npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
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2023
·Vol. 9
·期 1
·1-14
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IF 9.2
Hu Jie,Wu Yifan,Kang Luyuan,Liu Yisi,Ye Hao,Wang Ran,Zhao Jinbiao,Zhang Guolong,Li Xilong,Wang Junjun,Han Dandan
Elimination of specific enteropathogenic microorganisms is critical to gut health. However, the complexity of the gut community makes it challenging to target specific bacterial organisms. Accumulating evidence suggests that various foods can change the abundance of intestinal bacteria by modulating prophage induction. By using pathogenic Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) ATCC 25922 as a model in this research, we explored the potential of dietary modulation of prophage induction and subsequent bacterial survival. Among a panel of sugars tested in vitro, D -xylose was shown to efficiently induce prophages in E. coli ATCC 25922, which depends, in part, upon the production of D -lactic acid. In an enteric mouse model, prophage induction was found to be further enhanced in response to propionic acid. Dietary D -xylose increased the proportion of Clostridia which converted D -lactic acid to propionic acid. Intestinal propionic acid levels were diminished, following either oral gavage with the dehydrogenase gene ( ldhA )-deficient E. coli ATCC 25922 or depletion of intestinal Clostridia by administration of streptomycin. D -Xylose metabolism and exposure to propionic acid triggered E. coli ATCC 25922 SOS response that promoted prophage induction. E. coli ATCC 25922 mutant of RecA, a key component of SOS system, exhibited decreased phage production. These findings suggest the potential of using dietary components that can induce prophages as antimicrobial alternatives for disease control and prevention by targeted elimination of harmful gut bacteria.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Peng Zhu,Dongze Niu,Sainan Zhang,Chunyu Li,Dongmin Yin,Junqiang Zhi,Lili Zhang,Xingmei Jiang,Jianjun Ren
This study aimed to examine the effects of sterilization methods on the degradation ability and bioactive compound production of Irpex lacteus in wheat straw. Following 28 days of fermentation, the lignin content of samples autoclaved and pasteurized at pH 4.5 was reduced by 16.0 % − 21.7 % compared to pasteurized samples without pH adjustment, accompanied by a significant increase in sugar yield ranging from 83.30 % − 96.35 %. Autoclaved samples exhibited the lowest total phenol content and antioxidant activity ( P < 0.05). Bacillus occupied an absolute advantage (89.1 %) in samples pasteurized at pH 4.5, whereas 10 bacterial genera exhibited abundances above 1 % in pasteurized samples without pH adjustment. Furthermore, 45.1 % − 47.2 % of the metabolites comprised lipids and lipid-like molecules, and some of them were improved by pasteurization at pH 4.5. Overall, pasteurization at acidic conditions is an effective sterilization method for the fungal conversion of wheat straw.
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JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
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2023
·Vol. 47
·期 1
·2300905
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Min Yang,Haokun Mei,Yu Jiang,Feifang Zhang,Ziteng Yu,Bingcheng Yang
Simultaneous chromatographic separation of the anomers of saccharides was achieved by using a polymer zwitterionic stationary phase functionalized by acrylamide-type sulfobetaine. By optimization of separation parameters including column temperature, pH, and flow rate, the column operated in hydrophilic interaction chromatography mode exhibited excellent separation selectivity toward five monosaccharides and their anomers (including ribose, xylose, galactose, glucose, and arabinose) and two disaccharides (lactose and maltose). Baseline separation could be achieved at mild operation conditions such as 20–30°C of column temperature or typical mobile phase composition (85% acetrontrile–15% 20 mM ammonium formate [NH 4 FA]) with wide pH tolerance range of 2–8. This offers a rapid way to determine the configuration of α or β anomer of the saccharides.
