Preparation of amino-modified carbon quantum dots-ZnO/cellulose nanofiber multifunctional hydrogel: Enhanced adsorption synergistic photoreduction and reversible fluorescence response visual recognition of Cr(VI).

This work innovatively used cellulose nanofibers as a photocatalyst carrier, which could recycle nano-photocatalysts and minimize nanoparticle aggregation. The morphology, structures, chemical composition, optical-electronic properties and photocatalytic performance of amino-modified carbon quantum dots-ZnO/cellulose nanofiber (N-CQDs-ZnO/CNF: ZCH-2) hydrogel were characterized by SEM, TEM, BET, EDS, XRD, FTIR, UV-vis, XPS, PL and other techniques. The mechanism of Cr(VI) adsorption synergistic photoreduction by ZCH-2 was discussed in detail.

CALB1: Anovel antiviral factor in chicken ileal mucus.

Intestinal mucus is the first line of defense against pathogens and has several active components. Poultry have a short intestine, the mucus of which may contain antiviral components. We hence investigated the antiviral components of mucus and explored their mechanisms of action.

IBV QX affects the antigen presentation function of BMDCs through nonstructural protein16.

The gamma-coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) has a high mutation rate and mainly invades the respiratory mucosa, making it difficult to prevent and causing great economic losses. Nonstructural protein 16 (NSP16) of IBV QX also not only plays an indispensable role in virus invading but also might hugely influence the antigen's recognition and presentation ability of host BMDCs. Hence, our study tries to illustrate the underline mechanism of how NSP16 influences the immune function of BMDCs.

Study on the Influencing Factors of Osteoarthritis in Southern China.

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common chronic disease with numerous and interacting influencing factors, and current inadequate patient perceptions and behaviors in access to care contribute to the difficulties in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of osteoarthritis.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influencing factors of osteoarthritis (OA) in a southern Chinese population and to provide a scientific basis for the prevention and treatment of OA.

Methods: A 1 : 2 matched case-control study was used to select 160 patients with OA from three hospitals in southern China as a case group.

Fluorescent probe for the detection of hypochlorous acid in water samples and cell models.

Hypochlorous acid (HClO) is a special kind of reactive oxygen species, which plays an important role in resisting pathogen invasion and maintaining cell redox balance and other physiological processes. In addition, HClO is commonly used in daily life as a bleaching and disinfectant agent. Its excessive use can also lead to death of water animals and serious respiratory and skin diseases in humans.

Selective Recognition of Gallic Acid Using Hollow Magnetic Molecularly Imprinted Polymers with Double Imprinting Surfaces.

Gallic acid is widely used in the field of food and medicine due to its diversified bioactivities. The extraction method with higher specificity and efficiency is the key to separate and purify gallic acid from complex biological matrix. Herein, using self-made core-shell magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MMIP) with gallic acid as template, a hollow magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer (HMMIP) with double imprinting/adsorption surfaces was prepared by etching the mesoporous silica intermediate layer of MMIP.

A two-photon "turn-on" fluorescent probe for both exogenous and endogenous selenocysteine detection and imaging in living cells and zebrafish.

Selenocysteine (Sec) is recognized as the 21st amino acid employing as an essential building block for selenoproteins (SePs), which plays a significant role in various physiological processes. Therefore, there is an urgent need to reasonably develop some reliable and rapid methods for Sec detection in biological systems. In this work, we reported a new two-photon (TP) fluorescent probe BNT-Sec for Sec detection and imaging in living cells and zebrafish with two part: (1) a D-π-A-structured naphthalene derivative as a TP fluorophore; (2) a well-know Sec responsive site with strong intromolecular charge transfer effect (ICT) to selectively detect endogenous and exogenous.

A natural product phillygenin suppresses osteosarcoma growth and metastasis by regulating the SHP-1/JAK2/STAT3 signaling.

Osteosarcoma represents one of the most devastating cancers due to its high metastatic potency and fatality. Osteosarcoma is insensitive to traditional chemotherapy. Identification of a small molecule that blocks osteosarcoma progression has been a challenge in drug development.

