Zhou,Yi Wang
Echinacoside (ECH) is the main compound of Cistanche deserticola, which possesses antioxidant, antitumor, antifatigue, and anti-inflammatory properties. The present study investigated the protective effects of echinacoside on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)-induced injury in T2DM injury db/db mice model and insulin-resistant LO2 cell model. The results demonstrated that ECH probably alleviated T2DM-induced injury by mediating the AKT pathway, which provided a new direction for the treatment of T2DM-induced injury.
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Molecular Catalysis
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2022
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Nan Li,Changping Jian,Yaping Song,Li Wang,Ata Ur Rehman,Yanghe Fu,Fumin Zhang,De-Li Chen,Weidong Zhu
Herein, we reported a facile and scalable approach for the synthesis of Fe-based MOF MIL-88A(Fe) via a simple liquid-phase route at atmosphere pressure, and its application as a heterogeneous catalyst for the efficient aerobic oxidation of cyclohexene to value-added 2-cyclohexene-1-ol. Over 130 g of spindle-shaped MIL-88A(Fe) nanocrystals with high crystallinity, monodispersed particle size, and large specific surface area were easily synthesized per batch according to our method. The resultant MIL-88A(Fe) exhibited a high catalytic activity (conversion: 81%) with 70% selectivity for 2-cyclohexene-1-ol in the aerobic oxidation of cyclohexene with O 2 as the sole oxidant under mild reaction conditions (0.5 MPa of O 2 , 353 K for 8 h), outperforming the analogues reported in the literatures. The combined experimental and theoretical approach support the reaction mechanism of the oxidation of cyclohexene via both the free radical reaction pathway and Fe-mediated reaction pathway, resulting in the selective formation of 2-cyclohexene-1-ol.
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CRYSTENGCOMM
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2022
·Vol. 25
·期 3
·432-443
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IF 3.756
Yuping Li,Yang Tao,Yunping Zhoujin,Fang Zhao,Peng-Yu Liang,Sean Parkin,Tonglei Li,Pan-Pan Zhou,Sihui Long
Substituent size and isomerization play an important role in the polymorphism of 2-(naphthalen-n-ylamino)-benzoic acids (n = 1, 2; 2-NBAs) as each of the two previously investigated 2-NBAs was found to be polymorphic, while their parent compound fenamic acid (FA) has only one form discovered. 2-(Naphthalen-1-ylamino)-nicotinic acid (1) and 2-(naphthalen-2-ylamino)-nicotinic acid (2) (2-NNA) are isosteric compounds of 2-NBAs, and 2-(2,3-dimethyl-phenylamino)-nicotinic acid (3) and 2-(3,4-dimethyl-phenylamino)-nicotinic acid (4) are 2-NNA analogues with similar substitution patterns. All four compounds are clonixin analogues. The polymorphism of these four compounds was investigated. One solvent-free form (1-A) and one hydrate (1-H) were discovered for 1, three forms (2-I, 2-II, and 2-III) were obtained for 2, and one form was found for 3 and 4. The four systems were characterized by single-crystal XRD (SCXRD) and powder XRD (PXRD), and structural properties were compared among the crystals of the four compounds, their isosteres, and other related analogues. The phase behavior of the four systems was studied with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was used to investigate the dehydration of 1-H. Computational studies such as stable conformer search, π–π interaction energy calculation, and non-covalent interaction (NCI) analysis were performed to shed light on the rise of polymorphism, and the relative contribution of various intermolecular interactions to the overall stability of the crystals. The study confirmed the effect of substituent size, thus the consequent π–π interactions, on the hydrate formation of compound 1 and polymorphism of compound 2.
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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
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2023
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IF 3
Weidong Wang,Lijuan Mei,Huilan Yue,Yanduo Tao,Zenggen Liu
Saussurea obvallata ( S. obvallata ) is widely used in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with high medicinal and edible values of reducing inflammation. But, the individual components and mechanisms of action still ill-defined. In this work, an integrated method using affinity ultrafiltration combined with preparative liquid chromatography was developed to identify and separate cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors from S. obvallata . The sample was pretreated using on-line medium pressure liquid chromatography to yield the active fraction. Then, the potential COX-2 ligands were screened out using affinity ultrafiltration from the targeted fraction and the identified compounds were isolated via preparative liquid chromatography. As a result, four main compounds, coniferin ( 1 ), syringin ( 2 ), roseoside ( 3 ) and grasshopper ketone ( 4 ) were targeted isolated with IC 50 values of 12.34 ± 1.81, 4.04 ± 0.43, 13.91 ± 2.46 and 7.97 ± 1.21 µM, respectively. Results of this work demonstrated that the developed strategy was effective for the targeted separation of COX-2 inhibitors from natural product extracts.