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Gut Microbes
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2023
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IF 12.2
Jie Hu,Yifan Wu,Xingjian Zhou,Luyuan Kang,Shiyi Zhang,Yisi Liu,Yu Pi,Xilong Li,Junjun Wang,Dandan Han
The pathogenicity of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 is predominantly associated with Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) that poses a huge threat to human and animal intestinal health. Production of Stx2 requires expression of stx2 gene, which is located in the genome of lambdoid Stx2 prophage. Growing evidence has implicated that many commonly consumed foods participate in the regulation of prophage induction. In this study, we aimed to explore whether specific dietary functional sugars could inhibit Stx2 prophage induction in E. coli O157:H7, thereby preventing Stx2 production and promoting intestinal health. We demonstrated that Stx2 prophage induction in E. coli O157:H7 was strongly inhibited by L-arabinose both in vitro and in a mouse model. Mechanistically, L-arabinose at doses of 9, 12, or 15 mM diminished RecA protein levels, a master mediator of the SOS response, contributing to reduced Stx2-converting phage induction. L-Arabinose inhibited quorum sensing and oxidative stress response, which are known as positive regulators of the SOS response and subsequent Stx2 phage production. Furthermore, L-arabinose impaired E. coli O157:H7 arginine transport and metabolism that were involved in producing Stx2 phage. Collectively, our results suggest that L-arabinose may be exploited as a novel Stx2 prophage induction inhibitor against E. coli O157:H7 infection.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Zheng Guo,Han-Yi Zheng,Zhong-Ying Huang,Yue-Zhen Liu,Yao-Hua Liu,Yun Chen,Jing Gao,Yong Hu,Chao Huang
A ternary deep eutectic solvent (DES) consisting of choline chloride, lactic acid, and urea in a molar ratio of 1:2:2 was used to pretreat chamomile residue, followed by carbon dots (CDs) preparation using a one-pot solvothermal method . The CDs prepared under the suitable conditions had a high quantum yield of 47.34% and could be used as a bifunctional fluorescent probe for the detection of tartrazine and Fe(III). The concentration of tartrazine or Fe(III) had a good linear relationship with the fluorescence intensity of CDs that the determination coefficient ( R 2 ) was 0.9957 and 0.9943, and the limit of detection (LOD) was 40 nM and 119 nM, respectively. After verifying the different fluorescence quenching mechanisms of CDs by these two substances, a quantitative analysis was performed on real samples with recoveries of 90.70%∼104.29%. Overall, this study provided a promising technology for chemical conversion from low-cost chamomile residue to attractive bifunctional fluorescent probe.
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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
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2023
·Vol. 33
·期 33
·2301727
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IF 19
Amjad Farid,Chen Zhonghua,Abdul Sammed Khan,Muhammad Javid,Ijaz Ahmad Khan,Aqib Ali Khan,Zeng Fan,Lujun Pan
High fabrication cost, chemical instability, and complex immobilization of enzyme molecules are critical issues of enzyme-based glucose sensors. Designing state-of-the-art, binder-free, and non-enzymatic glucose sensing probes plays an imperative role to cope with the aforementioned issues. 3D carbonaceous nanomaterials coated with transition metal vanadates (TMVs) are a favorable biomimetic platform for glucose quantification. Peculiar hierarchical structure, enhanced conductivity, synergistic interaction, multiple oxidation states, and high catalytic activity would make such composite a potential contender for non-enzymatic glucose sensing. Herein, 3D helical-shaped carbon nanocoils (CNCs) are grown on nickel foam (NF) via chemical vapor deposition method to prepare a robust CNCs/NF scaffold. Then, a hydrothermal route is followed to grow interconnected free-standing Ni 3 V 2 O 8 nanosheets (NSs) on CNCs/NF scaffold. This novel and binder-free Ni 3 V 2 O 8 NSs/CNCs/NF hierarchical composite possesses superior electrochemical active area (ECSA) and exceptional electrochemical efficacy. Amperometric analysis exhibits extremely prompt detection time (0.1 s), elevated sensitivity (5214 µA mM −1 cm −2 ), and low detection limit (0.04 µM). Developed sensor demonstrates appreciable recoveries (93.3 to 103.3%) regarding glucose concentration in human serum. The appealing analytical results show that deployment of a 3D helical-shaped hierarchical smart scaffold can be an effective strategy for developing efficient and advanced non-enzymatic glucose sensors.
