Background: () is a widespread, zoonotic protozoan intracellular parasite with a complex life cycle, which can cause toxoplasmosis, a potentially serious disease. During the invasion process, proteins first bind to the relevant host cell receptors, such as glycosaminoglycan molecule (GAG-binding motif), which is one of the main receptors for parasites or virus to infect host cells. However, research on TGME49_216510 ( Trx21), a protein from , is limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeroxymonosulfate (PMS) oxidation reactions have been extensively studied recently. Due to the high material cost and low catalytic capability, PMS oxidation technology cannot be effectively applied in an industrial water treatment process. In this work, we developed a modification strategy based on enhancing the neglected electron tunneling effect to optimize the intrinsic electron transport process of the catalyst.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: is a protozoan parasite that causes the most severe form of malaria in humans worldwide, which is predominantly found in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is responsible for the majority of malaria-related deaths. helical interspersed subtelomeric (PHIST) proteins are a family of proteins, with a conserved PHIST domain, which are typically located at the subtelomeric regions of the chromosomes and play crucial roles in the interaction between the parasite and its human host, such as cytoadherence, immune evasion, and host cell remodeling. However, the specific utilization of synonymous codons by PHIST proteins in is still unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Scutellaria-coptis herb couple (SC) is a classic herbal pair used in many Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formulations in the treatment of endocrine and metabolic deseases. Diabetes mellitus and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are both endocrine and metabolic diseases. Previous studies have shown that SC has anti-diabetic effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhite-light emission (WLE) materials based on organic-inorganic hybrid lead halides have drawn considerable attention because of their applications in light-emission equipment. Despite considerable efforts, there is still a lack of two-dimensional (2D) lead-chlorine white-light emitting halides with high photoluminescence quantum efficiency (PLQE). Herein, we report the preparation of a new 2D layered hybrid halide, [DTHPE]PbCl, which exhibits bright wide-band WLE, a high PLQE of 8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn the basis of the intrinsic characteristics of the layered materials, here we report a universal principle for the production of intact monolayers via layer-by-layer exfoliation from their bulk via positive charge doping. At experimental accessible densities () of ∼10 cm, various multilayer crystals, including graphite, hexagonal boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides, MXenes, and black phosphorus, can be exfoliated into the corresponding monolayers through density functional theory stimulations. The carrier critical thresholds for exfoliating are found to be nearly independent of thickness but dependent on surface size.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHybrid organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites (HOIPs) possess significant photoelectric characteristics for solar energy conversion, but the presence of lead causes issues for eco-friendly applications. Halide double perovskites represent a green option for application in the optoelectronic field, especially X-ray detection systems. Despite the great efforts, the exploration of large-size lead-free iodide-based hybrid double perovskite single crystals for X-ray detection has been unsuccessful.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStrain, as an economic yet controllable approach for structural modulation, frequently plays a vital role in the preparation and performance optimization of two-dimensional nanomaterials (TNMs). Here, utilizing first-principles simulations, the analysis of energetics shows that the biaxial stretching and compressing could facilitate the vertical separation and horizontal sliding in graphene (Gr/Gr), hexagonal boron nitride (-BN/-BN), and molybdenum disulfide (MoS/MoS) bilayers. The quantification of electron redistribution between layers confirmed that the shifts of interlayer charge density (ρ) and its relative values () are responsible for the vertical separation and horizontal sliding facilitated by biaxial strain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis bibliometric-based review analyses the trends in 1010 published articles (1990 to mid-2018) on the high-value application of , and illustrates the evolution and latest tendencies at a global level by the number of publications and their distribution, issuing institutions and countries or regions, the sources and research direction, as well as the core-author and keywords. The results demonstrated that there is a burst in terms of the number of articles, and China, USA, Mexico, and Japan are the dominant countries in this area. The most relevant journals with this subject are Bioresource Technology and Hydrobiology, and the research mainly focuses on marine and freshwater biology, biotechnology and applied microbiology, energy and fuels, food science and technology, and environmental sciences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAtomic-scale friction theory, and even superlubricity, is inseparable from charge redistribution, but lacks a bridge to establish the potential link between them. Here, we first report a quantized charge density fluctuation surface (CDFS) by assembling silicene/graphene and germanene/graphene heterostructures and their corresponding homogeneous bilayers for DFT calculations. By observing the PES morphology, we see that it exhibits a decrease in friction by more than two orders of magnitude.
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