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Soft-Tissue Simulators pertaining to Computational Planning regarding Orthognathic Surgical treatment.
Hydrotropes are the small amphiphilic molecules which help in solubilizing hydrophobic entities in an aqueous medium. Recent experimental investigation has provided convincing evidence that adenosine triphosphate (ATP), besides being the energy currency of cell, also can act as a hydrotrope to inhibit the formation of protein condensates. In this work, we have designed computer simulations of prototypical macromolecules in aqueous ATP solution to dissect the molecular mechanism underlying ATP's newly discovered role as a hydrotrope. The simulation demonstrates that ATP can unfold a single chain of hydrophobic macromolecule as well as can disrupt the aggregation process of a hydrophobic assembly. Moreover, the introduction of charges in the macromolecule is found to reinforce ATP's disaggregation effects in a synergistic fashion, a behavior reminiscent of recent experimental observation of pronounced hydrotropic action of ATP in intrinsically disordered proteins. Molecular analysis indicates that this newfound ability of ATP is ingrained in its propensity of preferential binding to the polymer surface, which gets fortified in the presence of charges. The investigation also renders evidence that the key to the ATP's superior hydrotropic role over chemical hydrotropes (sodium xylene sulfonate, NaXS) may lie in its inherent self-aggregation propensity. Overall, via employing a bottom-up approach, the current investigation provides fresh mechanistic insights into the dual solubilizing and denaturing abilities of ATP.Novel peptidic glucagon receptor (GCGR) and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) dual agonists are reported to have increased efficacy over GLP-1R monoagonists for the treatment of diabetes and obesity. We identified a novel Xenopus GLP-1-based dual GLP-1R/GCGR agonist (xGLP/GCG-13) designed with a proper activity ratio favoring the GLP-1R versus the GCGR. However, the clinical utility of xGLP/GCG-13 is limited by its short in vivo half-life. Starting from xGLP/GCG-13, dual Cys mutation was performed, followed by covalent side-chain stapling and serum albumin binder incorporation, resulting in a stabilized secondary structure, enhanced agonist potency at GLP-1R and GCGR, and improved stability. The lead peptide 2c (stapled xGLP/GCG-13 analogue with a palmitic acid albumin binder) exhibits balanced GLP-1R and GCGR activations and potent, long-lasting effects on in vivo glucose control. 2c was further explored pharmacologically in diet-induced obesity and db/db rodent models. Chronic administration of 2c potently induced body weight loss and hypoglycemic effects, improved glucose tolerance, increased energy expenditure, and normalized lipid metabolism and adiposity in relevant animal models. These results indicated that 2c has potential for development as a novel antidiabetic and/or antiobesity drug. Furthermore, we propose that the incorporation of a proper serum protein-binding motif into a di-Cys staple is an effective method for improving the stabilities and bioactivities of peptides. This approach is likely applicable to other therapeutic peptides, such as glucose-dependent insulin-tropic peptide receptor (GIPR) and GLP-1R dual agonists or GLP-1R/GCGR/GIPR triagonists.An enantioselective hydrogenation of 5-alkylidene-2,4-diketoimidazolidines (hydantoins) and 3-alkylidene-2,5-ketopiperazines catalyzed by the Rh/f-spiroPhos complex under mild conditions has been developed, which provides an efficient approach to the highly enantioselective synthesis of chiral hydantoins and 2,5-ketopiperazine derivatives with high enantioselectivities up to 99.9% ee.A copper(II)-catalyzed protocol to construct trans-configured β-lactams and spirocyclic β-lactams from oximes and methyl propiolate has been developed, which features excellent substrate flexibility and diastereoselectivity (up to >991 dr). In situ FT-IR mechanistic experiments support that ketene species might be involved in the formation of β-lactams.The traditional approach for materials discovery has been the domain of experimentalists, where elemental composition and synthesis conditions are often based on a trial-and-error method. Such processes are time-consuming and expensive. To minimize cost and to develop new materials at a faster pace, an alternate approach is to use theory to predict new materials with tailored properties and have experiments validate such predictions. The phenomenal increase in computing power, development of new first-principles methodologies, and a myriad of advanced computer codes in recent years have enabled researchers to predict novel materials that can be verified by later experiments. In this Perspective, we present advances in density functional theory-based methods and computational procedures that have made possible the discoveries of materials with varying size, composition, and dimensionalities. The challenges and opportunities in theory-guided discovery of materials, going forward, are also discussed.We report a new slippage system based on p-tert-butylbenzyl-terminated imidazolium ions and di(ethylene glycol)-containing macrocycles and their use as linking units for the construction of a prototypical molecular "Lock & Lock" box from a resorcinarene-based cavitand "bowl" and a porphyrin "cover". The multivalent structure with four slippage linkers provided the molecular box with high stability, yet the system dissociated into its two components upon application of suitable external stimuli.The generation and characterization of multiple metal-metal (M-M) bonds between early and late transition metals is vital to correlate the nature of multiple M-M bonds with the related reactivity in catalysis, while the examples with multiple M-M bonds have been rarely reported. Herein, we identified that the quadruple bonding interactions were formed in a gas-phase ion IrV+ with a dramatically short Ir-V bond. Oxidation of four CO molecules by IrVO4+ is a highly exothermic process driven by the generation of stable products IrV+ and CO2, and then IrV+ can be oxidized by N2O to regenerate IrVO4+. This finding