Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
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2021
·Vol. 22
·期 5
·1-12
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IF 2.447
Yiqiang Li,Mingwei Zhu,Xuemei Lin,Jingchun Li,Zhe Yuan,Yanhan Liu,Hongwen Xu
Neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) is an autosomal dominant genetic disease that is caused by mutations in the NF1 gene. Various studies have previously demonstrated that the mTOR complex 1 signaling pathway is essential for the NF1‑modulated osteogenic differentiation of bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs). Additionally, the mTOR signaling pathway plays a notable role in autophagy. The present study hypothesized that NF1 could modulate the osteogenic differentiation of BMSCs by regulating the autophagic activities of BMSCs. In the present study, human BMSCs were cultured in an osteogenic induction medium. The expression of the NF1 gene was either knocked down or overexpressed by transfection with a specific small interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting NF1 or the pcDNA3.0 NF1‑overexpression plasmid, respectively. Autophagic activities of BMSCs (Beclin‑1, P62, LC3B I, and LC3B II) were determined using western blotting, electron microscopy, acridine orange (AO) staining and autophagic flux/lysosomal detection by fluorescence microscopy. In addition, the autophagy activator rapamycin (RAPA) and inhibitor 3‑methyladenine (3‑MA) were used to investigate the effects of autophagy on NF1‑modulated osteogenic differentiation in BMSCs. Inhibiting NF1 with siRNA significantly decreased the expression levels of autophagy markers Beclin‑1 and LC3B‑II, in addition to osteogenic differentiation markers osterix, runt‑related transcription factor 2 and alkaline phosphatase. By contrast, overexpressing NF1 with pcDNA3.0 significantly increased their levels. Transmission electron microscopy, AO staining and autophagic flux/lysosomal detection assays revealed that the extent of autophagosome formation was significantly decreased in the NF1‑siRNA group but significantly increased in the NF1‑pcDNA3.0 group when compared with the NC‑siRNA and pcDNA3.0 groups, respectively. In addition, the activity of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway [phosphorylated (p)‑PI3K, p‑AKT, p‑mTOR and p‑p70S6 kinase] was significantly upregulated in the NF1‑siRNA group compared with the NC‑siRNA group, and significantly inhibited in the NF1‑pcDNA3.0 group, compared with the pcDNA3.0 group. The knockdown effects of NF1‑siRNA on the autophagy and osteogenic differentiation of BMSCs were reversed by the autophagy activator RAPA, while the overexpression effects of NF1‑pcDNA3.0 on the autophagy and osteogenic differentiation of BMSCs were reversed by the autophagy inhibitor 3‑MA. In conclusion, results from the present study suggest at the involvement of autophagy in the NF1‑modulated osteogenic differentiation of BMSCs. Furthermore, NF1 may partially regulate the autophagic activity of BMSCs through the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway.
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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
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2021
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Haodong Duan,Kangwei Leng,Xiaolei Xu,Qianmin Li,Dayong Liu,Yuxi Han,Jun Gao,Qing Yu,Zhongwei Wang
In order to study the effect of the substituents in the phosphonyl moiety of monoacylphosphine oxide (MAPO) on its stability and initiation performance, (2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)(phenyl)(benzoyl)phosphine oxide (TMBPO), (4-tolyl)(phenyl)(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide (4-MTPO) and (2,4-xylyl)(phenyl)(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide (2,4-DMTPO) were designed and prepared. Studies on TMBPO showed that the introduction of methyl groups into the phosphonyl moiety of MAPO significantly enhanced its stability and light absorption abilities. The photopolymerization of trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) showed that the initiation efficiency of 4-MTPO and 2,4-DMTPO were higher than that of TPO, regardless of whether it was initiated upon LED at 385 nm or 420 nm. In addition, the migration rates of 4-MTPO and 2,4-DMTPO in cured TMPTA were approximately 1/2 and 1/4 that of TPO, respectively.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2021
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Fanxing Meng,Yanan Qin,Wenrui Zhang,Fei Chen,Li Zheng,Jun Xing,Aihemaitijiang Aihaiti,Minwei Zhang
In this study, a high-performance flexible reduced graphene oxide (rGO) paper electrode composed of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) for the detection of Sudan I was fabricated. Ag NPs were doped with rGO nanoheets by self-assemble and assembled into a paper electrode with layer-by-layer structure via vacuum filtration. Thanks to the highly efficient electrocatalysis of Ag NPs towards reduction of azo bond, the as-prepared hybrid paper can be used alone as a flexible sensor for the detection of Sudan I in chili powder, with the high sensitivity (22.93 μA μmol/L) and the low detection limit (41.3 nmol/L). The sensor also expressed good selectivity, repeatability, reproducibility, stability and recovery between 96.1% and 101.8% (RSD < 6%). With the advantages of low-cost and scalable production capacity, such Ag NPs/rGO functional papers can be used as flexible disposable sensors for electrochemical detection of Sudan I.
