Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are an effective treatment for clear cell sarcoma (CCS), a rare melanocytic sarcoma with a poor prognosis, their efficacies are still limited. Therefore, a novel therapeutic strategy is required to improve the efficacy of ICIs. We previously reported that histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors increased melanoma immunogenicity through the SOX10-IRF1 pathway and may improve the efficacy of ICIs for melanoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSolid-state platforms based on electronuclear spin systems are attractive candidates for rotation sensing due to their excellent sensitivity, stability, and compact size, compatible with industrial applications. Conventional spin-based gyroscopes measure the accumulated phase of a nuclear spin superposition state to extract the rotation rate and thus suffer from spin dephasing. Here, we propose a gyroscope protocol based on a two-spin system that includes a spin intrinsically tied to the host material, while the other spin is isolated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA novel category of asymmetric boron chromophores with the attachment of two BF moieties denoted as BOPAM has been successfully synthesized via a one-pot three-step reaction starting from N-phenylbenzothioamide. This synthetic route results in the production of [a] and [b]benzo-fused BOPAMs along with post-functionalization of the [a]benzo-fused BOPAMs. The photophysical properties of these compounds have been systematically investigated through steady-state absorption and fluorescence emission measurements in solvents at both ambient and cryogenic temperatures, as well as in the solid state.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitrite contamination and the spread of pathogens can seriously degrade water quality. To simultaneously control these factors, an innovative approach of fabricating a remediation agent that contained denitrifying bacteria and TiO-AgNPs co-immobilized on floating expanded clay (EC) was proposed in this study. The EC was fabricated from a mixture of clay and rice husk through pyrolysis at a high temperature of 1200 °C, followed by a rapid cooling step to create a porous structure for the material.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe mol-ecular and crystal structure of ()-2-[(benzo[]thia-zol-2-yl-imino)-meth-yl]-5-(di-ethyl-amino)-phenol (CHNOS, ) and its unexpected reaction product with tri-phenyl-borane, 2,2-diphenyl-1,3-dioxa-2-borata-1,2-di-hydro-naphthalene [systematic name: ,-diethyl-2,2-diphenyl-2-1,3λ,2λ-ben-zodioxaborinin-7-amine, CHBNO, ()] are described. For , the hydroxyl group is involved in an intra-molecular hydrogen bond with the imino nitro-gen atom and the C=N bond displays an configuration. The crystal packing is characterized by layers of inversion dimers parallel to the (10) plane and chains of mol-ecule in the -axis direction formed through C-H⋯O inter-actions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe roots of are recognized as a rich source of protoberberine and aporphine alkaloids, but the non-alkaloidal metabolites in this plant are underexplored. The present study investigated the chemical composition of the plant roots using untargeted metabolomics-based molecular networking and MS2LDA motif annotation, revealing the presence of a characteristic fragment motif related to several sinapoyl-functionalized metabolites. Guided by the targeted motif, two new sinapic acid-ecdysteroid hybrids, named 3--sinapoyl makisterone A () and 2--sinapoyl makisterone A (), were isolated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe global rise of populism and concomitant polarizations across disenfranchised and marginalized groups has been magnified by so-called echo chambers, and a major public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to fuel these intergroup tensions. Media institutions disseminating information on ways to prevent the propagation of the virus have reactivated a specific discursive phenomenon previously observed in many epidemics: the construction of a defiled 'Other'. With anthropological lenses, discourse on defilement is an interesting path to understand the continuous emergence of pseudo-scientific forms of racism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Specialized early intervention for psychosis can reduce the duration of untreated psychosis and improve clinical and functional outcomes. However, poor adherence to treatment is frequent. The literature on community treatment orders (CTOs) use in first-episode psychosis (FEP) as a means to improve treatment adherence is limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the aid of a feature-based molecular networking strategy, five undescribed C and C symmetric chromene dimers, namely, melptelchromenes A-E, were isolated from the leaves of Melicope pteleifolia. Four asymmetric dimers were found to be racemates and were resolved by chiral phase HPLC analyses. Their structures, including absolute configurations, were elucidated by HRMS, NMR spectroscopy, and quantum mechanical calculations of ECD spectra and NMR chemical shifts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently one step mutation matrices were introduced to model the impact of substitutions on arbitrary branches of a phylogenetic tree on an alignment site. This concept works nicely for the four-state nucleotide alphabet and provides an efficient procedure conjectured to compute the minimal number of substitutions needed to transform one alignment site into another. The present paper delivers a proof of the validity of this algorithm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong the criteria to evaluate the performance of a phylogenetic method, robustness to model violation is of particular practical importance as complete a priori knowledge of evolutionary processes is typically unavailable. For studies of robustness in phylogenetic inference, a utility to add well-defined model violations to the simulated data would be helpful. We therefore introduce ImOSM, a tool to imbed intermittent evolution as model violation into an alignment.
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