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Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have been explored for photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer, but their antitumor efficacy is limited by excited state quenching and low reactive oxygen species generation efficiency. Herein, we report a simultaneous protonation and metalation strategy to significantly enhance the PDT efficacy of a nanoscale two-dimensional imine-linked porphyrin-COF. The neutral and unmetalated porphyrin-COF (Ptp) and the protonated and metalated porphyrin-COF (Ptp-Fe) were synthesized via imine condensation between 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-aminophenyl)porphyrin and terephthalaldehyde in the absence and presence of ferric chloride, respectively. The presence of ferric chloride generated both doubly protonated and Fe3+-coordinated porphyrin units, which red-shifted and increased the Q-band absorption and disrupted exciton migration to prevent excited state quenching, respectively. Under light irradiation, rapid energy transfer from protonated porphyrins to Fe3+-coordinated porphyrins in Ptp-Fe enabled 1O2 and hydroxyl radical generation via type II and type I PDT processes. Ptp-Fe also catalyzed the conversion of hydrogen peroxide to hydroxy radical through a photoenhanced Fenton-like reaction under slightly acidic conditions and light illumination. As a result, Ptp-Fe-mediated PDT exhibited much higher cytotoxicity than Ptp-mediated PDT on CT26 and 4T1 cancer cells. Ptp-Fe-mediated PDT afforded potent antitumor efficacy in subcutaneous CT26 murine colon cancer and orthotopic 4T1 murine triple-negative breast tumors and prevented metastasis of 4T1 breast cancer to the lungs. This work underscores the role of fine-tuning the molecular structures of COFs in significantly enhancing their PDT efficacy.
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Phosphine-ligated transition metal complexes play a pivotal role in modern catalysis, but our understanding of the impact of ligand counts on the catalysis performance of the metal center is limited. Here we report the synthesis of a low-coordinate mono(phosphine)-Rh catalyst on a metal-organic layer (MOL), P-MOL ⢠Rh, and its applications in the hydrogenation of mono-, di-, and tri-substituted alkenes as well as aryl nitriles with turnover numbers (TONs) of up to 390000. Mechanistic investigations and density functional theory calculations revealed the lowering of reaction energy barriers by the low steric hindrance of site-isolated mono(phosphine)-Rh sites on the MOL to provide superior catalytic activity over homogeneous Rh catalysts. The MOL also prevents catalyst deactivation to enable recycle and reuse of P-MOL ⢠Rh in catalytic hydrogenation reactions.
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Radiotherapy is widely used for cancer treatment, but its clinical utility is limited by radioresistance and its inability to target metastases. Nanoscale metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown promise as high-Z nanoradiosensitizers to enhance radiotherapy and induce immunostimulatory regulation of the tumor microenvironment. We hypothesized that MOFs could deliver small-molecule therapeutics to synergize with radiotherapy for enhanced antitumor efficacy. Herein, we develop a robust nanoradiosensitizer, GA-MOF, by conjugating a STING agonist, 2',3'-cyclic guanosine monophosphate-adenosine monophosphate (GA), on MOFs for synergistic radiosensitization and STING activation. GA-MOF demonstrated strong anticancer efficacy by forming immune-cell-rich nodules (artificial leukocytoid structures) and transforming them into immunostimulatory hotspots with radiotherapy. Further combination with an immune checkpoint blockade suppressed distant tumors through systemic immune activation. Our work not only demonstrates the potent radiosensitization of GA-MOF, but also provides detailed mechanisms regarding MOF distribution, immune regulatory pathways and long-term immune effects.
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Abnormal cancer metabolism causes hypoxic and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME), which limits the antitumor efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT). Herein, we report a photosensitizing nanoscale metal-organic layer (MOL) with anchored 3-bromopyruvate (BrP), BrP@MOL, as a metabolic reprogramming agent to enhance PDT and antitumor immunity. BrP@MOL inhibited mitochondrial respiration and glycolysis to oxygenate tumors and reduce lactate production. This metabolic reprogramming enhanced reactive oxygen species generation during PDT and reshaped the immunosuppressive TME to enhance antitumor immunity. BrP@MOL-mediated PDT inhibited tumor growth by >90 % with 40 % of mice being tumor-free, rejected tumor re-challenge, and prevented lung metastasis. Further combination with immune checkpoint blockade potently regressed the tumors with >98 % tumor inhibition and 80 % of mice being tumor-free.