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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
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2019
·Vol. 166
·期 12
·B1028
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Dandan Hu,Yufang Hu,Qingqing Zhang,Pingjian Ran,Xinda Liu,Yudi Zheng,Zhiyong Guo,Sui Wang,Di Wu
Monitoring DNA-related enzymes activity precisely and reliably is absolutely vital to better grasp their roles in the initiation and progression of cancer, thus further exploring their functions in cancer diagnosis and treat. Here, we establish a label-free electrochemical biosensor for investigating both terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) and exonuclease I (Exo I) activity by silver-based square wave stripping voltammetry (SWV). The strategy is achieved by two attractive points in design: a TdT-derived enzymatic synthesis of randomly arrayed C-rich DNA sequence and an Exo I-guided enzymatic degradation. This C-rich DNA-templated silver nanoclusters (AgNCs) serve as the electrochemical signal probe, and a signal on-off modulated process is displayed for the existence of TdT and Exo I, respectively. On account of AgNCs-based square wave stripping voltammetry, testing TdT has a linear concentration range of 0.001 to 5 U/mL with a detection limit of 0.00044 U/mL (S/N = 3). Additionally, Exo I with a detection limit of 0.027 U/mL (S/N = 3) can be analyzed with a linear range of 0.1 to 500 U/mL. The real application of the proposed method in their inhibitors screening is also discussed well. The biosensor provides a powerful idea for the ultrasensitive bio-analysis and shows broad clinical application prospect.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2019
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Tao He,Zhaochu Hu,Wen Zhang,Haihong Chen,Yongsheng Liu,Zaicong Wang,Shenghong Hu
In this study, a simple and effective method for the simultaneous analysis of Cl, Br, and I in geological materials based on NH4HF2 digestion in open vessels (Savillex Teflon vials) is proposed. It is very interesting to note that Cl, Br, and I are not lost during NH4HF2 digestion at temperatures of 200–240 °C for 0.5–12 h in open vessels. This should be related to the alkaline atmosphere environment caused by the NH3 produced during NH4HF2 digestion, which suppresses the volatilization loss of Cl, Br, and I. A 100 mg sample of geological materials can be completely digested by using 400 mg of NH4HF2 at 220 °C for 2 h in Savillex Teflon vials. The use of new Savillex Teflon vials significantly reduced the procedural blanks of halogens compared with the old Savillex Teflon vials. The developed method was successfully applied to the simultaneous determination of Cl, Br, and I in a series of international geological reference materials. Most of the results were found to be in reasonable agreement with values reported in the literature. This simple, rapid, effective, and economical analytical method will significantly promote the development of halogen geochemistry.
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2018
·Vol. 185
·期 10
·1-10
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IF 5.705
Huang Yan-Qin,Yang Li-Na,Wang Yong-Sheng,Xue Jin-Hua,Chen Si-Han
The authors report on a one-pot approach for synthesizing highly fluorescent protamine-stabilized gold nanoclusters. These are shown to be a viable nanoprobe for selective and sensitive fluorometric determination of lead(II) via quenching of fluorescence via Pb(II)-Au(I) interaction. Under optimized conditions, fluorescence measured at excitation/emission peaks of 300/599 nm drops in the 80 nM–15 μM lead(II) concentration range. The detection limit is 24 nM, and relative standard deviations (for n = 11) at concentrations of 0.10, 4.0 and 15 μM are 1.6, 2.5 and 1.9%, respectively. The relative recoveries of added lead(II) in the water samples ranged from 97.9 ± 2.29% to 101.2 ± 1.83%.
Lead(II) ions are found to be able to selectively and sensitively quench the fluorescence of the protamine-gold nanoclusters (PRT-AuNCs). Thereby, an inexpensive, selective and sensitive lead(II) assay was established.
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OPTICS EXPRESS
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2018
·Vol. 26
·期 16
·20649-20660
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IF 3.356
Maosen Yang,Jing Yu,Shouzhen Jiang,Chao Zhang,Qianqian Sun,Minghui Wang,Hang Zhou,Chonghui Li,Baoyuan Man,Fengcai Lei
The novel fluorescent nanofiber membranes of CsPbX3 (FNMs/CPX, X = Cl, Br, I) with a wide photoluminescence range from 405 nm to 675 nm are fabricated by a one-step electrospinning method in this paper. Owing to the polymer cladding, these FNMs/CPX show much better thermal and humid stability compared to the common CsPbX3 particles, and the corresponding white light-emitting diode prepared by them also exhibits excellent optical properties. Without adopting any complicated processes, this method opens up a brand new way for the perovskite materials using in lighting and display fields.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2018
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Jiulong Zhao,Chunhua Zhou,Chenyao Wu,Huan Wu,Chunping Zhu,Changqing Ye,Shige Wang,Duowu Zou
