Nature Communications
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2021
·Vol. 12
·期 1
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He Hongping,Wu Xiao,Xian Haiyang,Zhu Jianxi,Yang Yiping,Lv Ying,Li Yiliang,Konhauser Kurt O.
The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis is a pivotal event in Earth’s history because the O 2 released fundamentally changed the planet’s redox state and facilitated the emergence of multicellular life. An intriguing hypothesis proposes that hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) once acted as the electron donor prior to the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis, but its abundance during the Archean would have been limited. Here, we report a previously unrecognized abiotic pathway for Archean H 2 O 2 production that involves the abrasion of quartz surfaces and the subsequent generation of surface-bound radicals that can efficiently oxidize H 2 O to H 2 O 2 and O 2 . We propose that in turbulent subaqueous environments, such as rivers, estuaries and deltas, this process could have provided a sufficient H 2 O 2 source that led to the generation of biogenic O 2 , creating an evolutionary impetus for the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis.
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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
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2021
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Tianyu Li,Bo Liang,Zhichao Ye,Lei Zhang,Shiyi Xu,Tingting Tu,Yiming Zhang,Yu Cai,Bin Zhang,Lu Fang,Xiyu Mao,Shanshan Zhang,Guan Wu,Qifu Yang,Congcong Zhou,Xiujun Cai,Xuesong Ye
Simultaneous monitoring of electrophysiological and biochemical signals is of great importance in healthcare and fitness management, while the fabrication of highly integrated and flexible devices is crucial to these applications. Herein, we devised a multifunctional and flexible hydrogel-paper patch (HPP) that was capable of simultaneously real-time monitoring of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and biochemical signal (glucose content) in sweat during exercise. The self-assembly of the highly porous PEDOT:PSS hydrogel on paper fiber provided the HPP with good conductivity and hydrophilic wettability for efficient electron transmission and substance diffusion, thereby enabling it to serve as a low-impedance ECG electrode and a highly sensitive glucose sensor . Additionally, the spontaneous capillary flow effect allows the paper patch to be used as microfluidic channels for the collect and analysis of sweat. Moreover, the HPP is integrated with a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) and works as a multifunctional wearable device mounted on the chest for real-time monitoring of electrophysiological and biochemical signals during exercise.
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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2021
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Bai Shuju,Wang Wenbo,Zhang Zhiwei,Li Mengyao,Chen Zehan,Wang Jiuqiao,Zhao Yanlin,An Lu,Wang Yuxiang,Xing Shu,Fu Xueqi,Ma Junfeng
Amyloid-β, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, forms toxic intracellular oligomers and extracellular senile plaques resulting in neuronal toxicity. Ethanol is widely consumed worldwide. Moderate ethanol consumption has numerous benefits in humans. We found that ethanol could significantly extend the lifespan of Caenorhabiditis elegans in a previous study. Based on that study, we tested the effect of ethanol on Alzheimer’s disease transgenic Caenorhabiditis elegans strain CL4176, which expresses amyloid-β1-42 peptide in body wall muscle cells. Ethanol delayed paralysis and reduced amyloid-β oligomers in Caenorhabiditis elegans worms of the CL4176 strain. Moreover, ethanol could induce the nuclear translocation of DAF-16 in the nematodes. However, in worms that were fed daf-16 RNAi bacteria, ethanol no longer delayed the paralysis. The qPCR assays showed that ethanol increases the expression of daf-16, hsf-1 and their common target genes- small heat shock protein genes. In addition, we also found that ethanol could increase lysosome mass in the CL4176 worms. In summary, our study indicated that ethanol attenuated amyloid-β toxicity in the Alzheimer’s disease model of Caenorhabiditis elegans via increasing the level of lysosomes to promote amyloid-β degradation and upregulating the levels of small heat shock protein genes to reduce amyloid-β aggregation.
