Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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2022
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IF 4.177
Minling Li,Dechan Lu,Ruiyun You,Huiying Shen,Lanjin Zhu,Qingqiang Lin,Yudong Lu
Tyrosinase (TYR) is a key rate-limiting enzyme of melanin and a biomarker for melanoma diagnosis. Therefore, detection of TYR in biological samples is essential for the clinical diagnosis of melanoma. A novel portable surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor is proposed to detect TYR activity. It is based on dopamine (DA)-functionalized Au nanorod (Au NR) arrays as the capture substrate and 4-mercaptophenylboronic acid (4-MPBA)-modified silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) as the SERS probe. In this case, the Au NR arrays are modified with 3,3′-dithiodipropionic acid di(N-succinimide ester) (DSP) to capture DA. In the presence of TYR, DA is oxidized to dopaquinone (DQ), which resulted in a decrease in the concentration of SERS probes further adsorbed onto the arrays. The activity of TYR is detected by changes in the intensity of the phenylboronic acid signal. Furthermore, this detection system has a wide linear detection range and high sensitivity that can effortlessly evaluate a linear range of 0.0001–100 U/mL of TYR activity. More significantly, the presented SERS sensor can perform well on both the determination of TYR activity in serum and the assessment of TYR inhibitors, which offers new opportunities for diagnosis of melanoma and other TYR-related diseases under complex biological conditions.
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MATERIALS & DESIGN
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2022
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IF 9.417
Ma JZ,Ding PT,Zhao XY,Chen YF,Ma MR,H Liu,Xie HC,Yang TZ,Liu ZN,Yang XG
A large amount of lactate accumulated in the tumor tissues plays an important role in tumor angiogenesis, recurrence, metastasis, drug resistance and immunosuppression. However, there is a lack of a simple and efficient lactate depletion strategy. Herein, a red blood cell membrane (mRBC)-camouflaged polydopamine (PDA)-coated dendritic mesoporous silicon nanoparticle (DMSN) was constructed for the delivery of lactate oxidase (LOX) to achieve coordinated catalytic consumption of intracellular and extracellular lactate and modulation of immunotherapy (denoted as DPLM). Due to the encapsulation of the mRBC, the DPLM could achieve long circulation in the blood and gradually accumulate into the tumor tissues within 8 h. The PDA which possessed catalase-like nature could catalyze the decomposition reaction of H 2 O 2 in hypoxic tumor tissue, therefore providing oxygen for LOX to oxidize extracellular lactate. Meanwhile, with the help of the photothermal conversion ability of PDA, the laser-trigged low-temperature photothermal effect on DPLM could cause the endosomal escape, which facilitated the delivery of LOX into cytoplasm to deplete intracellular lactate. In addition, due to the photothermal effect, tumor cells could release immune signals that promoted immune cells infiltration into tumor tissues. This study provides an innovative LOX delivery system to regulate tumor acid environment and relieve immunosuppression.
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PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
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2022
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IF 4.966
Bin Liu,Danyang Fu,Hang Ning,Ming Tang,Hui Chen
Bark beetles rely on detoxifying enzymes to resist the defensive terpenoids of the host tree. Insect cytochrome P450 (CYPs) plays a key role in the detoxification of pesticides and plant allelochemicals . CYP6 family is unique to Insecta, and its biochemical function is basically related to the metabolism of exogenous substances. In this study, we sequenced and characterized the full-length cDNAs of two CYP6 genes from Chinese white pine beetle, Dendroctonus armandi . Spatiotemporal expression profiling revealed that the expression of CYP6CR2 and CYP6DE5 was higher in larval and adult stages of D. armandi than that in other developmental stages, and that two genes predominantly expressed in brain , midgut, fat body, Malpighian tubules or hemolymph. The expression of CYP6CR2 and CYP6DE5 was significantly induced after feeding on the phloem of Pinus armandii and exposure to six stimuli [(±)- α -pinene, (−)- α -pinene, (−)- β -pinene, (+)-3-carene, (±)-limonene and turpentine]. Importantly, silencing CYP6CR2 and CYP6DE5 separately could increase the sensitivity, led to a significant reduction of the activity of P450, resulting a significant increase in adult mortality after treatment with terpenoids. The comprehensive results of this study showed that in the process of host selection and colonization, the functions of CYPs were mainly to hydrolyze the chemical defense of the host and degrade odor molecules. These findings may help to develop new treatments to control this important pest.
