JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
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2019
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Feng Bai,Ying Wang,Qianqian Han,Mingliang Wu,Qiang Luo,Hongmei Zhang,Yanqing Wang
In this study, hyaluronic acid (HA) and curcumin (CCM) are used as functional molecular skeletons to prepare a reticular polymer HA-CCM* via the free radical polymerization reaction. The results showed that HA-CCM* formed nanomicelles through self-assembly in the aqueous medium. These nanomicelles were seen as star-shaped micelles and the particle diameter distribution range of 220–280 nm, which are used to carry doxorubicin (DOX) with a high drug loading and an entrapment efficiency. The experiment of drug release in vitro indicated that HA-CCM* micelles showed significant acid sensitivity. The anticancer activity of DOX-loaded by HA-CCM* micelles (HA-CCM* + DOX) was quantified by MTT assay , indicating that the cytotoxicity of HA-CCM* + DOX to human cervical cancer cell line (HeLa) and human renal cell adenocarcinoma cell line (786-O) was significantly improved and to normal human renal epithelial cell line (293A) was obviously reduced. DOX from HA-CCM* + DOX micelles can enter into the cells and resulted in cell death. The multifunctional HA-CCM* micelles have good prospects in the field of drug delivery. Overall, these results confirmed the potential of these nanomicelles for carrying DOX in the improved cancer chemotherapy.
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Environmental Science-Nano
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2018
·Vol. 6
·期 1
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Miao Peng,Guijian Guan,Hong Deng,Bin Han,Chen Tian,Junyang Zhuang,Yunyun Xu,Weizhen Liu,Zhang Lin
Considering p-arsanilic acid (p-ASA) as an organoarsenic pollutant, monitoring concentration of p-ASA is significant to maintain environmental security. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) detection is promisingly applied in environmental monitoring for its lower cost and simpler operation, compared to traditional techniques. However, general electrode materials of PEC sensors need to be modified with biological probes due to lack of specific binding sites to analytes, which may lead to complicated sensor fabrication and bio-recognizers inactivation during storage. Herein, a porphyrinic metal–organic framework/reduced graphene oxide (PCN-224/rGO) nanocomposite with simultaneously excellent photoelectric activity and strong binding characteristics was prepared and used to fabricate a PEC sensor for p-ASA detection avoiding the modification of bio-recognizers. Benefiting from the high conductivity of rGO, the separation efficiency of charge carriers was improved in PCN-224/rGO and thereby photocurrent gained an amplification of about 12 times. The PCN-224/rGO nanocomposite had strong affinity to p-ASA via Zr–O–As coordination and π–π stacking. Significantly, the binding of p-ASA could adjust the band position of PCN-224/rGO and facilitate oxygen reduction by releasing more photogenerated electrons, achieving photocurrent enhancement. The developed PEC sensor had a wide detection range, from 10 ng L−1 to 10 mg L−1, with a detection limit of 5.47 ng L−1. Furthermore, the sensor was successfully applied to monitor p-ASA in simulated natural water and swine manure lixivium. This study paved the way for the design of more efficient PEC sensors for environmental monitoring.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2018
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Di Zhu,Dongxuan Guo,Lulu Zhang,Lichao Tan,Haijun Pang,Huiyuan Ma,Mo Zhai
Heteropolyacids (PMo 6 W 6 ) and ferrocene (Fc) were assembled on the glassy carbon electrode for the first time by electrodepositon method, and further combined with reduced graphene oxide (RGO) through the layer-by-layer self-assembly technology, developing a novel non-enzymatic nanocomposite for xanthine (XA) detection. The detection signal of XA was greatly amplified on the Fc-PMo 6 W 6 /RGO nanocomposite modified electrode due to coexist of these three active components. As ferrocene and PMo 6 W 6 all have relatively good electrochemical reversibility, fast electron transfer ability and generation of stable redox forms, meanwhile RGO can enlarge the active surface area of the electrode, increase the conductivity and load of ferrocene and PMo 6 W 6 . Under the optimized conditions, the developed nanocomposite modified electrode displayed superb sensing property towards xanthine with a widely linear range from 5.00 × 10 −8 ∼ 2.03 × 10 -3 M, along with a relatively low detection limit of 1.01 × 10 -8 M. The modified electrode has good stability as it is prepared by the smart combination electrodeposition and layer-by-layer self-assembly. Additionally, the nanocomposite was applied in detecting xanthine in actual samples with acceptable results, demonstrating the feasibility of Fc-PMo 6 W 6 /RGO nanocomposite in routine testing xanthine to some extent.