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Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is one of the most important instruments for analyzing volatile organic compounds. However, the complexity of real samples and the limitations of chromatographic separation capabilities lead to coeluting compounds without ideal separation. In this study, a Transformer-based automatic resolution method (GCMSFormer) is proposed to resolve mass spectra from GC-MS peaks in an end-to-end manner, predicting the mass spectra of components directly from the raw overlapping peaks data. Furthermore, orthogonal projection resolution (OPR) was integrated into GCMSFormer to resolve minor components. The GCMSFormer model was trained, validated, and tested using 100,000 augmented data. It achieves 99.88% of the bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU) value on the test set, significantly higher than the 97.68% BLEU value of the baseline sequence-to-sequence model long short-term memory (LSTM). GCMSFormer was also compared with two nondeep learning resolution tools (MZmine and AMDIS) and two deep learning resolution tools (PARAFAC2 with DL and MSHub/GNPS) on a real plant essential oil GC-MS data set. Their resolution results were compared on evaluation metrics, including the number of compounds resolved, mass spectral match score, correlation coefficient, explained variance, and resolution speed. The results demonstrate that GCMSFormer has better resolution performance, higher automation, and faster resolution speed. In summary, GCMSFormer is an end-to-end, fast, fully automatic, and accurate method for analyzing GC-MS data of complex samples.
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^{134}Xe is a candidate isotope for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νßß) search. In addition, the two-neutrino case (2νßß) allowed by the standard model of particle physics has not yet been observed. With the 656-kg natural xenon in the fiducial volume of the PandaX-4T detector, which contains 10.4% of ^{134}Xe, and its initial 94.9-day exposure, we have established the most stringent constraints on 2νßß and 0νßß of ^{134}Xe half-lives, with limits of 2.8×10^{22} yr and 3.0×10^{23} yr at 90% confidence level, respectively. The 2νßß (0νßß) limit surpasses the previously reported best result by a factor of 32 (2.7), highlighting the potential of large monolithic natural xenon detectors for double beta decay searches.
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Photocatalytic direct hydrogen atom transfer (d-HAT) is a synthetically important strategy to convert C-H bonds to useful C-X bonds. Herein we report the synthesis of an anthraquinone-based two-dimensional covalent organic framework, DAAQ-COF, as a recyclable d-HAT photocatalyst for C-H functionalization. Powder X-ray diffraction, N2 sorption isotherms, solid-state NMR spectra, infrared spectra, and thermogravimetric analysis characterized DAAQ-COF as a crystalline, porous COF with a stable ketoenamine linkage and strong absorption in the visible region. Under visible light irradiation, DAAQ-COF is photo-excited to cleave C(sp3)-H or C(sp2)-H bonds via HAT to generate reactive carbon radicals, which add to different radical acceptors to achieve C-N or C-C coupling reactions. DAAQ-COF is easily recovered from the reaction mixture via centrifugation or filtration and used in six consecutive reaction runs without any decrease in catalytic efficiency. The ease of catalyst separation allows sequential conversion of the C-N coupling intermediate to synthetically useful amide, ester, or thioester products. Photophysical and isotope labelling experiments support the d-HAT mechanism of DAAQ-COF-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization.
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Photochemical generation of alkyl radicals from haloalkanes often requires strong energy input from ultraviolet light or a strong photoreductant. Haloalkanes can alternatively be activated with nitrogen-based nucleophiles through a sequential SN2 reaction and single-electron reduction to access alkyl radicals, but these two reaction steps have opposite steric requirements on the nucleophiles. Herein, we report the design of Hf12 metal-organic layers (MOLs) with iridium-based photosensitizer bridging ligands and secondary-building-unit-supported pyridines for photocatalytic alkyl radical generation from haloalkanes. By bringing the photosensitizer and pyridine pairs in proximity, the MOL catalysts allowed facile access to the pyridinium salts from SN2 reactions between haloalkanes and pyridines and at the same time enhanced electron transfer from excited photosensitizers to pyridinium salts to facilitate alkyl radical generation. Consequentially, the MOLs efficiently catalyzed Heck-type cross-coupling reactions between haloalkanes and olefinic substrates to generate functionalized alkenes. The MOLs showed 4.6 times higher catalytic efficiency than the homogeneous counterparts and were recycled and reused without a loss of catalytic activity.