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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
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2023
·Vol. 29
·期 34
·e202300454
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Henglong Xiang,Sijun Huang,Dongwei Zhu,Liqiang Yu,Rui Liu,Yi Guo,Li Xu
Graphical [Ag(NH 3 ) 2 ] + can be directly used as an electron acceptor for the oxidation of glucose by AuNPs to accelerate Tollens′ reaction, The formed Ag nanoparticles continued to act as a cascading catalyst to accelerate the reaction and indicator, which provides a possibility for the rapid colorimetric glucose detection. Au nanoparticles (NPs) have been proven to be excellent glucose oxidase (GOx) mimics, which can catalyze the electrons transform pathway from glucose to oxygen. This study confirmed AuNPs can accelerate the reaction between [Ag(NH 3 ) 2 ] + and glucose under alkaline conditions, which is also known as the Tollens′ reaction, and the possible mechanism was proposed. Here, [Ag(NH 3 ) 2 ] + instead of O 2 acted directedly as an electron acceptor during glucose oxidation catalyzed by AuNPs, accompanied by hydrogen transfer. The as-synthesized Ag nanoparticles can also catalyze this process, similar to AuNPs, via a unique cascading catalysis mechanism in the Tollens′ reaction. A simple and heatless glucose colorimetric assay can be established based on the plasmonic band of AgNPs with a liner range of 0.6–22.2 μM, and the limit of detection is 0.32 μM.
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Marine Drugs
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2019
·Vol. 17
·期 4
·195
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IF 3.772
Ruowei Guan,Yuan Peng,Lutan Zhou,Wenqi Zheng,Xixi Liu,Pin Wang,Qingxia Yuan,Na Gao,Longyan Zhao,Jinhua Zhao
Apostichopus japonicusis one of the most economically important species in sea cucumber aquaculture in China. Fucosylated glycosaminoglycan fromA. japonicus(AjFG) has shown multiple pharmacological activities. However, results from studies on the structure of AjFG are still controversial. In this study, the deaminative depolymerization method that is glycosidic bond-selective was used to prepare the depolymerized products from AjFG (dAjFG), and then a series of purified oligosaccharide fragments such as tri-, hexa-, nona-, and dodecasaccharides were obtained from dAjFG by gel permeation chromatography. The 1D/2D NMR and ESI-MS spectrometry analyses showed that these oligosaccharides had the structural formula ofl-FucS-α1,3-d-GlcA-β1,3-{d-GalNAc4S6S-β1,4-[l-FucS-α1,3-]d-GlcA-β1,3-}n-d-anTal-diol4S6S(n= 0, 1, 2, 3; FucS represents Fuc2S4S, Fuc3S4S, or Fuc4S). Thus, the unambiguous structure of native AjFG can be rationally deduced: it had the backbone of {-4-d-GlcA-β1,3-d-GalNAc4S6S-β1-}n, which is similar to chondroitin sulfate E, and eachd-GlcA residue in the backbone was branched with al-FucS monosaccharide atO-3. Bioactivity assays confirmed that dAjFG and nonasaccharides and dodecasaccharides from AjFG had potent anticoagulant activity by intrinsic FXase inhibition while avoiding side effects such as FXII activation and platelet aggregation.Keywords:Apostichopus japonicus;fucosylated glycosaminoglycan;oligosaccharide;unambiguous structure;anti-Fxase
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ACS Catalysis
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2018
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Yue Yan,Zihao Zhang,Seong-Min Bak,Siyu Yao,Xiaobing Hu,Zulipiya Shadike,Chi-Linh Do-Thanh,Feng Zhang,Hao Chen,Xilei Lyu,Kequan Chen,Yimei Zhu,Xiuyang Lu,Pingkai Ouyang,Jie Fu,Sheng Dai
Chemocatalysis of sugars to methyl lactate (MLA) exhibits great advantages over the conventional fermentation approach because of its higher productivity and cost-effective separation process. However, widely used supported metal oxide catalysts suffer from deactivation resulting from sintering during the reaction and removal of coke at high temperatures. Herein, we report ultrasmall cobalt oxide clusters (∼1.7 nm) stabilized within silicalite-1 crystals catalyst (CoO@silicalite-1), exhibiting superior catalytic activity and resistance to sintering for the conversion of fructose into methyl lactate. HAADF-STEM, EDS-mapping, and XRD experiments identify the existence of confined CoO clusters. XANES and Raman spectra demonstrated the covalent interaction between CoO and silicalite-1. Thanks to the ultrasmall CoO particle size (∼1.7 nm), the CoO@silicalite-1 affords nearly 100-fold higher Co-mass-based activity (mg MLA/mg Co) compared with CoO or Co3O4 particles outside the silicalite-1 framework. More importantly, this catalyst exhibits good reuse performance via the removal of coke with facile calcination.