Enhancement of long-lived luminescence in nanophosphors by surface defect passivation.

Herein, we found that surface defects quench persistent luminescence in nanophosphors. Passivation of surface defects by thermal treatment or surface coating can effectively enhance the intensity and prolong the decay time of persistent luminescence. The surface passivated persistent nanophosphors are promising in autofluorescence-free bioimaging and time-gated steganography.

Vinyl Phosphate-Functionalized, Magnetic, Molecularly-Imprinted Polymeric Microspheres' Enrichment and Carbon Dots' Fluorescence-Detection of Organophosphorus Pesticide Residues.

The rapid detection of organophosphorus pesticide residues in food is crucial to food safety. One type of novel, magnetic, molecularly-imprinted polymeric microsphere (MMIP) was prepared with vinyl phosphate and 1-octadecene as a collection of dual functional monomers, which were screened by Gaussian09W molecular simulation. MMIPs were used to enrich organic phosphorus, which then detected by fluorescence quenching in vinyl phosphate-modified carbon dots (CDs@VPA) originated from anhydrous citric acid.

A label-free and sensitive photoluminescence sensing platform based on long persistent luminescence nanoparticles for the determination of antibiotics and 2,4,6-trinitrophenol.

The rapid detection of pollutants with high sensitivity and selectivity is of considerable significance for security screening, environmental safety, and human health. In this study, we prepared persistent luminescence nanoparticles (PLNPs) and constructed a label-free sensor for sensitive and selective detection of pollutants in real samples and test papers. Following excitation, PLNPs could store absorbed light energy and release it in the form of luminescence.

mRNA-Initiated, Three-Dimensional DNA Amplifier Able to Function inside Living Cells.

DNA molecular machines show great promise in fields such as biomarker discovery and biological activity regulation, but operating DNA machines with specific functions within living systems remains extremely challenging. Although DNA machines have been engineered with exact molecular-level specifications, some intrinsic imperfections such as poor cell permeation and fragility in complex cytoplasmic milieu persist due to the well-established character of nucleic acid molecules. To circumvent these problems, we herein report a molecularly engineered, entropy-driven three-dimensional DNA amplifier (EDTD) that can operate inside living cells in response to a specific mRNA target.

Tetraphenylethene derivative modified DNA oligonucleotide for in situ potassium ion detection and imaging in living cells.

The monitoring of K is very important and emergency because of their unique relationship in various disease diagnosis and treatment. G-quadruplex analogue is a classical recognition unit for K detection and has been widely applied in K relevant research. Common fluorescent dyes were employed for design of G-quadruplex structure-based K probes which suffered from the aggregation-caused quenching effect, and possibly limited the biological applications in living systems.

Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer-Based DNA Tetrahedron Nanotweezer for Highly Reliable Detection of Tumor-Related mRNA in Living Cells.

Accurate detection and imaging of tumor-related mRNA in living cells hold great promise for early cancer detection. However, currently, most probes designed to image intracellular mRNA confront intrinsic interferences arising from complex biological matrices and resulting in inevitable false-positive signals. To circumvent this problem, an intracellular DNA nanoprobe, termed DNA tetrahedron nanotweezer (DTNT), was developed to reliably image tumor-related mRNA in living cells based on the FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) "off" to "on" signal readout mode.

A universal aptameric biosensor: Multiplexed detection of small analytes via aggregated perylene-based broad-spectrum quencher.

A universal aptameric system based on the taking advantage of double-stranded DNA/perylene diimide (dsDNA/PDI) as the signal probe was developed for multiplexed detection of small molecules. Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides which are selected in vitro by a process known as systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment. In this work, we synthesized a new kind of PDI and reported this aggregated PDI could quench the double-stranded DNA (dsDNA)-labeled fluorophores with a high quenching efficiency.

Molecular engineering of a mitochondrial-targeting two-photon in and near-infrared out fluorescent probe for gaseous signal molecules HS in deep tissue bioimaging.