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
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2021
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Meng Tong,Xiaoyan Wu,Shuya Zhang,Di Hua,Shukun Li,Xiangyu Yu,Jing Wang,Zhenhai Zhang
The oral bioavailability and efficacy of baicalein is dramatically limited by its low solubility and effect of efflux. In our study, we chose PVP-VA64 as a carrier and TPGS as a plasticizer and efflux inhibitor to prepare a solid dispersion of baicalein using hot-melt extrusion technology to improve its solubility and bioavailability. The hot-melt process and formulation were optimized, and a BAC-PVP VA64-TPGS solid dispersion (BPT-SD) was prepared. BAC exists in an amorphous or molecular state in BPT-SD. BPT-SD comprised irregular lumps and small particles without BAC or carrier characteristics. The dissolution efficiency of BPT-SD improved under sink conditions. FTIR showed a strong hydrogen bond between BAC and PVP-VA64 in BPT-SD. BPT-SD maintained good physical stability for 6 months. The apparent permeability coefficient of BAC in the Caco-2 cell model confirmed that BPT-SD had higher gastrointestinal membrane permeability. A rat pharmacokinetic study showed that BPT-SD had higher C max and AUC 0- 24h, shorter T max , and 2.88-fold higher bioavailability than BAC. A behavioral experiment in chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) mice confirmed the antidepressant efficacy of BAC. BPT-SD reversed depression-like behavior in CUMS mice and improved BAC bioavailability. BAC preparation into a solid dispersion significantly enhanced dissolution performance and bioavailability.
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Microbiology Spectrum
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2021
·Vol. 9
·期 3
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Alia Rizvi Syeda Kazim,Yuting Jiang,Shengnan Li,Xiaoxiao He
α-Glucan is a major cell wall component and a virulence and adhesion factor for fungal cells. However, the biosynthetic pathway of α-glucan was still unclear. α-Glucan was shown to be composed mainly of 1,3-glycosidically linked glucose, with trace amounts of 1,4-glycosidically linked glucose. Besides the α-glucan synthetases, amylase-like proteins were also important for α-glucan synthesis. In our previous work, we showed that Aspergillus nidulans AmyG was an intracellular protein and was crucial for the proper formation of α-glucan. In the present study, we expressed and purified AmyG in an Escherichia coli system. Enzymatic characterization found that AmyG mainly functioned as an α-amylase that degraded starch into maltose. AmyG also showed weak glucanotransferase activity. Most intriguingly, supplementation with maltose in shaken liquid medium could restore the α-glucan content and the phenotypic defect of a ΔamyG strain. These data suggested that AmyG functions mainly as an intracellular α-amylase to provide maltose during α-glucan synthesis in A. nidulans.IMPORTANCE Short α-1,4-glucan was suggested as the primer structure for α-glucan synthesis. However, the exact structure and its source remain elusive. AmyG was essential to promote α-glucan synthesis and had a major impact on the structure of α-glucan in the cell wall. Data presented here revealed that AmyG belongs to the GH13_5 family and showed strong amylase function, digesting starch into maltose. Supplementation with maltose efficiently rescued the phenotypic defect and α-glucan deficiency in an ΔamyG strain but not in an ΔagsB strain. These results provide the first piece of evidence for the primer structure of α-glucan in fungal cells, although it might be specific to A. nidulans.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C
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2021
·Vol. 9
·期 47
·17042-17049
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Chunhui Luo,Xinyue Deng,Shuai Xie
Designing skin-comparable conductive hydrogels has attracted tremendous interest, while it remains challenging to simultaneously achieve super-extensibility and ultra-sensitivity. Herein, a novel hydrogel was successfully fabricated to tackle this problem by using acrylamide (AM), flowerlike micelles (polyethylene glycol dilaurate) and sodium chloride (NaCl) as the monomer, cross-linker and conductive filler, respectively. The synergy of micelle deformation under external loads and chain entanglement between polyethylene glycol and polyacrylamide chains endowed the gel with an ultra-stretchable property (elongation at break of 155 mm mm−1). Meanwhile, the dipole–dipole interactions between ions and polymeric chains led to an ultra-sensitive capacity (gauge factor = 54.5, tensile strain > 20 mm mm−1), superior to those of most hydrogel-based sensors. Therefore, the obtained sensor could precisely monitor various human motions, including finger bending at different angles, speaking, walking and running. Additionally, the presence of ions (Na+ and Cl−) endowed the gel with excellent anti-freezing properties (128 mm mm−1 tensile strain at −20 °C). This work sheds light on the fabrication of high-performance sensors and will broaden their applications.
