TALANTA
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2021
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Qian Liu,Xinmin Yue,Yixian Li,Fang Wu,Meng Meng,Yongmei Yin,Rimo Xi
The superior supramolecular recognition ability of macrocyclic compounds will enhance the sensitivity and selectivity of electrochemical detection , which has a great application potential in electrochemical sensing. Herein, we developed a novel electrochemical aptasensor based on the specific host-guest interactions between cucurbit [7]uril and ferrocene (Fc) for capture, determination and release of exosomes. Macrocyclic compounds, cucurbit [7]uril is modified on the surface of the gold nanoparticles composed electrode by self-assembling. CD63 aptamer linked ferrocene is introduced into this platform to capture exosomes specifically by CD63 protein on the exosomes. The dual specificity of macrocyclic compounds and aptamers enables highly selective and sensitive electrochemical detection of exosomes. The limit of detection (LOD) was 482 particles μL -1 . In addition, the captured exosomes could be released on demand in a very mild manner through aminoferrocene (NH 2 -Fc) because of its higher affinity to cucurbit [7]uril. The proposed electrochemical aptasensor showed good performance in detecting exosomes even in plasma samples, thus demonstrating its great potential in early clinical diagnosis. Simultaneously, exosomes could be released undamaged by this protocol, exhibiting good applicability in comprehensive studies of exosomes. Moreover, this strategy can be applied to other target biomolecules by changing the recognition pairs.
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Frontiers in Pharmacology
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2020
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Yan Huijie,You Yun,Li Xinjian,Liu Lei,Guo Fengqian,Zhang Qiongling,Liu Dewen,Tong Yan,Ding Shilan,Wang Jinyu
Pharmacological Relevance: Paclitaxel (PTX) is currently the only botanical drug that can control the growth of cancer cells. Paclitaxel is widely used in the treatment of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, non-small cell lung cancer and other cancers.Aim: Folate receptor and integrin αvβ3 are highly expressed on the surface of human breast cancer cells MCF-7. Folic acid and arginine-glycine-aspartate (Arg-Gly-Asp, RGD) tripeptide sequence have a high affinity for folate receptor and integrin αvβ3, respectively. To enhance the effect on breast cancer, we constructed the folate acid and RGD peptide dual-targeted (MSNs-NH2-FA-RGD) drug-carrier based on mesoporous silica nanoparticles.Methods: The structure of mesoporous nanocarriers was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, nitrogen adsorption-desorption analysis, transmission electron microscopy, laser particle size analyzer, and thermogravimetric analysis. Paclitaxel was chosen as the model drug. The targeting-ability was verified by observing the uptake of mesoporous carriers loaded with rhodamine in MCF-7, MCF-10A, and HeLa cells using a fluorescence microscope. The cytotoxicity of the blank carrier MSNs-NH2-FA-RGD and the efficacy of the drug carrier PTX@MSNs-NH2-FA-RGD were assessed by cell experiments.Results: The characterization showed successful construction of a dual-targeted mesoporous silica nanocarrier. Obvious differences were detected in the fluorescence intensity of the three cell lines. The results of the pharmacological tests indicated that the blank nanoparticles do not cause any apparent toxicity on these cells. The IC50 of free PTX and PTX@MSNs-NH2-FA-RGD on MCF-7 cells line treated for 48 h were 35.25±2.57 ng·ml-1 and 22.21±3.4 ng·ml-1 respectively, which indicated that the inhibitory efficacy of PTX@MSNs-NH2-FA-RGD on MCF-7 was 1.6 times than that of free PTX.Conclusions: The dual-targeted nanocarrier MSNs-NH2-FA-RGD could target breast cancer cells, and sever as a potential candidate in future of drug development.