Hydrogen sulfide (HS), one of the biologically important gaseous signal molecules, plays an essential role in diverse normal biochemical functions and pathological processes. Herein, an efficient two-photon in and near-infrared out mitochondria-targeting dye has been designed, synthesized and characterized. It is easily synthesized by the condensation reaction (C˭C) of 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde and 6-(diethylamino)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroxanthylium (mitochondria-targeting), which possesses large two-photon action absorption cross-section ~160g and high fluorescence quantum yield ~0.

Using modified aptamers for site specific protein-aptamer conjugations.

Conjugation of DNAs to defined locations on a protein surface will offer powerful tools for positioning functional groups and molecules in biological and biomedical studies. However, tagging protein with DNA is challenging in physiological environments, which requires a bioorthogonal approach. Here we report a chemical solution to selectively conjugate DNA aptamer with a protein by protein-aptamer template (PAT)-directed reactions.

A high-resolution mitochondria-targeting ratiometric fluorescent probe for detection of the endogenous hypochlorous acid.

Hypochlorite anion, one of the biologically important reactive oxygen species, plays an essential role in diverse normal biochemical functions and abnormal pathological processes. Herein, an efficient high-resolution mitochondria-targeting ratiometric fluorescent probe for hypochlorous acid detection has been designed, synthesized and characterized. It is easily synthesized by the condensation reaction (CC) of a 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl) quinazolin-4(3H)-one fluorophore and a cyanine group (mitochondria-targeting), which made the whole molecular a large Stokes shift (210nm) and the two well-resolved emission peaks separated by 140nm.

An efficient ratiometric fluorescent probe for tracking dynamic changes in lysosomal pH.

Lysosomes are acidic organelles (approximately pH 4.5-5.5) and tracking the changes in lysosomal pH is of great biological importance.

Localizable and photoactivatable fluorophore for spatiotemporal two-photon bioimaging.

Photoactivatable probe-based fluorescent imaging has become an efficient and attractive technique for spatiotemporal microscopic studies of biological events. However, almost all previously reported photoactivatable organic probes have been based on hydrosoluble precursors, which have produced water-soluble active fluorophores able to readily diffuse away from the photocleavage site, thereby dramatically reducing spatial resolution. Hydroxyphenylquinazolinone (HPQ), a small organic dye known for its classic luminescence mechanism through excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT), shows strong light emission in the solid state, but no emission in solution.

A rhodamine-appended water-soluble conjugated polymer: an efficient ratiometric fluorescence sensing platform for intracellular metal-ion probing.

Thewater-soluble CP was conjugatedwith a rhodamine spirolactam for the first time to develop a new FRET-based ratiometric fluorescence sensing platform(CP 1) for intracellular metal-ion probing. CP 1 exhibits excellent water-solubility with twowell-resolved emission peaks, which benefit ratiometric intracellular imaging applications.

High-sensitivity naphthalene-based two-photon fluorescent probe suitable for direct bioimaging of H2S in living cells.

H2S is the third endogenously generated gaseous signaling compound and has also been known to involve a variety of physiological processes. To better understand its physiological and pathological functions, efficient methods for monitoring of H2S in living systems are desired. Although quite a few one photon fluorescence probes have been reported for H2S, two-photon (TP) probes are more favorable for intracellular imaging.

Photon-manipulated drug release from a mesoporous nanocontainer controlled by azobenzene-modified nucleic acid.

Herein a photon-manipulated mesoporous release system was constructed based on azobenzene-modified nucleic acids. In this system, the azobenzene-incorporated DNA double strands were immobilized at the pore mouth of mesoporous silica nanoparticles. The photoisomerization of azobenzene induced dehybridization/hybridization switch of complementary DNA, causing uncapping/capping of pore gates of mesoporous silica.

A nanoscale DNA-Au dendrimer as a signal amplifier for the universal design of functional DNA-based SERS biosensors.

The use of a nanoscale DNA-Au dendrimer as a signal amplifier was proposed for the universal design of functional DNA-based ultra-sensitive SERS biosensors. This novel design combines the high specificity of functional DNA with the high sensitivity of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy, resulting in sensitivity superior to that of previously reported sensors.