Alginate-Ca2+ hydrogel has been used to immobilize photothermal materials as well as chemotherapy drugs at lesion sites to prevent their entry into the bloodstream. However, the alginate-Ca2+ gelation mechanism may result in hardening of the blood vessels because of Ca2+ migration to the lesion site. In this study, a unique and facile one-pot formation of chemotherapeutic (doxorubicin, DOX) and polypyrrole-containing alginate hydrogel was designed by introducing Fe3+, which can synchronously induce the polymerization of pyrrole and gelatinization of alginate, into the DOX/pyrrole/alginate solution. The formed composite hydrogel was endowed with superior photothermal conversion properties in both the NIR-I (650–950 nm) and NIR-II (1000–1700 nm) biowindows and light-to-heat conversion efficiency higher than 50%, which enabled effective tumor hyperthermia treatment. Besides, near-infrared (NIR) irradiation could be used as a remote controller to trigger the DOX-release because of the heat generation, thus achieving continuous and on-demand tumor chemotherapy. The composite polymer hydrogels exhibited favorable hemo-, cyto-, and histocompatibility, as well as simple and cost-effective preparation and good clinical prospects.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2015
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Pengjuan Ni,Yujing Sun,Haichao Dai,Shu Jiang,Wangdong Lu,Yilin Wang,Zhen Li,Zhuang Li
A novel colorimetric method for the detection of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and its inhibitor by taking utilization of Ag [I] ion–3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) detection system has been proposed. Ag [I] ion could oxidize TMB to induce a blue color and an absorption peak centered at 652 nm. In the presence of AChE, acetylthiocholine (ACh) was hydrolyzed to thiocholine. Ag [I] ion could interact with thiocholine and thiocholine can reduce the oxidized TMB (oxTMB) to TMB, both of which suppressed the oxidation capacity of Ag [I] ion, resulting in a blue color fading and a decrease of the absorbance at 652 nm. The developed assay is highly sensitive with a low detection limit of 4.3 μU/mL. Moreover, the method was also applied in AChE inhibitor sensing. The obtained assay is fairly simple, inexpensive and sensitive without the utilization of nanomaterials, which may be not only used for the sensing of other hydrolytic enzyme activities with properly selected substrates, but also used for the screening of potential inhibitor drugs.
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PLoS One
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2014
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Yankai Du,Meishan Pei,Youjun He,Faqi Yu,Wenjuan Guo,Luyan Wang
Fe 3 O 4 (Fe 3 O 4 -CS) coated with magnetic chitosan was prepared as an adsorbent for the removal of Orange I from aqueous solutions and characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM, TEM and TGA measurements. The effects of pH, initial concentration and contact time on the adsorption of Orange I from aqueous solutions were investigated. The decoloration rate was higher than 94% in the initial concentration range of 50–150 mg L −1 at pH 2.0. The maximum adsorption amount was 183.2 mg g −1 and was obtained at an initial concentration of 400 mg L −1 at pH 2.0. The adsorption equilibrium was reached in 30 minutes, demonstrating that the obtained adsorbent has the potential for practical application. The equilibrium adsorption isotherm was analyzed by the Freundlich and Langmuir models, and the adsorption kinetics were analyzed by the pseudo-first-order and pseudo-second-order kinetic models. The higher linear correlation coefficients showed that the Langmuir model (R 2 = 0.9995) and pseudo-second-order model (R 2 = 0.9561) offered the better fits.
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MODELING
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2015
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Xu Shengxian,Wang Jinglan,Zhao Feng,Xia Hongying,Wang Yibo
Two copper(I) complexes [Cu(Pyz-Phen) 2 ]PF 6 (1) and [Cu(POP)(Pyz-Phen)]PF 6 (2) (Pyz-Phen = pyrazino[2,3- f ] [1, 10]phenanthroline, POP = bis[2-diphenylphosphino]-phenyl]ether) have been synthesized and characterized. The photophysical properties of these complexes in solution have been studied. The electronic absorption spectrum of complexes 1 exhibit the lowest-lying MLCT absorption band at 459 nm and high-energy ligand-based transitions at 275 nm, while that of complex 2 exhibits the MLCT/LLCT band at 400 nm and ligand π-π* band at 262 nm. In addition, both 1 and 2 show similar phosphorescence 3 MLCT/ 3 LLCT emissions with maximum emission wavelengths of 569 and 572 nm, respectively. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) were employed to rationalize the photophysical properties of the complexes studied. The theoretical data confirm the assignment of the experimental absorption spectra and the nature of the emitting states.
Photophysical properties of copper(I) complexes containing pyrazine-fused phenanthroline ligands
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SYNTHETIC METALS
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2015
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Jie Zhao,Yu Xie,Dongsheng Hu,Dongsheng Guan,Junhong Chen,Jian Yu,Shuai He,Ying Lü,Huilong Liu,Shaokui Bao,Lei Wang
The graphene (GN)/phenylenediamine–benzaldehyde (PD–BD) Schiff base Ag(I) complexes were synthesized by the Schiff-base reaction. The morphology and phase structure of the samples were characterized by electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques. Their conductive properties were measured by a four-probe conductivity tester at room temperature. And their magnetic properties were tested by a vibrating sample magnetometer. These results show that the PD–BD Schiff base Ag(I) complexes are chemically bonded onto the GN framework to form an intercalated structure. The conductivity, saturation magnetization, residual magnetization and coercive force of the final complex are found to be 5.07 S cm −1 , 2.93 emu g −1 , 0.69 emu g −1 and 104.68 Oe, respectively. Finally, a possible formation and magnetic mechanism of the composites has also been proposed.
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