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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
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2022
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Fazhi Yu,Chenyu Zhu,Shuyin Ze,Haojie Wang,Xinyu Yang,Mingyao Liu,Qiong Xie,Weiqiang Lu,Yonghui Wang
In recent years, the adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR) has shown exciting progress in the development of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer. Herein, a 2-amino-7,9-dihydro-8H-purin-8-one compound (1) was identified as an A2AR antagonist hit through in-house library screening. Extensive structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies led to the discovery of 2-aminopteridin-7(8H)-one derivatives, which showed high potencies on A2AR in the cAMP assay. Compound 57 stood out with an IC50 value of 8.3 ± 0.4 nM against A2AR at the 5′-N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine (NECA) level of 40 nM. The antagonistic effect of 57 was sustained even at a higher NECA concentration of 1 μM, which mimicked the adenosine level in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Importantly, 57 enhanced T cell activation in both the IL-2 production assay and the cancer-cell-killing model, thus demonstrating its potential as a lead for developing novel A2AR antagonists in cancer immunotherapy.
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JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
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2021
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IF 7.446
Qingqing Liu,Zhikun Liu,Wuyang Hua,Shaohua Gou
Glutathione transferase (GST P1-1) is a potential target for anticancer drugs. In this work, a series of 6-(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-ylthio)hexanol (NBDHEX) derivatives as GST P1-1 inhibitors were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for their biological activity. Among the target compounds, 4n showed more selective inhibition toward GST P1-1 and GST M2-2, better water solubility, and more potent anticancer activities toward all the tested cancer cells (except for HOS) than its parent molecule. Detailed biological studies on the effect of 4n toward 143b cells revealed that 4n could arrest the cell cycle at the G2 phase and induced cell apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. Like NBDHEX, 4n displayed good pharmacokinetic characteristics. An in vivo study on 143b xenograft models demonstrated that 4n could significantly reduce tumor growth in a dose-dependent manner, showing stronger antitumor activity than NBDHEX. Thus, 4n deserves to be further investigated as a potential antitumor agent for cancer therapy.
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INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
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2023
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Maoxin Li,Wenyan Chen,Wenxing Chen,Shichang Chen
Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is glycolyzed to obtain bis(hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET), and repolymerization produces new PET material, making this a sustainable recycling process. However, most studies have reported common metal-based catalysts, which typically have harsh synthetic conditions and are prone to negative environmental impacts. In this study, 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene-based deep eutectic solvents (DBU-based DESs) effectively degraded PET to obtain BHET due to their high activity, low price, and accessible production properties. Under the optimized reaction conditions (DES 3.2 wt %, PET/ethylene glycol (EG) 1:3, 180 °C, 70 min), PET bottle flakes were completely degraded, and the yield of BHET achieved 83%. In addition, a possible degradation mechanism was postulated based on experimental data and calculations using density functional theory (DFT). The formation of hydrogen bonds between EG and DES and between PET and DES can promote glycolysis of PET, which in turn could facilitate the attack of hydroxyl oxygen in ethylene glycol (EG) on carbonyl carbon in PET.
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WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH
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2019
·Vol. 91
·期 7
·634-641
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IF 1.24
Xiao Zhang,Jing Zhang,Xue Huang,Qing Ping Wu,Chun Hui Yan,Jin Feng Lu
ZnO/Fe 3 O 4 @carbon spheres, which synthesized via a calcination process used Zn/Fe metal–organic frameworks (Zn/Fe–MOFs) as a precursor, were studied for the activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) for the degradation of Acid Orange 7 (AO7). The ZnO/Fe 3 O 4 @carbon spheres exhibited relatively high catalytic degradation properties for AO7 in an aqueous solution. The AO7 degradation reached 93.6% in 15 min under the conditions: 0.20 g/L ZnO/Fe 3 O 4 @carbon spheres, 1.25 mmol/L PMS, 0.03 mmol/L AO7, and initial pH of 4. Findings revealed that higher ZnO/Fe 3 O 4 @carbon spheres dose and PMS concentration, lower initial AO7 concentration, and acidic pH favored the AO7 degradation to a certain extent. The mechanisms for the activation of PMS by ZnO/Fe 3 O 4 @carbon spheres were proposed based on the results of radical identification tests and structure characterization. Both radical and nonradical pathways contribute to the AO7 degradation in this system. Practitioner points PMS + ZnO/Fe 3 O 4 @carbon spheres system can effectively catalyze PMS to decompose AO7. Both radical and nonradical pathways contribute to the degradation of AO7 in this system. The acidic condition was favorable for the activation of PMS.