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Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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2019
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Hao Chen,Xialei Wang,Xilei Lyu,Ling Xu,Juncheng Wang,Xiuyang Lu
Recovering heavy metals from a hyperaccumulator is of significant interest; however, such metals are typically extracted in the liquid phase, which increases the cost of recovery. In this work, hydrothermal processing is used to extract Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn from enriched Sedum alfredii Hance in order to separate the heavy metals into the solid phase for easy recovery and the simultaneous production of bio–oil. The results show that almost all enriched Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn (87.8% Ce, 87.5% Cu, 90.2% Pd and 87.2% Zn) are concentrated in the solid phase at only 320 °C (30 min), which also contains considerable carbohydrates. Interestingly, the additives/H 2 O 2 do not affect the removal of metals during the hydrothermal process. The yield of bio-oil is 21.5% (38.1 MJ/kg of calorific value) and is obtained with almost no heavy metals. Finally, we use different ratios of metals ions to reducing sugars as well as the non-hyper accumulating ecotype Sedum alfredii Hance to study the behavior of metals’ recovery. It is showed that the heavy metals are recovered in the solid phase due to reducing substances in the biomass that convert metal ions to the metallic state.
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CARBON
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2019
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Pei Yang,Ziqi Zhu,Tao Zhang,Minzhi Chen,Yizhong Cao,Wei Zhang,Xin Wang,Xiaoyan Zhou,Weimin Chen
The realization of long-wavelength emissions and thoroughly understanding of photoluminescence (PL) mechanism are still huge challenges to be addressed for further development of carbohydrate-derived carbon dots (CDs). Herein, novel CDs with excellent green emission were synthesized from a precursor comprising of xylose and m -phenylenediamine in phosphoric acid solution via a simple microwave-assisted hydrothermal method . The PL efficiency was dependent on the combination of different acids and the precursor as well as the synthesis temperature, while the PL properties were mainly related to the acid base environment of precursor. Optical performance and structural characterization revealed that the oxygen-containing groups and protonated amino groups were mainly responsible for the blue and green emission properties, respectively. Moreover, a multi-center fluorescent mechanism on the different PL performances of xylose-derived CDs was proposed and verified by further investigating the pH-dependent PL behaviors. Based on the switching between green and blue emission in different pH regions, the xylose-derived CDs solution was demonstrated to be a promising fluorescent ink for anti-counterfeit printing. This research open a door for value-added utilization of xylose, as well as providing a facile and green strategy for large-scale preparation of CDs.
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KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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2019
·Vol. 36
·期 5
·740-752
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Gong Chen,Wei Junnan,Tang Xing,Zeng Xianhai,Sun Yong,Lin Lu
Biomass-derived levulinic acid (LA) and its esters are currently envisaged as versatile, renewable platform chemicals. In this study, cellulosic pulp derived from the cooking of lignocellulosic biomass with active oxygen and solid alkali was employed as raw material for the formation of LA or ethyl levulinate (EL). This pretreatment process is highly effective for the delignification and deconstruction of lignocellulose matrix, making a facile degradation of the resulting cellulosic pulp to LA or EL. At this point, the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis or ethanolysis of cellulosic pulp was optimized by response surface methodology (RSM), offering desirable LA yield of 65.3% or EL yield of 62.7%, which is significantly higher than those obtained from raw biomass. More importantly, coking behavior on the inwall of the reactor was eliminated during the hydrolysis or ethanolysis of cellulosic pulp, which is one of the top challenges for the acid-catalyzed conversion of biomass in an industrial scale.
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