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Objective:Exploring the electrophysiological changes of auditory rehabilitation in young children with hearing impairment, providing more methods for early assessment and intervention. Methods:Twenty children aged 2-4 were enrolled, with moderate hearing loss and no other abnormalities in the ears. Divide them into group 1 with normal hearing, group 2 with abnormal hearing, group 3 with abnormal hearing receiving hearing aid intervention for one year, and group 4 with abnormal hearing receiving hearing aid and language training rehabilitation for one year. The SmartEP auditory evoked potential instrument was used to detect speech induced ABR and conduct screening for 'Standards and Evaluating Hearing and Language Abilities of Children with Hearing Impairment in 80 enrolled children after rehabilitation training, and the latencyãamplitude of speech induced ABR waveform and evaluation scale scores for each group after rehabilitation intervention were compared. Results:Compared with the normal group, the latency of each wave in the other three groups was prolonged. The differences in each wave between Group 2 and Group 3 were statistically significant, while the differences in D and F waves between Group 3 and Group 4 were statistically significant. Compared with the normal group, the maximum amplitude at F0 decreased in the other three groups, and the differences in maximum amplitude between Group 2 and Group 3, Group 2 and Group 4, and Group 3 and Group 4 were statistically significant. Compared with the normal group, the scores of the auditory language assessment scale in the hearing intervention group and the hearing aid plus language training group were significantly higher than those in the abnormal group in terms of recognition rate. The recognition rates of hearing impaired children with language training foundation are similar to those of the normal group of children. Conclusion:Auditory rehabilitation can alter the electrophysiological aspects of hearing and serve as a basis for early assessment and intervention in young children.
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Deafness , Speech , Child , Humans , Child, Preschool , Hearing , Cognition , Evoked Potentials, AuditoryABSTRACT
Coal fly ash (CFA), a byproduct of coal combustion, is a hazardous industrial solid waste. Its excessive global production, coupled with improper disposal practices, insufficient utilization and limited awareness of its inherent hazards, poses a significant threat to both ecological environment and human health. Based on the physicochemical properties of CFA and its leachates, we elucidate the forms of CFA and potential pathways for its entry into the human body, as well as the leaching behavior, maximum tolerance and biological half-life of toxic elements present in CFA. Furthermore, we provide an overview of current strategies and methods for mitigating the leaching of these harmful elements from CFA. Moreover, we systemically summarize toxic effect of CFA on organisms across various tiers of complexity, analyze epidemiological findings concerning the human health implications resulting from CFA exposure, and delve into the biotoxicological mechanisms of CFA and its leachates at cellular and molecular levels. This review aims to enhance understanding of the potential toxicity of CFA, thereby promoting increased public awareness regarding the disposal and management of this industrial waste.
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Coal Ash , Ecosystem , Humans , Coal Ash/analysis , Coal , Environment , Industrial Waste/adverse effectsABSTRACT
Phthalocyanine photosensitizers (PSs) have shown promise in fluorescence imaging and photodynamic therapy (PDT) of malignant tumors, but their practical application is limited by the aggregation-induced quenching (AIQ) and inherent photobleaching of PSs. Herein, we report the synthesis of a two-dimensional nanoscale covalent organic framework (nCOF) with staggered (AB) stacking of zinc-phthalocyanines (ZnPc), ZnPc-PI, for fluorescence imaging and mitochondria-targeted PDT. ZnPc-PI isolates and confines ZnPc PSs in the rigid nCOF to reduce AIQ, improve photostability, enhance cellular uptake, and increase the level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation via mitochondrial targeting. ZnPc-PI shows efficient tumor accumulation, which allowed precise tumor imaging and nanoparticle tracking. With high cellular uptake and tumor accumulation, intrinsic mitochondrial targeting, and enhanced ROS generation, ZnPc-PI exhibits potent PDT efficacy with >95% tumor growth inhibition on two murine colon cancer models without causing side effects.