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Analytical Methods
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2018
·Vol. 10
·期 40
·4894-4901
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IF 2.073
Ya-Ting Zhao,Li-Qing Yu,Xin Xia,Xin-Yu Yang,Wei Hu,Yun-Kai Lv
The adsorption mechanism and desorption properties of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF-7) were studied by on-line thermal desorption-gas chromatography (TD-GC), and a high efficiency method for determination of harmful indoor gas levels has been developed. The loading volume, loading flow rate and desorption temperature were optimized. Additionally, ZIF-7 has been proved to be an effective adsorbent and its adsorption performance is superior to that of commercial Tenax TA and activated carbon. It has been proved that ZIF-7 is an ideal adsorbent for VOCs. It was suggested that there are hydrophobic interactions, π–π stacking effects, “gate-opening” effects and molecular size effects between adsorbates and ZIF-7. Therefore, the developed ZIF-7-based TD-GC method offered an excellent performance with a detection limit of 1.22–2.38 ng (S/N = 3), a quantification limit of 4.05–7.94 ng (S/N = 10), and a good linearity (R2 = 0.99), and relative standard deviation values (RSD, n = 5) were found to be in the range of 1.69–7.97%, and tube-to-tube reproducibility for three parallel tubes was 8.01%.
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Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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2025
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Yang Gao,Yuyang Wang,Yanlin Jiang,Chaojie Bai,Zuoqun Zhang,Yawen Zhao,Congjie Gao,Lixin Xue
To improve interface compatibility between ZIF-7 particles (PTs) and polyamide (PA) and reverse osmosis (RO) performance of thin film nano-composite (TFN) membranes, ZIF-7-NH 2 (x) particles (PTs) with different levels of -NH 2 substitution were synthesized by reacting Zn(NO 3 ) 2 with mixed ligand under different preparation conditions. The impact of their residual surface functional groups (SFGs) on the formation of inter-phase covalent bonds (ICBs) in PA separating layers were investigated relating to the inter-phase compatibility and salt rejection performance of the formed composite RO membranes. Doping ZIF-7-NH 2 PTs with ICBs could avoid the expansion of PA in acidic condition. Surprisingly high chemical stability was observed for ZIF-7-NH 2 PTs wrapped in the PA separating layers in TN membranes in the pH range of 2–13. TN(50)-0.15 membranes with strong ICBs showed 3 times higher water flux of 76 L·m −2 ·h −1 under 5.5 MPa at a high salt rejection of 98.7 %.
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Scientific Reports
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2017
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Zeng Liang,Yan Jingna,Luo Liyong,Ma Mengjun,Zhu Huiqun
We were employing nanotechnology to improve the targeting ability of (−)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) towards MCF-7 cells, and two kinds of EGCG nanoparticles (FA-NPS-PEG and FA-PEG-NPS) were obtained, besides, their characteristics and effects on MCF-7 cells were studied. The results indicated that (i) both FA-NPS-PEG and FA-PEG-NPS have high stabilities; (ii) their particles sizes were 185.0 ± 13.5 nm and 142.7 ± 7.2 nm, respectively; (iii) their encapsulation efficiencies of EGCG were 90.36 ± 2.20% and 39.79 ± 7.54%, respectively. (iv) there was no cytotoxicity observed in EGCG, FA-NPS-PEG and FA-PEG-NPS toward MCF-7 cells over all concentrations (0~400 μg/mL) tested; (v) EGCG, FA-NPS-PEG and FA-PEG-NPS inhibited MCF-7 cells proliferation in dose-dependent manners, with the average IC 50 of 470.5 ± 33.0, 65.9 ± 0.4 and 66.6 ± 0.6 μg/mL; (vi) EGCG, FA-NPS-PEG and FA-PEG-NPS could modulated the expressions of several key regulatory proteins in PI3K-Akt pathway such as up-regulation of PTEN, p21 and Bax, and down-regulation of p -PDK1, p -AKT, CyclinD1 and Bcl-2, which gave an illustration about the mechanism by which EGCG nanoparticles inhibited MCF-7 cells proliferation. In this study, EGCG nanoparticles can significantly enhance the targeting ability and efficacy of EGCG, which is considered to an experimental foundation for further research on its activity, targeting ability and metabolism in vivo .