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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
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2019
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Na Liu,Han Zhang,Jinfeng Zhao,Yin Xu,Fei Ge
Microalgae photosynthesis is sensitive to coexisted contaminates in aquatic environment, thereby causes adverse effect on algal growth and nutrients uptake. Here, we investigated the photosynthetic toxicity mechanism of cetyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (CTAC)-induced on a green microalga Chlorella vulgaris F1068 ( C. vulgaris F1068). Results showed that CTAC reduced the algal growth rate, nutrients removal efficiency and weakened the photosynthetic performance. Meanwhile, the efficiency of oxygen evolution complex (OEC) and oxygen evolvement rates stressed by CTAC were significantly declined to 90.48% and 58.48% of the control (without CTAC), respectively. In addition, atomic force microscopy (AFM) detected the damage of PSII-OEC morphology and structure by CTAC. Furthermore, proteomic analysis showed that 41% of proteins were in the chloroplast thylakoid membranes which function in photosynthesis. The activity of oxygen-evolving enhancer protein 2 (OEE2 or PsbP) involved in electron transfer was significantly inhibited by CTAC, which down-regulated 15.14-fold in the presence of 0.6 mg/L CTAC. These results indicated that photosynthetic inhibition of CTAC mainly occurred in the PSII-OEC. This study provided a new perspective of the photosynthetic response in evaluation of environmental bioimpacts of surfactants on microalgae.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2019
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Tianqi Nie,Zhiyu He,Yang Zhou,Jinchang Zhu,Kuntao Chen,Lixin Liu,Kam W. Leong,Hai-Quan Mao,Yongming Chen
Oral delivery of nucleic acid therapy is a promising strategy in treating various diseases because of its higher patient compliance and therapeutic efficiency compared to parenteral routes of administration. However, its success has been limited by the low transfection efficiency resulting from nucleic acid entrapment in the mucus layer and epithelial barrier of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Herein, we describe an approach to overcome this phenomenon and improve oral DNA delivery in the context of treating type II diabetes (T2D). Linear PEI (lPEI) was used as a carrier to form complexes with plasmid DNA encoding glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), a common target in T2D treatments. These nanoparticles were then coated with a mixture of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) and 1,2-dimyristoyl-rac-glycero-3-methoxy poly(ethylene glycol)-2000 (DMG-PEG) to render the nanoparticle surface hydrophilic and electrostatically neutral. The surface-modified lPEI/DNA nanoparticles showed higher diffusivity and transport in the mucus layer of the GI tract and mediated high levels of transfection efficiency in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, these modified nanoparticles demonstrated high levels of GLP-1 expression for more than 24 h in the liver, lungs, and intestine in a T2D murine model after a single dose, as well as controlled blood glucose levels within a normal range for at least 18 h with repeatable therapeutic effects upon multiple dosages. Taken together, this work demonstrates the feasibility of an oral plasmid DNA delivery approach in the treatment of T2D through a facile surface modification to improve the mucus permeability and delivery efficiency of the nanoparticles.
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JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
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2019
·Vol. 42
·期 15
·2523-2533
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IF 2.516
Yuan Yuan,Min Jiang,Hongyang Zhang,Ju Liu,Min Zhang,Ping Hu
We present an ultra high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet spectroscopy and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous quantification of ten purines (adenine, hypoxanthine, guanine, xanthine, deoxyadenosine, adenosine, inosine, guanosine, xanthosine, and uric acid) and creatinine in human urine. After chromatographic separation on an ACE Excel 2 AQ column, high abundant creatinine and uric acid and the other low abundant purines were sequentially detected by ultraviolet and quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry within a single run. Method validations including specificity (improved by accurate mass measurement), linearity (correlation coefficients ≥0.9944), limit of quantification (0.002–9.756 µg/mL), intra- and interday precision (relative standard deviations ≤9.1 and 14.0%, respectively), accuracy (relative errors ≤13.1%), extraction recovery (between 90.3 and 109.6%), matrix effect (between 85.3 and 110.5%), and stability (relative errors ≤14.3%) were fully evaluated. This approach was applied to characterize the disordered purine metabolism in acute and chronic gout as an example. Quantitative results (normalized by creatinine) showed that an overproduction of urinary purine precursors might be involved in the gout process. The developed method represents a useful tool to investigate the purine disturbances in gout and other relevant diseases.