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Analytical Methods
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2022
·Vol. 14
·期 37
·3632-3637
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IF 3.532
Zhi-Ang Liu,Ya-Nan Zuo,Yinghui Xia,Jing Sun,Shuyun Zhu
An innovative strategy with target-triggered cascade fluorescence recovery of a dual-nanoquencher system was developed to detect ascorbic acid (AA). Herein, manganese dioxide (MnO2) nanosheets and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were used as nanoquenchers simultaneously. Owing to their synergistic effects, the fluorescence of 2,3-diaminophenazine (DAP) was decreased efficiently, thus minimizing the background fluorescence. The introduction of AA triggered the decomposition of MnO2 into Mn2+, which induced the aggregation of AuNPs. Both the decomposed MnO2 and aggregated AuNPs possess weak quenching abilities towards DAP. Such a cascade amplification strategy enhanced the detection sensitivity for AA with a LOD as low as 6.7 nM, which was two orders of magnitude lower than that of MnO2-based fluorescence assay. Furthermore, this amplification strategy was successfully applied to detect AA in food samples.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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IF 7.392
Chenghao Zhang,Chun Li,Zongjing He,Dejun Gao,Junlei Qi,Jian Cao
Multi-level hierarchical surface roughness is the key to natural superhydrophobic materials. In this work, rough surfaces of a novel superhydrophobic material are achieved by the reactive wetting technique. The molten AgCuTi alloy is applied to infiltrate into the porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane, and wetting of molten AgCuTi is promoted by the reaction layer formed at the interface between AAO and AgCuTi. The AgCuTi infiltrates the AAO nanopores and forms the first-level surface roughness based on reactive wetting. To release the nanostructures embedded in the AAO pores, hydrothermal etching with NaOH aqueous solution was used to remove AAO. Meanwhile, TiO 2 nanostructures are synthesized under hydrothermal conditions, resulting in the second-level surface roughness. After modification, the surface is found to exhibit excellent superhydrophobic properties, including a high water contact angle (WCA) and low roll-off angle (RA). The superhydrophobic surface also shows self-cleaning, mechanical durability and long-term stability. The as-prepared surface exhibits excellent repellence for water solutions with different pH values. This method could be applied to fabricate superhydrophobic surfaces on different kinds of materials, showing broad application prospects.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 38
·7744-7759
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IF 7.571
Ke Yang,Luo Hai,Zefeng Wang,Huan Li,Wenhua Yi,Yuze Luo,Junqin Li,Le Deng,Dinggeng He
Multimodal synergistic bactericidal agents display great potential for fighting biofilm infections. However, the rational design of biofilm microenvironment (BME)-activatable therapeutic agents with excellent specificities, effective eradications and minimal side effects remains a great challenge. Herein, we show a BME-responsive one-for-all bactericidal nanoplatform consisting of Fe3+-doped polydopamine (Fe/PDA)-capped ZnO nanoparticles with a successive assembly of methylene blue (MB) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG). In an acidic BME (pH 5.5), the constructed nanoagent (ZnPMp) can realize the co-delivery of dual metal ions (Zn2+ and Fe3+) and MB, and the latter shows an activated photodynamic antibacterial activity when irradiated with 635 nm laser. Zn2+ produced from acid-sensitive dissolution of ZnO is an effective chemical antibacterial agent. Additionally, the released Fe3+ is reduced to Fe2+ by glutathione (GSH) overexpressed in the BME to generate Fe2+/Fe3+ redox couples, which exhibit Fenton catalytic activity to convert endogenous H2O2 to hydroxyl radicals (˙OH) for chemodynamic sterilization and GSH depletion ability to improve ˙OH-induced oxidative damage. Interestingly, the hyperthermia caused by the Fe/PDA layer assisted with 808 nm laser can damage directly bacterial cells, accelerate the release of Zn2+, Fe3+and MB, and promote the catalytic activity of Fe2+/Fe3+ redox couples for photothermal-augmented multimodal antibiofilm therapy. With the help of dual lasers, ZnPMp displays the broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, inhibits effectively the formation of biofilms, and more importantly eliminates bacteria deep in mature biofilms. In addition, ZnPMp can be used to treat biofilm-related infections in vivo with excellent therapeutic performance and minimal toxicity. Overall, the developed ZnPMp may serve as a potential nano-antibacterial agent for intensive anti-infective therapy.