overturns the general impression that vanadium oxide clusters are unwilling to oxidize multiple CO molecules because of the strong V-O bond and that at most two oxygen atoms can be supplied from a single V-containing cluster in CO oxidation. This study emphasizes the potential importance of heterobimetallic multiple M-M bonds in related heterogeneous catalysis.The wetting property of spherical particles in a hexagonal close-packed (HCP) ordering from extended Gibbs free energy (GFE) and Laplace pressure view points is studied. A formalism is proposed to predict the contact angle (θ) of a droplet on the HCP films and penetration angle (α) of the liquid on the spherical particles. Then, the extended Laplace pressure for the layered HCP ordering is calculated and a correlation between the wetting angle, sign of pressure, and pressure gradient is achieved. Our results show that the sign and the slope of pressure are important criteria for determining the wettability state and it is found that the contact angle is independent of the particle radius, as supported by various experimental reports. The pressure gradient for the HCP films with Young contact angle higher than (lower than) a critical contact angle, 135° (45°), is positive (negative), indicating the superhydrophobicity (superhydrophilicity) state of the surface. To validate the proposed formulation, theoretical calculations are compared with the reported experimental measurements, showing a good agreement.In 2019, Diaz-Urrutia and Ott developed a high-yield method for direct conversion of methane to methanesulfonic acid and proposed a cationic chain reaction mechanism. However, Roytman and Singleton questioned this mechanism, and they favored a free-radical mechanism. In the present paper, we studied both the cationic chain and radical mechanisms and found the radical mechanism is more favorable, since it has a much lower energy barrier. However, the radical mechanism has not considered the effect of ions for the reaction taking place in oleum. Thus, we studied a simple model of a protonated radical mechanism, which further lowers the energy barrier. Although the true mechanism for the CH4 + SO3 reaction could be more complicated in electrolyte solutions, this model should be helpful for the further study of the mechanism of this reaction.This work describes a base-mediated borylsilylation of benzylic ammonium salts to synthesize geminal silylboronates bearing benzylic proton under mild reaction conditions. Deaminative silylation of aryl ammonium salts was also achieved in the presence of LiOtBu. This strategy which is featured with high efficiency, mild reaction conditions, and good functional group tolerance provides efficient routes for late-stage functionalization of amines.We investigate the adhesive interaction energy (ΔEint) between an epoxy resin and a silica surface using pair interaction energy decomposition analysis (PIEDA), which decomposes ΔEint into four components electrostatic (ΔEes), exchange repulsion (ΔEex), charge-transfer (ΔEct), and dispersion (ΔEdisp) energies based on quantum chemistry. Our previous study with PIEDA showed that synergistic effects of ΔEes and ΔEdisp are critical at the interface between an epoxy resin fragment and a hydrophilic surface. The present study is designed to show in detail that the synergistic effects are significant at the interface between an epoxy layer model consisting of 20 epoxy monomers and a hydrophilic silica surface. The ratio of the dispersion energies to the total interaction energies of the layer model shows good agreement with experimental values, that is, the dispersion ratio of the work of adhesion (Wad). The 20 epoxy molecules in the layer model are investigated individually to closely correlate the four decomposed energies with their structural features. Our energy-decomposition analyses show that H-bonding and OH-π interactions play important roles at the interface between an epoxy resin and a silica surface. PIEDA calculations for the epoxy layer model also show that the region 3.6 Å from the silica surface accounts for more than 99% of the total interaction energies.This work presents the first quantitative analysis of time-resolved laser-induced incandescence (TiRe-LII) measurements on aerosolized nickel nanoparticles in several gases and over a range of laser fluences. A measurement model composed of spectroscopic and heat transfer submodels is used to recover the particle size distribution parameters and the thermal accommodation coefficient (TAC). Dacinostat cell line A qualitative analysis of the results reveals evidence of nonincandescent laser-induced emission temporally aligned with the laser pulse, and more laser energy is absorbed than can be accounted for from the modeled spectral absorption cross section of the nanoparticles. The TiRe-LII inferred particle size parameters were generally consistent with values found from ex situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. The TACs for nickel nanoparticles in polyatomic gases were larger than those in monoatomic gases, which may indicate chemisorption.Heteroprotein complex coacervate (HPCC) is a liquid-like protein concentrate produced by liquid-liquid phase separation. We revealed the protein dynamic exchange and thermodynamic mechanism of β-conglycinin/lysozyme coacervate, and clarified the effect of HPCC on protein structure and activity. β-conglycinin and lysozyme assembled into coacervate at pH 5.75-6.5 and assembled into amorphous precipitates at higher pH. As the pH dropped from 8 to 6, the number of binding sites of the complex decreased in half, and the desolvation degree corresponding to the entropy gain was greatly reduced, conducing to the formation of coacervates rather than precipitates. The coacervates achieved the unique dynamic exchange by exchanging proteins with the diluted phase, making the uniform distribution of proteins in coacervates. The lysozyme activity was completely retained in β-conglycinin/lysozyme coacervates. These results proved that β-conglycinin-based heteroprotein complex coacervate is a feasible method to encapsulate and enrich active proteins in a purely aqueous environment.
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