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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
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2019
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IF 3.858
Tianpei Cai,Haijuan Zhang,Jia Chen,Zhan Li,Hongdeng Qiu
A new strategy based on synergistic effect of the carbon dots and their precursor was proposed to enhance the selectivity of hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC). In this work, polyethyleneimine (PEI) and PEI-functionalized carbon dots (PEICDs) mix-grafted silica packing material was prepared to act as a novel HILIC stationary phase. Both inner and outer surface of the porous silica are decorated with the mixture of PEI and carbon dots. This stationary phase, namely Sil-PEI/CDs, demonstrate enhanced retention ability and selectivity toward polar analytes, with which 11 nucleosides and nucleobases and 9 ginsenosides can be nicely separated. The Sil-PEI/CDs (RSD 0.12% – 0.54%) exhibited even better stability than the traditional PEI modified stationary phase (RSD 0.39% – 0.87%) within 40 h of continuously elution. And excellent column efficiency was observed from Sil-PEI/CDs (∼65,000 plates/m for cytidine). The strategy of mixed stabilization revealed a new method to prepare good performanced carbon dots based chromatographic column.
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Biointerphases
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2018
·Vol. 13
·期 6
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IF 2.455
Cheng Fang,Li Mingyang,Zhao Xuguang,Wang Hanqi,He Wei,Hua Xin,Wang Qing,Qu Jingping
Traditional strategies for the functionalization of materials displaying hydroxyl groups either require active esterification reagents or involve the nucleophilic attack of the hydroxyl group toward electrophilic groups. The former tends to hydrolyze in aqueous solutions while the latter occurs under harsh conditions. Herein, the authors reported a new method for the functionalization of hydroxyl groups on the surface via catalytic oxa-Michael addition with vinyl sulfones. Using hydroxyl group terminated self-assembled monolayers as a model surface, a series of organocatalysts were screened and triphenylphosphine stood out for the best catalytic activity. The catalytic reaction on the surface was characterized by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The information of reaction kinetics was obtained using static water contact angle measurements. Once conjugated with ligands onto the functionalized surfaces, the multivalence binding of proteins was investigated by quartz crystal microbalance experiments. By varying the reaction conditions, e.g., catalyst types and reaction times, ligands can be anchored with a controllable density, which would be helpful to establish the relationships between ligand density and bioactivity.
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2019
·Vol. 186
·期 8
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Wang You,Huo Danqun,Wu Huixiang,Li Jaiwei,Zhang Qinghai,Deng Bo,Zhou Jing,Yang Mei,Hou Changjun
Carboxylic acids (CAs) have been reported as potential biomarkers of specific diseases or human body odors. A visual sensor array is described here that is based on indicator displacement assays (IDAs). The arrays were prepared by spotting solutions of the following metal complexes: Murexide-Ni(II), murexide-Cu(II), zincon-Zn(II) and xylenol orange-Cu(II), with the capability of discrimination of 15 carboxylic acids (CAs) and the quantitation of pyruvic acid (PA). Clear differences can be observed through distinctive difference maps obtained within 5 min by subtraction of red, green and blue (RGB) values of digital images after and before exposure to analytes. After an analysis of multidimensional data by pattern recognition algorithms including HCA, PCA and LDA, excellent classification specificity, and accuracy of >96% were obtained for all samples. The IDA array exhibited a linear range from 10 to 1500 μM with a theoretical detection limit of 3.5 μM towards PA. Recoveries of real samples varied from 84.8% to 114.3%. As-fabricated IDA sensor array showed an excellent selectivity among other organic interfering substances and a good batch to batch reproducibility, demonstrating its robustness. All these observations suggested that the IDA sensor array is one of the most promising paths for the discrimination of CAs.
