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Cell-free expression systems have drawn increasing attention as a tool to achieve complex biological functions outside of the cell. Several applications of the technology involve the delivery of functionality to challenging environments, such as field-forward diagnostics or point-of-need manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. To achieve these goals, cell-free reaction components are preserved using encapsulation or lyophilization methods, both of which often involve an embedding of components in porous matrices like paper or hydrogels. Previous work has shown a range of impacts of porous materials on cell-free expression reactions. Here, we explored a panel of 32 paperlike materials and 5 hydrogel materials for the impact on reaction performance. The screen included a tolerance to lyophilization for reaction systems based on both cell lysates and purified expression components. For paperlike materials, we found that (1) materials based on synthetic polymers were mostly incompatible with cell-free expression, (2) ld enhance efforts to develop field-forward applications of cell-free expression systems.Though luminol is one of the most prominent and extensively studied luminophores in ECL studies, only H2O2 has been widely used as a co-reactant. This limits the variety of applications because of the short-time radical stability and low quantum efficiency. In the present work, we identified dicyclohexylamine (DCHA) as a new and highly efficient anodic co-reactant in ECL for the luminol molecule. The electrochemical and ECL behavior of the luminol/DCHA system was studied on a simple bare GCE surface, which results in two anodic ECL peaks at the potential region of +0.38 and +0.94 V vs Ag/AgCl. The evidence of (DCHA•+) and O2•- generated in the system was detected via flat-cell electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy experiments at ∼20 °C. Using the bimodal ECL system, the highly sensitive detection of luminol was achieved with the detection limit down to 1.5 pM. Further, a homebuilt electrochemiluminescent detector coupled with a flow injection analysis (ECL-FIA) system was adopted to detect the DCHA contaminant in harvested honey, which achieved higher detection and sensitivity under the optimized experimental conditions. DCHA was detected in the range of 10 nM to 100 μM with the detection limit of 2 nM (S/N = 3). The present findings of new luminol/DCHA ECL signals produced a strong ECL emission, which leads to a greater potential to meet the fast-developing analytical application of a luminol-based ECL system.Mitochondrial dysfunction and elevated ROS generation are predominant contributors of neuronal death that is responsible for the diabetes-related cognitive impairments. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that long noncoding RNA-MEG3 can serve as an important regulator in the pathogenesis of diabetes. However, the underlying mechanisms remain to be further clarified. Here, it was observed that MEG3 was significantly down-regulated in STZ (streptozotocin)-induced diabetic rats. MEG3 overexpression noticeably improved diabetes-induced cognitive dysfunctions, accompanied by the abatement of Rac1 activation and ROS production, as well as the inhibition of mitochondria-associated apoptosis. Furthermore, either MEG3 overexpression or Rac1 inhibition promoted FUNDC1 dephosphorylation and suppressed oxidative stress and neuro-inflammation. Similarly, in vitro studies confirmed that hyperglycemia also down-regulated MEG3 expression in PC12 cells. MEG3 reintroduction protected PC12 cells against hyperglycemia-triggered phagy.Glucagon-like peptide-1 GLP-1 is a gut-derived peptide secreted from pancreatic β-cells that reduces blood glucose levels and body weight; however, native GLP-1 (GLP-1(7-36)-NH2 and GLP-1(7-37)) have short in vivo circulation half-lives (∼2 min) due to proteolytic degradation and rapid renal clearance due to its low molecular weight (MW; 3297.7 Da). This study aimed to improve the proteolytic stability and delivery properties of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) through modifications that form nanostructures. CNO agonist concentration For this purpose, N- (NtG) and C-terminal (CtG), and Lys26 side chain (K26G) alkyne-modified GLP-1 analogues were conjugated to an azide-modified lipidic peptide (L) to give N-L, C-L, and K-26-L, respectively; or CtG was conjugated with a fibrilizing self-assembling peptide (SAP) (AEAEAKAK)3 to yield C-S, using copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). N-L demonstrated the best serum stability (t1/2 > 48 h) compared to K-26-L (44 h), C-L (20 h), C-S (27 h), and the parental GLP-1(7-36;A8G)-NH2 (A8G) (19 h) peptides. Each conjugate demonstrated subnanomolar hGLP-1RA potency, and none demonstrated toxicity toward PC-3 cells at concentrations up to 1 μM. Each analogue was observed by transmission electron microscopy to form fibrils in solution. K-26-L demonstrated among the best human serum stability (t1/2 = 44 h) and similar hGLP-1RA potency (EC50 48 pM) to C-S. In conclusion, this study provided an alternative to lipid modification, i.e., fibrillizing peptides, that could improve pharmacokinetic parameters of GLP-1.Hydrovoltaic devices are proposed as an alternative way to directly generate electricity due to the ubiquity of water and its interaction with specific porous structures. At present, the output power density of the reported device is limited by its low current density arising from the low surface charge density and inferior charge transport capability of the active materials. In this work, an asymmetric structure consisting of positively charged conductive polyaniline (PANI) and negatively charged Ti3C2TX MXene is proposed to build a hydrovoltaic device to achieve high conductivity and surface charge density simultaneously. An extra polyvinyl alcohol layer is utilized between PANI and MXene to reserve the asymmetric structure and maintain a constant voltage output. As a result, a peak current density of 1.8 mA/cm2 is achieved, which is 18 times higher than the previous peak current density of the device with an inert electrode. Our work of incorporating an asymmetric structure provides an alternative way to target high-efficiency hydrovoltaic devices with a large current density.
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