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RESEARCH ON CHEMICAL INTERMEDIATES
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2022
·Vol. 49
·期 1
·241-252
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IF 3.134
Xing Qianqian,Zhao Jiancheng,Zhu Yulei,Hou Xianglin,Wang Yingxiong
5-Chloro-2-pentanone (5C2P) and its derivatives are widely utilized in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industry. A new catalytic approach was proposed to convert 3-acetyl-1-propanol to 5C2P using bis(trichloromethyl)carbonate (triphosgene, BTC) as the efficient chlorine source. Various qualitative and quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance techniques ( 1 H, 13 C NMR), especially 1D selective gradient total correlation spectroscopy (Sel-TOCSY) and 2D heteronuclear single quantum correlation ( 1 H- 13 C HSQC) were used in the process. The reaction conditions, such as temperature, time, mole ratio, solvent as well as initiator were optimized. Experiment results showed that the yield of 5C2P reached a maximum of 97.93% in 1,2-dichloroethane at 80 °C after 2 h under the initiation of N,N-dimethylacetamide, and the optimal molar ratio of 3-acetyl-1-propanol to BTC was 1:0.4. The reaction mechanism was proposed and confirmed accordingly. Interestingly, an intermediate product of 1-(dimethylamino)ethyl carbonochloridate was observed, and its chemical structure was characterized by both Sel-TOCSY and 1 H- 13 C HSQC. This study enriched the catalytic reaction ways for the preparation of 5C2P.
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MOLECULES
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2023
·Vol. 28
·期 4
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IF 4.6
Guozhu Ren,Danyang Zhang,Hao Wang,Xiaofang Li,Ruiping Deng,Shihong Zhou,Long Tian,Liang Zhou
The luminescent performances of near-infrared (NIR) lanthanide (Ln) complexes were restricted greatly by vibration quenching of X-H (X = C, N, O) oscillators, which are usually contained in ligands and solvents. Encapsulating Ln3+into a cavity of coordination atoms is a feasible method of alleviating this quenching effect. In this work, a novel ytterbium complex [Yb(DPPDA)2](DIPEA) coordinated with 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylic acid (DPPDA) was synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, ESI-MS and elemental analysis. Under the excitation of 335 nm light, [Yb(DPPDA)2](DIPEA) showed two emission peaks at 975 and 1011 nm, respectively, which were assigned to the characteristic2F5/2→2F7/2transition of Yb3+. Meanwhile, this ytterbium complex exhibited a plausible absolute quantum yield of 0.46% and a luminescent lifetime of 105 μs in CD3OD solution. In particular, its intrinsic quantum yield was calculated to be 12.5%, and this considerably high value was attributed to the near-zero solvent molecules bound to Yb3+and the absence of X-H oscillators in the first coordination sphere. Based on experimental results, we further proposed that the sensitized luminescence of [Yb(DPPDA)2](DIPEA) occurred via an internal redox mechanism instead of an energy transfer process.Keywords:ytterbium complex;near-infrared luminescence;absolute quantum yield;luminescent lifetime;intrinsic quantum yield;internal redox mechanism
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SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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Xiaoming Xu,Guoyan Hua,Yuxuan Chen,Yanhong Zhang,Zepeng Zhang,Weiben Yang,Fuqiang Liu,Aimin Li
Traditional polyamide nanofiltration membranes suffer from permeability-selectivity trade-off limitation and unsatisfactory rejection for divalent cations. Herein, a novel dually charged membrane was constructed by incorporating positively charged UiO-66-(NH 2 ) 2 into the negatively charged polyamide layer. Thanks to the customizable nanochannels of metal-organic frameworks, the amino-rich nanochannels of UiO-66-(NH 2 ) 2 could be fabricated through a ligand replacement strategy. UiO-66-(NH 2 ) 2 played a crucial role in the enhanced rejection of divalent cations, meanwhile negatively charged polyamide surface guaranteed the efficient Na 2 SO 4 rejection. Satisfactory rejections of CaCl 2 (96.07 %) and Na 2 SO 4 (90.62 %) were achieved simultaneously by optimal TFN-D5. Meanwhile, TFN-D5 owned the greatly-improved water permeance of 19.44 LMH/bar, which was about 1.5 times better than that of the TFC-control. Calculations based on density functional theory further confirmed UiO-66-(NH 2 ) 2 rejected Ca 2+ efficiently since the migration energy barrier across UiO-66-(NH 2 ) 2 was an order of magnitude higher than that of UiO-66-NH 2 and UiO-66. Moreover, the desirable rejections were beyond 94 % towards many divalent cation salts including MgCl 2 , NiCl 2 , PbCl 2 , MnCl 2 , CdCl 2 and ZnCl 2 . Thus, this work provided an efficient way to realize the synergistic removal of both divalent cations and anions.
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