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Reactions templated by nucleic acids are currently at the heart of applications in biosensing and drug release. The number of chemical reactions selectively occurring only in the presence of the template, in aqueous solutions, and at room temperature and able to release a chemical moiety is still very limited. Here, we report the use of the p-nitrophenyl carbonate (NPC) as a new reactive moiety for DNA templated reactions releasing a colored reporter by reaction with a simple amine. The easily synthesized p-nitrophenyl carbonate was integrated in an oligonucleotide and showed a very good stability as well as a high reactivity toward amines, without the need for any supplementary reagent, quantitatively releasing the red p-nitrophenolate with a half-life of about 1 h.A new Re bipyridine-type complex, namely, fac-Re(pmbpy)(CO)3Cl (pmbpy = 4-phenyl-6-(2-hydroxy-phenyl)-2,2'-bipyridine), 1, carrying a single OH moiety as local proton source, has been synthesized, and its electrochemical behavior under Ar and under CO2 has been characterized. Two isomers of 1, namely, 1-cis characterized by the proximity of Cl to OH and 1-trans, are identified. The interconversion between 1-cis and 1-trans is clarified by DFT calculations, which reveal two transition states. The energetically lower pathway displays a non-negligible barrier of 75.5 kJ mol-1. The 1e- electrochemical reduction of 1 affords the neutral intermediate 1-OPh, formally derived by reductive deprotonation and loss of Cl- from 1. 1-OPh, which exhibits an entropically favored intramolecular Re-O bond, has been isolated and characterized. The detailed electrochemical mechanism is demonstrated by combined chemical reactivity, spectroelectrochemistry, spectroscopic (IR and NMR), and computational (DFT) approaches. Comparison with previous Re and Mn derivatives carrying local proton sources highlights that the catalytic activity of Re complexes is more sensitive to the presence of local OH groups. Similar to Re-2OH (2OH = 4-phenyl-6-(phenyl-2,6-diol)-2,2'-bipyridine), 1 and Mn-1OH display a selective reduction of CO2 to CO. In the case of the Re bipyridine-type complex, the formation of a relatively stable Re-O bond and a preference for phenolate-based reactivity with CO2 slightly inhibit the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO, resulting in a low TON value of 9, even in the presence of phenol as a proton source.Thermoresponsive polymers with lower critical solution temperatures (LCSTs) are of significant interest for a wide range of applications from sensors to drug delivery vehicles. PFTμ However, the most widely investigated LCST polymers have nondegradable backbones, limiting their applications in vivo or in the environment. Described here are thermoresponsive polymers based on a self-immolative polyglyoxylamide (PGAM) backbone. Poly(ethyl glyoxylate) was amidated with six different alkoxyalkyl amines to afford the corresponding PGAMs, and their cloud point temperatures (Tcps) were studied in water and buffer. Selected examples with promising thermoresponsive behavior were also studied in cell culture media, and their aggregation behavior was investigated using dynamic light scattering (DLS). The Tcps were effectively tuned by varying the pendent functional groups. These polymers depolymerized end-to-end following the cleavage of end-caps from their termini. The structures and aggregation behavior of the polymers influenced their rates of depolymerization, and, in turn, the depolymerization influenced their Tcp. Cell culture experiments indicated that the polymers exhibited low toxicity to C2C12 mouse myoblast cells. This interplay between LCST and depolymerization behavior, combined with low toxicity, makes this new class of polymers of particular interest for biomedical applications.To efficiently save cost and reduce risk in drug research and development, there is a pressing demand to develop in silico methods to predict drug sensitivity to cancer cells. With the exponentially increasing number of multi-omics data derived from high-throughput techniques, machine learning-based methods have been applied to the prediction of drug sensitivities. However, these methods have drawbacks either in the interpretability of the mechanism of drug action or limited performance in modeling drug sensitivity. In this paper, we presented a pathway-guided deep neural network (DNN) model to predict the drug sensitivity in cancer cells. Biological pathways describe a group of molecules in a cell that collaborates to control various biological functions like cell proliferation and death, thereby abnormal function of pathways can result in disease. To take advantage of the excellent predictive ability of DNN and the biological knowledge of pathways, we reshaped the canonical DNN structure by incorporating a layer of pathway nodes and their connections to input gene nodes, which makes the DNN model more interpretable and predictive compared to canonical DNN. We have conducted extensive performance evaluations on multiple independent drug sensitivity data sets and demonstrated that our model significantly outperformed the canonical DNN model and eight other classical regression models. Most importantly, we observed a remarkable activity decrease in disease-related pathway nodes during forward propagation upon inputs of drug targets, which implicitly corresponds to the inhibition effect of disease-related pathways induced by drug treatment on cancer cells. Our empirical experiments showed that our method achieves pharmacological interpretability and predictive ability in modeling drug sensitivity in cancer cells. The web server, the processed data sets, and source codes for reproducing our work are available at http//pathdnn.denglab.org.Nanocrystals are a state-of-matter in the