Schematic diagram of indicator displacement assay (a), the procedure for acquisition of difference maps (b), and pattern recognitions for CAs (c). The method uses hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA)
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PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
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2019
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Xu-Feng Wang,Jin Ren,Hai-Qing He,Liang Liang,Xin Xie,Zi-Xin Li,Jian-Guo Zhao,Jing-Mou Yu
In this study, reduction-sensitive self-assembled polymer nanoparticles based on poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) and chondroitin sulfate A (CSA) were developed and characterized. PLGA was conjugated with CSA via a disulfide linkage (PLGA-ss-CSA). The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of PLGA-ss-CSA conjugate is 3.5 µg/mL. The anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) was chosen as a model drug, and was effectively encapsulated into the nanoparticles (PLGA-ss-CSA/DOX) with high loading efficiency of 15.1%. The cumulative release of DOX from reduction-sensitive nanoparticles was only 34.8% over 96 h in phosphate buffered saline (PBS, pH 7.4). However, in the presence of 20 mM glutathione-containing PBS environment, DOX release was notably accelerated and almost complete from the reduction-sensitive nanoparticles up to 96 h. Moreover, efficient intracellular DOX release of PLGA-ss-CSA/DOX nanoparticles was confirmed by CLSM assay in A549 cells. In vitro cytotoxicity study showed that the half inhibitory concentrations of PLGA-ss-CSA/DOX nanoparticles and free DOX against A549 cells were 1.141 and 1.825 µg/mL, respectively. Therefore, PLGA-ss-CSA/DOX nanoparticles enhanced the cytotoxicity of DOX in vitro. These results suggested that PLGA-ss-CSA nanoparticles could be a promising carrier for drug delivery.
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TALANTA
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2019
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Qi Zhuang,Xiaojing Si,Li Li,Hongyan Zeng,Yaping Ding
Fluorescent pH probes are promising for both in vitro and in vivo pH detections in chemical and biochemical systems. Previously, the multi-color and whole cell pH sensing is a challenge for conventional fluorescent nanomaterials . In this work, we report an N, S co-doped carbon dots (N, S-CDs)-based fluorescent pH probe that can response to different incident light with tunable wavelength. The emission wavelength is tunable and correlated to the excitation wavelength, enabling self-adaptive multi-color sensing. The N, S-CDs was synthesized by a one-step hydrothermal method utilizing glucose, ammonium persulfate and ethylenediamine as precursors. The fluorescence of N, S-CDs shows a good linear relationship against pH values from 3.0 to 10.0 with a linear correlation coefficient of 0.996. The good biocompatibility and small size fulfill the demand of whole cell intracellular imaging. We have demonstrated that the N, S-CDs have successfully applied in HepG2 cells for the self-adaptive multi-color imaging.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2018
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Yamin Xiong,Lihong Zhou,Hui Wang,Huiling Li,Yue Hu,Peijun Meng,Xueying Zhang,Peili Huang
Monitoring the level of exchangeable copper (CuEXC) and ceruloplasmin (Cp) in serum is of great significance for Wilson’s disease (WD). In this work, a facile one-step competitive immunoassay for rapid and simultaneous detection of CuEXC and Cp has been developed based on antigens coated magnetic nanoparticles (immuno-MNPs) and antibodies functionalized quantum dots (QDs-Abs). Just by mixing immuno-MNPs, with diluted serum and QDs-Abs together, the antigens on immuno-MNPs compete with the target in serum and bind to QDs-Abs, thereby causing the changes in fluorescence intensity of QDs. Under selected conditions, this one-step method exhibited excellent precision and selectivity with the measured limit of detection of 0.2 nM and 7.0 μg/L for CuEXC and Cp, respectively. Most importantly, this method was successfully applied to detect CuEXC and Cp without the usual time-consuming pretreatment. The results showed no significant difference ( P >0.01) from those of ICP-AES and ELISA; moreover, CuEXC significantly decreased to a normal level after the treatment of preliminarily diagnosed WD patients, while the changes of Cp level is not significant ( P > 0.01). Therefore, the proposed one-step competitive immunoassay has great potential applications in the rapid laboratory diagnosis of WD with distinct advantages over the existing methods in terms of multi-target, accuracy, facile, fast and cost-effectiveness.
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