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JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
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2022
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IF 11.467
Siqi Ma,Zhaoqing Cong,Jiaxing Wei,Weiya Chen,Di Ge,Feifei Yang,Yonghong Liao
Very little is currently known about how inhaled nanomedicine for lung cancer treatment overcomes biological barriers hampering the tumor availability of drug and nanoparticles . Here, we developed a size-transformable nanocarrier (~ 119 nm) in which small-size nanoparticles (~ 28 nm) were loaded in the large nanocarrier after the addition of modified hyaluronan and could be released upon size-transformation at tumor tissue. Subsequently, the pulmonary and tumor pharmacokinetics of the two nanocarriers containing 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN38) and a covalently linked fluorescent sonosensitizer were comparatively investigated after intratracheal instillation to mice bearing orthotopic Lewis lung carcinoma tumors. The results showed that both instilled nanoparticles seemed to transport drug to tumor by direct access and transcytosis of nanoparticles, and diffusion of the released drug with the latter accounting for a great proportion of the drug tumor bioavailability. Relative to the small-size nanocarrier, the size-transformable counterpart appeared to restrict the mucociliary and absorption clearances from the lung and the clearance from the tumor interstitium to circulation, leading to increases in lung and tumor bioavailability of SN38 by 58.5% and 199%, respectively. In addition, the size-transformable nanoformulation conferred deep tumor penetration and sustained levels of both sonosensitizer and SN38 within tumors and simultaneously exerted sonodynamic- and chemo-therapies. Overall, the pulmonary delivery of size-transformable nanocarrier could co-deliver sonosensitizer and drug to deep tumor sites with enhanced tumor accumulation to realize combination therapy in lung cancer.
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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
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2022
·Vol. 46
·期 36
·17223-17234
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IF 3.925
Dajie Zhang,Jiabao Sun,Qiang Li,Haocheng Song,Dongsheng Xia
Biochar emerged as a promising material due to its high efficiency and tunable physicochemical properties. In order to improve the economic applicability of biochar catalysts, we attempted to apply formed Cu-doped deactivated magnetic loofah biochar (Cu-Fe-LBC) as a peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activator to remove tetracycline (TC). The catalyst exhibited high activation of PMS and high stability with the TC removal of 97.6%. The chemical composition and groups on the catalyst surface confirmed the presence of copper ions on the biochar by complexation with COO–. Analysis of quenching experiments and electron paramagnetic resonance indicated the significance of HO˙ and 1O2 in TC degradation. The catalytic system had high catalytic efficiency with a wide pH range and coexisting anions. The possible degradation mechanism was proposed. Moreover, the research provides an insight into the PMS activation by reusing waste biochar catalysts.
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
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2022
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IF 5.999
Shuwen Fu,Shilin Ma,Xinxuan Peng,Han Qiao,Wenli Zang,Jing Ye,Wenfeng Zang,Mohan Li,Kexin Shi,Xuanjiayi Ye,Wei Sun,Yinglei Zhai
Self-assembling prodrug nanotherapeutics have emerged as a promising nanoplatform for anticancer drug delivery. The specific and efficient activation of prodrug nanotherapeutics inside tumor cells is vital for the antitumor efficacy and security. Herein, a triple-activable prodrug polymer (TAP) is synthesized by conjugating polyethylene glycol-poly-(caprolactone)-paclitaxel (PTX) polymer with two tumor-responsive bonds, disulfide and acetal . TAP could self-assemble into nanotherapeutics (TAP NTs) free of surfactant with a high drug loading (32.6%). In blood circulation , TAP NTs could remain intact to efficiently accumulate in tumor sites. Thereafter, tumor cells would internalize TAP NTs through multiple endocytosis pathways. Inside tumor cells, TAP NTs could be activated to release PTX and induce tumor cell apoptosis in triple pathways: (i) lysosomal acidity rapid activation; (ii) ROS-acidity tandem activation and (iii) GSH-acidity tandem activation. Compared with Taxol and non-activable control, TAP NTs significantly potentiate the antitumor efficacy and security of PTX against solid tumors including breast cancer and colon cancer.