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GREEN CHEMISTRY
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2016
·Vol. 18
·期 9
·2871-2876
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IF 8.506
Xi Liu,Shuai Zhang,Qing-Wen Song,Xiao-Fang Liu,Ran Ma,Liang-Nian He
A bifuncational catalytic system consisting of CaBr2 and 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]-undec-7-ene (DBU) was developed for the efficient fixation of CO2 with epoxides to cyclic carbonates. Such a dual catalysis facilitates the reaction to proceed smoothly at atmospheric CO2 pressure, presumably due to the simultaneous activation of CO2 by DBU and epoxides by CaBr2. In addition, the activation role of CaBr2 was also studied using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. A plausible mechanism involving the DBU–CO2 adduct-assisted ring opening path and the bromide anion-promoted ring opening path is proposed, in combination with the activation of epoxides by the calcium cation. This process represents a simple, cost-effective and biocompatible route to obtain cyclic carbonates from CO2 under mild conditions, especially at atmospheric CO2 pressure.
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Scientific Reports
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2017
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IF 4.259
Du Jianwei,Zhang Peng,Zhao Xiao,Wang Youxiang
Cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]), a representative member of the host family cucurbit[n]uril, can host-guest interact with many guest molecules such as adamantane, viologen and naphthalene derivatives. This host-guest interaction provides an easy strategy in gene vector assembling. Furthermore, CB[7] can self-assemble on gold nanospheres (AuNSs). Herein, the combination of CB[7] and AuNSs provides both advantages of host-guest interaction and photo-thermal effect of AuNSs. In this study, polyethyleneimine (PEI) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) were separately interacted with CB[7] via host-guest interaction. Then by assembling on AuNSs, PEI and PEG were combined together to condense DNA into polyplexes as well as enhance circulation stability of the polyplexes. These gene vectors were found to have high cellular uptake efficiency and low cytotoxicity. Furthermore, the well distributed AuNSs in the polyplexes could transform light into heat under light exposure because of the photo-thermal effect. This was found to effectively promote the entry of gene into cytoplasm and highly enhanced gene transfection efficiency.
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JOURNAL OF DRUG TARGETING
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2016
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Lijing Zhang,Hua Cao,Jiaxin Zhang,Chengli Yang,Tingting Hu,Huili Li,Wu Yang,Gu He,Xiangrong Song,Aiping Tong,Gang Guo,Rui Li,Yu Jiang,Jiyan Liu,Lulu Cai,Yu Zheng
Specific delivery of drugs to bone tissue is very challenging due to the architecture and structure of bone tissue. A seven-repeat sequence of aspartate, a representative bone-targeting oligopeptide, is preferentially used for targeted therapy for bone diseases. In this study, Asp7-cholesterol((Asp)7-CHOL) was synthesized and (Asp)7-CHOL-modified liposome loaded with doxorubicin (DOX) was successfully prepared using both pre-insertion (pre-L) and post-insertion (post-L) methods. The formulation was optimized according to particle size, zeta potential and the drug-loading efficiency of the liposome. In addition, the bone affinity of the (Asp)7-CHOL-modified liposome was evaluated using a hydroxyapatite (HA) absorption method. The results suggested that (Asp)7-CHOL-modified liposome show excellent HA absorption; pre-L showed slightly higher HA binding than post-L. However, post-L had a higher DOX entrapment efficiency than pre-L. In vivo imaging further demonstrated that pre-L showed a higher bone-targeting efficiency than post-L, which was consistent with in vitro results. In all, (Asp)7-CHOL-modified liposome showed excellent bone-targeting activity, suggesting their potential for use as a drug delivery system for bone disease-targeted therapies.
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