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Mercury, as a global toxic pollutant, is easy to be accumulated in aquatic products and poses a great threat to human health. In this work, we proposed a mix-to-read, label-free, and robust assay for detecting mercury pollution in aquatic products by engineering a ratiometric-enhanced G-quadruplex probe. The transformation from the G-quadruplex to a hairpin-like structure allows us to confer a ratiometric and leveraged response to Hg2+, amplifying the signal-to-background ratio for Hg2+ detection. Hg2+ response was further improved by screening parallel- and antiparallel-, single-, and multiple-stranded G-quadruplex structures. Compared to the common aptamer probes, the ratiometric-enhanced G-quadruplex probe increased the sensitivity for Hg2+ detection by 4.7 times. This proposed sensing system allowed a simple and one-tube homogenous detection of Hg2+ at room temperature using a single unlabeled DNA sequence. Its application for Hg2+ detection in fish and shrimp conferred satisfactory recovery rates ranging from 98.5 to 105.9%. The label-free and mix-to-read assay is promising for the onsite detection of mercury pollution and facilitating food safety of aquatic products.We present a computational study of polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities of organic molecules in aqueous solutions, focusing on solute-water interactions and the way they affect a molecule's linear and non-linear electric response properties. We employ a polarizable quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) computational model that treats the solute at the QM level while the solvent is treated classically using a force field that includes polarizable charges and dipoles, which dynamically respond to the solute's quantum-mechanical electron density. Quantum confinement effects are also treated by means of a recently implemented method that endows solvent molecules with a parametric electron density, which exerts Pauli repulsion forces upon the solute. By applying the method to a set of aromatic molecules in solution we show that, for both polarizabilities and first hyperpolarizabilities, observed solution values are the result of a delicate balance between electrostatics, hydrogen-bonding, and non-electrostatic solute solvent interactions.Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a nonreceptor intracellular tyrosine kinase that plays an essential role in cancer cell adhesion, survival, proliferation, and migration through both its enzymatic activities and scaffolding functions. Overexpression of FAK has been found in many human cancer cells from different origins, which promotes tumor progression and influences clinical outcomes in different classes of human tumors. Therefore, FAK has been considered as a promising target for small molecule anticancer drug development. Many FAK inhibitors targeting different domains of FAK with various mechanisms of functions have been reported, including kinase domain inhibitors, FERM domain inhibitors, and FAT domain inhibitors. In addition, FAK-targeting PROTACs, which can induce the degradation of FAK, have also been developed. In this Perspective, we summarized the progress in the development of small molecular FAK inhibitors and proposed the perspectives for the future development of agents targeting FAK.Individual interactions between glycans and their receptors are usually weak, although these weak interactions can combine to realize a strong interaction (multivalency). Such multivalency plays a crucial role in the recognition of host cells by pathogens. Glycodendrimers are useful materials for the reconstruction of this multivalent interaction. BTK inhibitor However, the introduction of a large number of glycans to a dendrimer core is fraught with difficulties. We herein synthesized antipathogenic glycodendrimers using the self-activating click chemistry (SACC) method developed by our group. The excellent reactivity of SACC enabled the efficient preparation of sialyl glycan and Gb3 glycan dendrimers, which exhibited strong avidity toward hemagglutinin on influenza virus and Shiga toxin B subunit produced by Escherichia coli, respectively. We demonstrated the usefulness of SACC-based glycodendrimers as antipathogenic compounds.A magnetic field is generally considered to be incompatible with superconductivity as it tends to spin-polarize electrons and breaks apart the opposite-spin singlet superconducting Cooper pairs. Here, an experimental phenomenon is observed that an intriguing reemergent superconductivity evolves from a conventional superconductivity undergoing a hump-like intermediate phase with a finite electric resistance in the van der Waals heterointerface of layered NbSe2 and CrCl3 flakes. This phenomenon merely occurred when the applied magnetic field is parallel to the sample plane and perpendicular to the electric current direction as compared to the reference sample of a NbSe2 thin flake. The strong anisotropy of the reemergent superconducting phase is pointed to the nature of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state driven by the strong interfacial spin-orbit coupling between NbSe2 and CrCl3 layers. The theoretical picture of FFLO state nodes induced by Josephson vortices collectively pinning is presented for well understanding the experimental observation of the reemergent superconductivity. This finding sheds light on an opportunity to search for the exotic FFLO state in the van der Waals heterostructures with strong interfacial spin-orbit coupling.With the superiority of laser-level intensity, narrow spectral line width, and broad-angular emission, random lasers (RLs) have drawn considerable research interests for their potential to carry out a variety of applications. In this work, the applications associated with optical-encoded technologies, including security printing, military friend or foe identification (FFI), and anticounterfeiting of documents are highlighted, and the concept of a transient RL "smart ink" has been proposed. The proof-of-concept was demonstrated as invisible signatures, which encoded the messages through the spectral difference of spontaneous emission and RL under specified conditions. Next, the possibility of encoding the data with multibit signals was further confirmed by exploiting the threshold tunability of RLs. Moreover, the transient characteristic of this smart ink and its capability to be attached on freeform surfaces of different materials were also shown. With the advantages of a facile manufacturing process and multiple purposes, it is expected that this ink can soon be carried out in a variety of practical utilities.
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