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Metal-Organic Frameworks , Neoplasms , Organometallic Compounds , Photochemotherapy , Zinc Compounds , Mice , Humans , Animals , Photochemotherapy/methods , Metal-Organic Frameworks/therapeutic use , Reactive Oxygen Species , Photosensitizing Agents/pharmacology , Photosensitizing Agents/therapeutic use , Isoindoles , Neoplasms/drug therapy , Organometallic Compounds/pharmacology , Organometallic Compounds/therapeutic use , Indoles/pharmacology , Indoles/therapeutic use , Mitochondria , Cell Line, TumorABSTRACT
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as tunable, crystalline, and porous functional organic materials, but their application in photocatalysis has been limited by rapid excited-state quenching. Herein, we report the first example of dual photoredox/nickel catalysis by an sp2 carbon-conjugated spirobifluorene-based COF. Constructed from spirobifluorene and nickel-bipyridine linkers, the NiSCN COF adopted a two-dimensional structure with staggered stacking. Under light irradiation, NiSCN catalyzed amination and etherification/esterification reactions of aryl halides through the photoredox mechanism, with a catalytic efficiency more than 23-fold higher than that of its homogeneous control. NiSCN was used in five consecutive reactions without a significant loss of catalytic activity.
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We report results of a search for dark-matter-nucleon interactions via a dark mediator using optimized low-energy data from the PandaX-4T liquid xenon experiment. With the ionization-signal-only data and utilizing the Migdal effect, we set the most stringent limits on the cross section for dark matter masses ranging from 30 MeV/c^{2} to 2 GeV/c^{2}. Under the assumption that the dark mediator is a dark photon that decays into scalar dark matter pairs in the early Universe, we rule out significant parameter space of such thermal relic dark-matter model.
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We report a search for light dark matter produced through the cascading decay of η mesons, which are created as a result of inelastic collisions between cosmic rays and Earth's atmosphere. We introduce a new and general framework, publicly accessible, designed to address boosted dark matter specifically, with which a full and dedicated simulation including both elastic and quasielastic processes of Earth attenuation effect on the dark matter particles arriving at the detector is performed. In the PandaX-4T commissioning data of 0.63 tonne·year exposure, no significant excess over background is observed. The first constraints on the interaction between light dark matter generated in the atmosphere and nucleus through a light scalar mediator are obtained. The lowest excluded cross section is set at 5.9×10^{-37} cm^{2} for a dark matter mass of 0.1 MeV/c^{2} and mediator mass of 300 MeV/c^{2}. The lowest upper limit of η to the dark matter decay branching ratio is 1.6×10^{-7}.
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We report the search results of light dark matter through its interactions with shell electrons and nuclei, using the commissioning data from the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector. Low energy events are selected to have an ionization-only signal between 60 to 200 photoelectrons, corresponding to a mean nuclear recoil energy from 0.77 to 2.54 keV and electronic recoil energy from 0.07 to 0.23 keV. With an effective exposure of 0.55 tonne·year, we set the most stringent limits within a mass range from 40 MeV/c^{2} to 10 GeV/c^{2} for pointlike dark matter-electron interaction, 100 MeV/c^{2} to 10 GeV/c^{2} for dark matter-electron interaction via a light mediator, and 3.2 to 4 GeV/c^{2} for dark matter-nucleon spin-independent interaction. For DM interaction with electrons, our limits are closing in on the parameter space predicted by the freeze-in and freeze-out mechanisms in the early Universe.
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Cell Nucleus , ElectronsABSTRACT
Although many monometallic active sites have been installed in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for catalytic reactions, there are no effective strategies to generate bimetallic catalysts in MOFs. Here we report the synthesis of a robust, efficient, and reusable MOF catalyst, MOF-NiH, by adaptively generating and stabilizing dinickel active sites using the bipyridine groups in MOF-253 with the formula of Al(OH)(2,2'-bipyridine-5,5'-dicarboxylate) for Z-selective semihydrogenation of alkynes and selective hydrogenation of C=C bonds in α,ß-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones. Spectroscopic studies established the dinickel complex (bpyâ - )NiII (µ2 -H)2 NiII (bpyâ - ) as the active catalyst. MOF-NiH efficiently catalyzed selective hydrogenation reactions with turnover numbers of up to 192 and could be used in five cycles of hydrogenation reactions without catalyst leaching or significant decrease of catalytic activities. The present work uncovers a synthetic strategy toward solution-inaccessible Earth-abundant bimetallic MOF catalysts for sustainable catalysis.