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COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2021
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Xing-Yu Li,Pan-Pan Zhao,Lin-Xuan Han,Cong Deng
Flexible electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials with low secondary electromagnetic radiation are urgently required for next-generation precise electronic devices and wearable electronics . However, realizing ultra-low microwave reflectivity and sustaining strong absorption feature in a wide frequency range remains a great challenge. Here, natural rubber-based flexible hierarchical composites were fabricated by combination of honeycomb-like 3D networks with selectively distributed ferro/ferric oxide modified graphene (F@rLG) magnetic particles and densely interconnected conductive networks (RL) with fulfilled multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) via latex compounding together with co-vulcanization method. The resulting hierarchical bilayer elastomer has the EMI shielding coefficient of 34.4 dB at RL thickness of 0.18 mm, and achieves minimum electromagnetic wave reflection coefficient of 0.1. Moreover, in almost entire Ku band , over 80% incident electromagnetic waves can be absorbed, indicating its excellent capability in minimizing the secondary electromagnetic pollution . And this double-layered flexible material exhibits excellent stability in EMI shielding performance after the deformation cycles of 500 times. In addition, both the influence of precisely manipulated distribution of nanoparticles on the EMI property and the absorption-dominated approach via coupled layers were investigated in depth. This work paves a way for designing flexible EMI shielding materials with low secondary electromagnetic contamination.
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2021
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Yingfeng Qin,Gaojie Ye,Hao Liang,Ming Li,Jingjin Zhao
It is highly desirable to develop a simple, efficient and sensitive strategy for organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) in both environment pollution and human health. Herein, a novel amplified fluorescence polarization (FP) biosensor was established for highly sensitive detection of OPs using MnO 2 nanosheets as the signal enhancer. In this system, OPs can suppress the activity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) efficiently, blocking the hydrolysis reaction of acetylthiocholine (ATCh) to generate thiocholine (TCh) by AChE. TCh can lead the decomposition of MnO 2 nanosheets to manganese ions. So, without the influence of TCh, MnO 2 nanosheets can maintain its original shape and form a stable complex with FAM-DNA, which greatly enhanced the FP signal. This method can tremendously improve the sensitivity of FP with a detection limit of 0.01 ng/mL for diazinon. In addition, it was also applicable to determine other four OPs and investigate the level of diazinon in real water samples. Consequently, the proposed approach provides a new promising platform for detection of OPs and is expected to be used in application of environmental monitoring.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2021
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Yanwen Liu,Lin Zhong,Shubo Zhang,Juan Wang,Zhihong Liu
Wearable electrochemical sensors have been extensively used for the non-invasive and quantitative on-body detection of biomarkers in sweat. However, the photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor, which is an evolutionary generation of the electrochemical method and holds higher sensitivity and the ability to unbiased analysis, is rarely applied to construct flexible wearable sweat devices. Herein, we demonstrated a flexible PEC patch comprised of an ultrasensitive PEC sensor and a hydrophilic poly-(dimethylsiloxane) sweat collector for unbiased and high-performance sweat glucose detection. The proposed PEC sensor offered excellent durability against mechanical deformations , low detection limit (22.2 pM), desirable selectivity, and high storage stability. Moreover, the feasibility and accuracy of this wearable glucose sensor patch were validated through human subjects studies, and the obtained sweat glucose test results closely matched with the commercial kit and correlated well with the blood glucose level. Taken together, we could confirm the considerable promise of the unbiased wearable PEC sensor for patient-friendly diabetic diagnosis.
