Prime-boost immunization with inactivated human adenovirus type 55 combined with an adjuvant enhances neutralizing antibody responses in mice.

Background: Human adenovirus type 55 (hAd55) infection can lead to acute respiratory diseases that often present with severe symptoms. Despite its persistent prevalence in military camps and communities, there are no commercially available vaccines or vaccine candidates undergoing clinical evaluation; therefore, there is an urgent need to address this. In this study, we evaluated the immunogenicity of inactivated hAd55 isolates and investigated the effects of adjuvants and various immunization intervals.

Biocatalysis enables the scalable conversion of biobased furans into various furfurylamines.

Biobased furans have emerged as chemical building blocks for the development of materials because of their diverse scaffolds and as they can be directly prepared from sugars. However, selective, efficient, and cost-effective scalable conversion of biobased furans remains elusive. Here, we report a robust transaminase (TA) from Shimia marina (SMTA) that enables the scalable amination of biobased furanaldehydes with high activity and broad substrate specificity.

Dual-function transaminases with hybrid nanoflower for the production of value-added chemicals from biobased levulinic acid.

The U.S. Department of Energy has listed levulinic acid (LA) as one of the top 12 compounds derived from biomass.

Visible-Light Communication with Lighting: RGB Wavelength Division Multiplexing OLEDs/OPDs Platform.

A multichannel/multicolor visible light communication (VLC) system using entirely organic components, including organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic photodiodes (OPDs), is developed to demonstrate indoor lighting applications where the integration of OLEDs and OPDs has significant potential. To achieve this, tricolor (Red/Green/Blue(R/G/B))-selective OPD arrays for the receiver and tricolor OLED arrays for the emitter are developed. For (R/G/B)-selective OPDs, a Fabry-Pérot electrode to enhance color selectivity and a thick junction structure to effectively accommodate a wide range of driving voltages are introduced.

Heterotrimeric G Protein-Mediated Signaling Is Involved in Stress-Mediated Growth Inhibition in .

Heterotrimeric G protein-mediated signaling plays a vital role in physiological and developmental processes in eukaryotes. On the other hand, because of the absence of a G protein-coupled receptor and self-activating mechanism of the Gα subunit, plants appear to have different regulatory mechanisms, which remain to be elucidated, compared to canonical G protein signaling established in animals. Here we report that heterotrimeric G protein subunits, such as Gα () and Gβ (), regulate plant growth under stress conditions through the analysis of heterotrimeric G protein mutants.

YCl-Substituted CsPbI Perovskite Nanorods for Efficient Red-Light-Emitting Diodes.

Cesium lead iodide (CsPbI) perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) are a promising material for red-light-emitting diodes (LEDs) due to their excellent color purity and high luminous efficiency. However, small-sized CsPbI colloidal NCs, such as nanocubes, used in LEDs suffer from confinement effects, negatively impacting their photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and overall efficiency. Here, we introduced YCl into the CsPbI perovskite, which formed anisotropic, one-dimensional (1D) nanorods.

Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of 2-Pyridones Employing Diaryliodonium Salts at Room Temperature.

A new and mild synthetic approach for the N-arylation of 2-pyridones with diaryliodonium salts has been developed. Most reactions proceed readily at room temperature in the presence of 10 mol % of copper chloride. As a result, a wide range of N-arylpyridine-2-ones were synthesized in yields of 23% to 99%.

Design and synthesis of fluorescent and biotin tagged probes for the study of molecular actions of FAF1 inhibitor.

To study the molecular action of ischemic Fas-mediated cell death inhibitor, we prepared fluorescent-tagged and biotin-tagged probes of the potent inhibitor, KR-33494, of ischemic cell death. We used the molecular modeling technique to find the proper position for attaching those probes with minimum interference in the binding process of probes with Fas-mediated cell death target, FAF1.