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We report the self-assembly of amphiphilic BDQ photosensitizers into lysosome-targeting nanophotosensitizer BDQ-NP for highly effective photodynamic therapy (PDT). Molecular dynamics simulation, live cell imaging, and subcellular colocalization studies showed that BDQ strongly incorporated into lysosome lipid bilayers to cause continuous lysosomal membrane permeabilization. Upon light irradiation, the BDQ-NP generated a high level of reactive oxygen species to disrupt lysosomal and mitochondrial functions, leading to exceptionally high cytotoxicity. The intravenously injected BDQ-NP accumulated in tumours to achieve excellent PDT efficacy on subcutaneous colorectal and orthotopic breast tumor models without causing systemic toxicity. BDQ-NP-mediated PDT also prevented metastasis of breast tumors to the lungs. This work shows that self-assembled nanoparticles from amphiphilic and organelle-specific photosensitizers provide an excellent strategy to enhance PDT.
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This article is concerned with the event-triggered synchronization of Lur'e systems subject to actuator saturation. Aiming at reducing control costs, a switching-memory-based event-trigger (SMBET) scheme, which allows a switching between the sleeping interval and the memory-based event-trigger (MBET) interval, is first presented. In consideration of the characteristics of SMBET, a piecewise-defined but continuous looped-functional is newly constructed, under which the requirement of positive definiteness and symmetry on some Lyapunov matrices is dropped within the sleeping interval. Then, a hybrid Lyapunov method (HLM), which bridges the gap between the continuous-time Lyapunov theory (CTLT) and the discrete-time Lyapunov theory (DTLT), is used to make the local stability analysis of the closed-loop system. Meanwhile, using a combination of inequality estimation techniques and the generalized sector condition, two sufficient local synchronization criteria and a codesign algorithm for the controller gain and triggering matrix are developed. Furthermore, two optimization strategies are, respectively, put forward to enlarge the estimated domain of attraction (DoA) and the allowable upper bound of sleeping intervals on the premise of ensuring local synchronization. Finally, a three-neuron neural network and the classical Chua's circuit are used to carry out some comparison analyses and to display the advantages of the designed SMBET strategy and the constructed HLM, respectively. Also, an application to image encryption is provided to substantiate the feasibility of the obtained local synchronization results.
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Herein, we report the synthesis of a bifunctional photocatalyst, Zr-OTf-EY, through sequential modifications of metal cluster nodes in a metal-organic layer (MOL). With eosin Y and strong Lewis acids on the nodes, Zr-OTf-EY catalyzes cross-coupling reactions between various C-H compounds and electron-deficient alkenes or azodicarboxylate to afford C-C and C-N coupling products, with turnover numbers of up to 1980. In Zr-OTf-EY-catalyzed reactions, Lewis acid sites bind the alkenes or azodicarboxylate to increase their local concentrations and electron deficiency for enhanced radical additions, while EY is stabilized by site isolation on the MOL to afford a long-lived catalyst for hydrogen atom transfer. The proximity between photostable EY sites and Lewis acids on the nodes of Zr-OTf-EY enhances the catalytic efficiency by approximately 400 times over the homogeneous counterpart in the cross-coupling reactions.
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The efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) depends on the subcellular localization of photosensitizers. Herein, we report a dual-organelle-targeted nanoparticle platform for enhanced PDT of cancer. By grafting 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) to a Hf12 -based nanoscale metal-organic layer (Hf-MOL) via carboxylate coordination, ALA/Hf-MOL enhanced ALA delivery and protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) synthesis in mitochondria, and trapped the Hf-MOL comprising 5,15-di-p-benzoatoporphyrin (DBP) photosensitizers in lysosomes. Light irradiation at 630â nm simultaneously excited PpIX and DBP to generate singlet oxygen and rapidly damage both mitochondria and lysosomes, leading to synergistic enhancement of the PDT efficacy. The dual-organelle-targeted ALA/Hf-MOL outperformed Hf-MOL in preclinical PDT studies, with a 2.7-fold lower half maximal inhibitory concentration in cytotoxicity assays in vitro and a 3-fold higher cure rate in a colon cancer model in vivo.