border area between molecules and bulk materials. Unlike bulk materials, nanocrystals have size-dependent properties, yet the question remains whether nanocrystal properties can be analyzed, understood, and controlled with atomic precision, a key characteristic of molecules. Acknowledging the inclination of nanocrystals to form defect structures, we first outline the prospects of atomically precise analysis. A broad spectrum of analytical methods has become available over the last five years, such that for heterogeneous nanocrystal ensembles, a single, atomically precise representative structure can be determined to explore structure-property relations. Atomically precise synthesis, on the other hand, remains an outstanding challenge that may well face fundamental limitations. However, to amplify properties and prepare nanocrystals for specific applications, full atomic precision may not be needed. Examples of an atomic precision light approach, focusing on exact thickness or facet control, exist and can inspire scientists to explore atomic precision in nanocrystal research further.Interactions between polysaccharides, specifically between cellulose and hemicelluloses like xyloglucan (XG), govern the mechanical properties of the plant cell wall. This work aims to understand how XG molecular weight (MW) and the removal of saccharide residues impact the elastic modulus of XG-cellulose materials. Layered sub-micrometer-thick films of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and XG were employed to mimic the structure of the plant cell wall and contained either (1) unmodified XG, (2) low MW XG produced by ultrasonication (USXG), or (3) XG with a reduced degree of galactosylation (DGXG). Their mechanical properties were characterized through thermal shrinking-induced buckling. Elastic moduli of 19 ± 2, 27 ± 1, and 75 ± 6 GPa were determined for XG-CNC, USXG-CNC, and DGXG-CNC films, respectively. The conformation of XG adsorbed on CNCs is influenced by MW, which impacts mechanical properties. To a greater degree, partial degalactosylation, which is known to increase XG self-association and binding capacity of XG to cellulose, increases the modulus by fourfold for DGXG-CNC films compared to XG-CNC. Films were also buckled while fully hydrated by using the thermal shrinking method but applying the heat using an autoclave; the results implied that hydrated films are thicker and softer, exhibiting a lower elastic modulus compared to dry films. This work contributes to the understanding of structure-function relationships in the plant cell wall and may aid in the design of tunable biobased materials for applications in biosensing, packaging, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.Oral bioavailability (OBA)-related pharmacokinetic properties, such as aqueous solubility, lipophilicity, and intestinal membrane permeability, play a significant role in drug discovery. However, their measurement is usually costly and time-consuming. Therefore, prediction models based on diverse approaches have been established in recent decades. Computational prediction of molecular properties has become an important step in drug discovery, aiming to identify potential drug-like candidates and reduce costs. However, limitations related to dataset capacity and algorithm adaptation still place restrictions on the applicability of the related models. In this study, we considered both dataset and algorithm optimization to address the challenge of predicting OBA-related molecular properties. Benchmark datasets of aqueous solubility (log S), lipophilicity (log D), and membrane permeability measured using the Caco-2 cell line (log Papp) were constructed by merging and calibrating experimental data from diverse articles and databases. Then, a novel molecular property prediction model, called a multiembedding-based synthetic network (MESN), was generated by applying a deep learning algorithm based on the synthesis of multiple types of molecular embeddings. MESN achieves performance improvements over other state-of-the-art methods for the prediction of aqueous solubility, lipophilicity, and membrane permeability. Results were also obtained using several other algorithms and independent validation datasets as a control study. Moreover, a dimension reduction analysis (based on t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding, t-SNE) and an atomic feature similarity analysis showed that the molecular embeddings extracted from the MESN model exhibit good clustering and diversity. Overall, considering the fundamental role of the data and the superior prediction performance of the model, we highlight the applicability of MESN on benchmark datasets for further utility in drug discovery-related molecular property prediction.Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is an attractive antitumor drug candidate for precision cancer therapy due to its superior selective cytotoxicity in a variety of tumor cells. However, the clinical application of TRAIL in cancer therapy has been limited by its poor tumor-homing capacities and short half-life. Herein, we designed a tridomain TRAIL variant, Z-ABD-TRAIL, by sequentially fusing the platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFRβ)-specific affibody ZPDGFRβ and an albumin-binding domain (ABD) to the N-terminus of TRAIL. The fusion protein Z-ABD-TRAIL was produced as a soluble protein with high yield in Escherichia coli (E. coli). The ZPDGFRβ domain provided Z-ABD-TRAIL with PDGFRβ-binding properties and thus promoted its tumor homing via the engagement of PDGFRβ-expressing pericytes on tumor microvessels. ABD-mediated binding of Z-ABD-TRAIL to albumin in the blood endowed TRAIL with long-lasting (>72 h for Z-ABD-TRAIL vs less then 0.5 h for TRAIL) abilities to kill tumor cells.
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