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VACUUM
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2021
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Zhiruo Shen,Changhua Xu,Sumin Wang,Jian Chen,Siqin Jia,Qiguan Wang
Electrolysis of water is a promising method for production of the green-energy hydrogen, which is commonly assisted by high powerful catalyst. At present, developing low-cost and highly efficient electrocatalysts has attracted increasing attention. Herein, a novel composited catalyst of Zn x Ni 1-x S@Mo 2 C loaded on conductive carbon cloth (Zn x Ni 1-x S@Mo 2 C/CC) is successfully prepared by the hydrothermal method . Due to the abundant active sites of defect structures induced by the surface engineering, the prepared Zn x Ni 1-x S@Mo 2 C/CC shows outstanding electrocatalytic performances in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) of water splitting, with low overpotential of 230 mV and 150 mV at 10 mA cm −2 , respectively. The Zn x Ni 1-x S@Mo 2 C/CC as an OER/HER bifunctional catalyst for overall water splitting affords a stable voltage of 1.56 V @current density of 10 mA cm −2 . Moreover, the catalyst shows an outstanding stability after a series of electrochemical tests. This work expands the multi-field applications of carbon cloth-supported materials as efficient non-precious metal-based electrocatalysts , with great importance in sustainable energy-relative technologies.
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2021
·Vol. 188
·期 11
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Xie Jiaojiao,Mu Zhaode,Yan Bin,Wang Jie,Zhou Jing,Bai Lijuan
A label-free electrochemical aptasensor is reported for sensitive detection of the 6-kDa early secreted antigenic target (ESAT-6). For the first time, the bimetallic organic framework (b-MOF) of Zr-MOF-on-Ce-MOF was decorated with nitrogen-doped graphene (NG) and applied as the matrix for electroactive toluidine blue (Tb) to form the NG@Zr-MOF-on-Ce-MOF@Tb nanohybrid. The prepared nanohybrid with excellent hydrophilicity, dispersibility, and large specific surface exhibited significant electrochemical response. This nanohybrid could be directly used for anchoring ESAT-6 binding aptamers (EBA) through the interaction between the 5′-phosphate group (PO 4 3− ) of EBA and Zr 4+ of Zr-MOF. The signal response before and after incubating the ESAT-6 antigen has been evaluated by cyclic voltammetry at a scan rate of 100 mV s −1 from − 0.7 to 0.3 V (vs. SCE). Under optimal conditions, the proposed aptasensor displayed a wide linear range from 100 fg mL −1 to 10 ng mL −1 with a limit of detection (LOD) of 12 fg mL −1 . The developed method showed good reproducibility with a relative standard deviation (RSD) of 2.27%. The aptasensor showed favorable results in the analysis of the real samples. With these merits, the aptasensor has exceptional potential as a diagnostic tool for tuberculosis in clinical practice. Graphical abstract
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CHEMIE INGENIEUR TECHNIK
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2021
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Luxi Lyu,Houxiao Wu,Libo Li,Yanying Wei,Haihui Wang
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) show great potential for adsorption separation. However, MOFs' flexibility may influence their adsorption behaviors. Here, for the first time we prepare ZIF-8 powder dominated with stiffened ZIF-8_Cm phase under an external E-field. By comparison, we find that the flexibility of ZIF-8 has little influence in equilibrium-based separation behavior for C 3 H 6 /C 3 H 8 . However, the stiffened ZIF-8 formed in E-field presents an obviously decreased diffusion rate for C 3 H 8 , whose C 3 H 6 /C 3 H 8 kinetic-based separation factor is around 2.5 times higher than that of the traditional ZIF-8 powder.
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