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The model of lipoxygenase-catalyzed linoleic acid (LA) oxidation was selected as representative of a lipid peroxidation system to investigate the effects of oxidative modification on soybean protein isolate (SPI) gel properties and in vitro gastric digestion. Fluorescence recovery after the photobleaching (FRAP) technique was applied to evaluate pepsin diffusion in the gel. The results showed that oxidative modification increased the gel hardness as well as brought about a compact and three-dimensional network structure, which consequently decreased the water mobility as manifest by lowering the relaxation time of T2b and T21 from 0.55 and 3.22 ms for the control to 0.32 and 2.42 ms for 7LA+LOX (addition of 7 mL of LA and LOX), respectively. It was interesting to note that pepsin diffusion was significant correlated (p less then 0.05) with T2b and DH (degree of hydrolysis), indicating that water mobility might be a factor related to FITC-pepsin diffusion, which would ultimately influence the gel gastric digestion. Compared with native SPI, moderate oxidation can improve the digestibility of SPI gel by the summed effects of pepsin diffusion limitation, microstructure variation, and hydrolysis degree.Analysis of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene expression in an insecticide-resistant strain of Cydia pomonella using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction is a key step toward more mechanism studies that require suitable reference genes with stable expression. Here, nine commonly used reference genes were selected, and their expression stabilities were analyzed. Results showed that EF-1α was the most stable reference gene in all of the experimental sets. The combinations of EF-1α and 18S, EF-1α and RPL12, and EF-1α and GAPDH were sufficient for normalization of gene expression analysis accurately in developmental stages, tissues, and larvae exposed to sublethal dose of λ-cyhalothrin, respectively. Additionally, the suitability of particular reference genes was verified by analyzing the spatiotemporal and insecticide-induced expression profiles of CpGSTe3, CpGSTd3, and CpGSTd4, which were overexpressed in a λ-cyhalothrin-resistant population from northeast China. These genes were used to confer the practicability of reference genes chosen in this study.An efficient synthesis of indolizine derivatives from propargylic pyridines and aroyl chlorides was developed. The 5-endo-dig cyclization was initiated by the in situ formed acylpalladium species from the facile oxidative addition of aroyl chloride to Pd(0) complex. This transformation successfully occurred in the presence of an N-nucleophilic moiety and acid chlorides, a good electrophilic partner, affording highly functionalized indolizines in good-to-excellent yields.The emergence of life on the prebiotic Earth must have involved the formation of polypeptides, yet the polymerization of amino acids is thermodynamically unfavorable under biologically relevant aqueous conditions because amino acids are zwitterions in solution and because of the production of a water molecule through a condensation reaction. Many mechanisms for overcoming this thermodynamic unfavorability have been proposed, but the role of gas phase water clusters has not been investigated. We present the thermodynamics of the water-mediated gas phase dimerization reaction of glycine as a model for the atmospheric polymerization of amino acids prior to the emergence of biological machinery. We hypothesize that atmospheric aerosols may have played a major role in the prebiotic formation of peptide bonds by providing the thermodynamic driving force to facilitate increasingly stable linear oligopeptides. In addition, we hypothesize that small aerosols orient amino acids on their surfaces, thus providing the correct molecular orientations to funnel the reaction pathways of peptides through transition states that lead eventually to polypeptide products. Using density functional theory and a thorough configurational sampling technique, we show that the thermodynamic spontaneity of the linear dimerization of glycine in the gas phase can be driven by the addition of individual water molecules.Bisphenol S (BPS), used as a bisphenol A substitute, has been detected in various environments. However, the safety of BPS is still unclear. Here, zebrafish embryos were exposed to BPS (0, 1, 10, and 100 μg/L) for 24, 48, 72, 96 h, and 15 days. BPS induced ectopic sprouting of budding blood vessels in embryos, but the blood flow velocity within these lesions was unchanged at 48 h. At 72 h postfertilization (hpf), by observing the subintestinal venous plexus responsible for yolk absorption, we found that VEGFR2 transduced an angiogenic signal and that the subsequent reduction in blood flow velocity inhibited yolk absorption. At 96 hpf, yolk consumption was still delayed because of the disturbed transportation route, resulting in transient extensive lipid retention in the blood vessels. dBET6 After feeding, obvious atherogenic lipids were discovered in the blood vessels, especially in bends, bifurcations, and stenoses. This dynamic visualization of the pathogenesis demonstrates a plausible mechanistic link between BPS exposure-induced embryonic vessel overgrowth and an increased atherosclerosis risk.Denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation (DAMO) coupled to anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is a promising technology for complete nitrogen removal with economic and environmental benefit. In this work, a model framework integrating DAMO and anammox process was constructed based on suspended-growth systems. The proposed model was calibrated and validated using experimental data from a sequencing batch reactor and a membrane aerated membrane bioreactor (MAMBR). The model managed to describe removal rates of ammonium (NH4+), nitrite (NO2-), and total nitrogen, as well as biomass changes of DAMO archaea, DAMO bacteria, and anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AnAOB) in both reactors. The estimated parameter values revealed that DAMO archaea possessed properties of faster growth and higher biomass yield in suspended-growth systems compared to those in attached-growth systems (e.g., biofilm). Model simulation demonstrated that solid retention time (SRT) was effective in washing out DAMO bacteria, but retaining DAMO archaea and AnAOB in the MAMBR.
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