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PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
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2022
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Jiang Zhu,Jing Feng,Kai Tian,Chong Li,Mei Li,Xinghui QIU
The house fly ( Musca domestica L.) (Diptera: Muscidae) is a global vector that can transmit >250 human and animal diseases. The control of house flies has heavily relied on the application of various chemical insecticides . The carbamate insecticide propoxur has been widely used for the control of house flies, and resistance to propoxur has been documented in many house fly populations worldwide. Previous studies have identified several propoxur resistance-conferring mutations in the target protein acetylcholinesterase ; however, the molecular basis for metabolic resistance to propoxur remains unknown. In this study, we investigated the involvement of CYP6G4, a cytochrome P450 overexpressed in many insecticide resistant populations of Musca domestica , in propoxur metabolism and resistance by using combined approaches of recombinant protein-based insecticide metabolism and the Drosophila GAL4/UAS transgenic system. The recombinant CYP6G4 and its redox partners (NADPH-dependent cytochrome P450 reductase and cytochrome b 5) were functionally expressed in Escherichia coli . Metabolism experiments showed that CYP6G4 was able to transform propoxur with a turnover rate of around 0.79 min −1 . Six metabolites were putatively identified, suggesting that CYP6G4 could metabolize propoxur via hydroxylation , O-depropylation and N -demethylation. Moreover, bioassay results showed that ectopic overexpression of CYP6G4 in fruit flies significantly increased their tolerance to propoxur. Our in vivo and in vitro data convincingly demonstrate that CYP6G4 contributes to propoxur metabolism and resistance.
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Advanced Healthcare Materials
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2022
·Vol. 11
·期 20
·2200938
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IF 11.092
Lei Zhou,Haifeng Liang,Yuxiang Ge,Wang Ding,Qing Chen,Taiwei Zhang,Lan Xiao,Yulin Li,Jian Dong,Xiaowen He,Fengfeng Xue,Libo Jiang
Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been widely applied to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a significant proportion of patients, especially those with spinal metastasis (NSCLC-SM), are insensitive to anti-programmed death 1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) ICIs. A drug delivery nano-controller of PD-L1 that targets NSCLC-SM can solve this problem, however, none have been developed to date. In this study, it is shown that integrin β 3 ( β 3-int) is strongly upregulated in NSCLC-SM. Its inhibitor RGDyK promotes PD-L1 ubiquitination, indicating the potential application of RGDyK as a new PD-L1 inhibitor in nano-controller and a targeting peptide for NSCLC-SM treatment. According to the synergistic effect of photodynamic therapy and ICIs on T-cell activation through the release of tumor antigens, RGDyK-modified and zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP)-loaded mesoporous silicon nanoparticles (ZnPP@MSN-RGDyK) are fabricated. The ZnPP@MSN-RGDyK nanoparticles precisely target β 3-int to inhibit PD-L1, exhibiting high photodynamic therapy efficiency, and excellent immunotherapeutic effects in an NSCLC-SM mouse model. Collectively, the findings indicate that ZnPP@MSN-RGDyK is a promising immunotherapeutic agent for treating NSCLC-SM.
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DYES AND PIGMENTS
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2022
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IF 5.122
Yingying Xiang,Yujiao Tu,Lei Jiang,Lin Yuan,Ze Liu,Qiang Xie,Xuequan Xiong,Fei Song
As one of the most widely used azo synthetic dyes, long-term consumption of excessive amaranthcan cause a threat to health. It is very urgent to establish high selective and sensitive method for amaranth detection. Orange fluorescent carbon dots utilizing l -methionine and o-phenylenediamine as raw materials, namely S,N-CDs, were prepared via one-step hydrothermal method . Dialysis, thin layer chromatography and chromatographic column were employed for further purification. The purified dual-mode nanoprobe based on fluorescent and UV absorption was successfully established. For fluorescent, excellent linear ranges of 5–70 μM and 110–195 μM were obtained, and low detection limit was 345.22 nM. For UV absorption, excellent linear ranges of 0–155 μM with low detection limit 12.70 nM. It revealed that inner filter effect and static quenching dominated in amaranth quenching the fluorescent of S,N-CDs. Furthermore, the dual-mode nanoprobe could be efficiently applied to determine amaranth in fruit juice, carbonated drink, and strawberry jam samples. It provided a new insight on the purification of carbon dots and detection of amaranth by dual-mode nanoprobe.
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