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Purpose To investigate the underlying mechanisms for how the mouse Cx50-R205G point mutation, a homologue of the human Cx50-R198W mutation that is linked to cataract-microcornea syndrome, affects proper lens growth and fiber cell differentiation to lead to severe lens phenotypes. Methods EdU labeling, immunostaining, confocal imaging analysis, and primary lens epithelial cell culture were performed to characterize the lens epithelial cell (LEC) proliferation and fiber cell differentiation in wild-type and Cx50-R205G mutant lenses in vivo and in vitro. Results The Cx50-R205G mutation severely disrupts the lens size and transparency. Heterozygous and homozygous Cx50-R205G mutant and Cx50 knockout lenses all show decreased central epithelium proliferation while only the homozygous Cx50-R205G mutant lenses display obviously decreased proliferating LECs in the germinative zone of neonatal lenses. Cultured Cx50-R205G lens epithelial cells reveal predominantly reduced Cx50 gap junction staining but no change of the endoplasmic reticulum stress marker BiP. The heterozygous Cx50-R205G lens fibers show moderately disrupted Cx50 and Cx46 gap junctions while the homozygous Cx50-R205G lens fibers have drastically reduced Cx50 and Cx46 gap junctions with severely altered fiber cell shape in vivo. Conclusions The Cx50-R205G mutation inhibits both central and equatorial lens epithelial cell proliferation to cause small lenses. This mutation also disrupts the assembly and functions of both Cx50 and Cx46 gap junctions in lens fibers to alter fiber cell differentiation and shape to lead to severe lens phenotypes.Propargylamines have gained importance in the area of anticancer research. We synthesized 1-substituted propargylic tertiary amines using the A3-coupling as the key step. Both, solution and solid-phase protocols, were used to provide a library of 1-substituted propargylic tertiary amines with interesting structural diversity. The triple negative breast cancer subtype is the most aggressive and it lacks effective therapeutic options, while pancreatic cancer is one of the neoplasms with worse prognosis and limited therapeutic possibilities. The development of tumor-selective drugs has always been a major challenge in cancer treatment. From our library, two propargylamines displayed a high degree of cytotoxic selectivity. These levels of selectivity give a very interesting perspective for further development of 1-substituted propargylic tertiary amines as new potential chemotherapeutic antitumor agents.Developing low-cost electrocatalysts with outstanding electrochemical performance for water splitting over a wide pH range is urgently desired to meet the practical needs in different areas. Herein, a highly efficient hierarchical flower-like CoS2@MoS2 core-shell nanostructured electrocatalyst is fabricated by a two-step strategy, in which MoS2 nanosheets with a layered structure are grown on the CoS2 core supported on carbon paper (CP) and used as hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts working in the whole pH range (0-14). Remarkably, benefiting from the interface-engineering in this 3D core-shell structure of the electrocatalyst, the optimum CoS2@MoS2/CP catalyst exhibits outstanding HER activity over a wide range of pH values and an overpotential of 69 mV in acidic solution, 145 mV in neutral solution and 82 mV in alkaline solution, respectively, to afford the standard current density of 10 mA cm-2. Furthermore, it demonstrates superior stability under different pH conditions for at least 48 h. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are performed to gain further insight into the effect of CoS2@MoS2 interfaces, revealing that the strong interfacial interaction between CoS2 and MoS2 dramatically reduces the Gibbs free energy of hydrogen adsorption and the energy barrier for water dissociation, thus enhancing the electrochemical HER activity in the whole pH range (0-14).Lithium metal anodes (LMAs) have been suffering from challenging problems of solid electrolyte interface (SEI) formation and lithium morphological instability (LMI), which lead to a poor cycling life and notorious safety concerns. Herein, we prepared a 3D composite anode (Li@NFZO) by heat treatment and reactive wetting where nickel foam serves as the framework and LiZn/Li fills in the holes. Interestingly, it is found that such a nickel foam + LiZn combination can largely reinforce the electrode/electrolyte interface stability and thus slows down the electrolyte consumption. Furthermore, uniformly distributed and lithiophilic LiZn contributes to the homogenous Li plating so that dendrites can be geometrically disturbed. Brequinar molecular weight Therefore, stable cycling for 185 h at 5 mA h cm-2/5 mA cm-2 in symmetrical cells, 2.8× bare Li, was achieved. The cycling life of the LiFePO4//Li@NFZO full-cell at ≈6.6 g A h-1 electrolyte addition was prolonged to 120 cycles (80% capacity retention), compared to 66 cycles for the LiFePO4//Li full-cell.A straightforward strategy was developed for the arylation and olefination at the C5-position of the N-(alkyl)pyrimidin-2-amine core with readily available aryl halides and alkenes, respectively. This approach was highly regioselective, and the transformation was achieved based on two different (Pd(ii)/Pd(iv)) and (Pd(0)/Pd(ii)) catalytic cycles.N-Heterocyclic Thiones (NHT) proved to be efficient ligands for the stabilization of small platinum nanoparticles (1.3-1.7 nm), synthesized by decomposition of [Pt(dba)2], under a H2 atmosphere, in the presence of variable sub-stoichiometric amounts of the NHT. Full characterization by means of TEM, HR-TEM, NMR, ICP, TGA and XPS have been carried out, providing information about the nature of the metal nanoparticles and the interaction of the NHT ligands to the metal surface. Importantly, DFT calculations indicate that some NHT ligands interact with the metal through the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C double bond of the imidazole fragment in addition to the sulfur atom, thus providing additional stabilization to the nanoparticles. According to XPS, TGA and ICP techniques, the surface coverage by the ligand increases by decreasing the size of the substituents on the nitrogen atom. The platinum nanoparticles have been used as catalyst in the hydroboration of alkynes. The most active system is that with a less covered surface area lacking an interaction of the ligand by means of the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C double bond.
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