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Retraction Note: Gold Nanoparticles‑enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa cells
The editors have retracted their article Gold Nanoparticles-enabled Efficient Dual Delivery of Anticancer Therapeutics to HeLa cells. Concerns were brought to the attention of the Editors with respect to apparent inappropriate manipulation of the data in seven of the nine panels shown in Figure 7. The Editors no longer have confidence in the data reported in this Article
Profiling Mechanisms of Alkane Hydroxylase Activity In Vivo Using the Diagnostic Substrate Norcarane
SummaryMechanistically informative chemical probes are used to characterize the activity of functional alkane hydroxylases in whole cells. Norcarane is a substrate used to reveal the lifetime of radical intermediates formed during alkane oxidation. Results from oxidations of this probe with organisms that contain the two most prevalent medium-chain-length alkane-oxidizing metalloenzymes, alkane ω-monooxygenase (AlkB) and cytochrome P450 (CYP), are reported. The results—radical lifetimes of 1–7 ns for AlkB and less than 100 ps for CYP—indicate that these two classes of enzymes are mechanistically distinguishable and that whole-cell mechanistic assays can identify the active hydroxylase. The oxidation of norcarane by several recently isolated strains (Hydrocarboniphaga effusa AP103, rJ4, and rJ5, whose alkane-oxidizing enzymes have not yet been identified) is also reported. Radical lifetimes of 1–3 ns are observed, consistent with these organisms containing an AlkB-like enzyme and inconsistent with their employing a CYP-like enzyme for growth on hydrocarbons
Cell-Free Synthetic Biology Chassis for Nanocatalytic Photon-to-Hydrogen Conversion
We report on an entirely
man-made nano-bio architecture fabricated
through noncovalent assembly of a cell-free expressed transmembrane
proton pump and TiO<sub>2</sub> semiconductor nanoparticles as an
efficient nanophotocatalyst for H<sub>2</sub> evolution. The system
produces hydrogen at a turnover of about 240 μmol of H<sub>2</sub> (μmol protein)<sup>−1</sup> h<sup>–1</sup> and
17.74 mmol of H<sub>2</sub> (μmol protein)<sup>−1</sup> h<sup>–1</sup> under monochromatic green and white light,
respectively, at ambient conditions, in water at neutral pH and room
temperature, with methanol as a sacrificial electron donor. Robustness
and flexibility of this approach allow for systemic manipulation at
the nanoparticle–bio interface toward directed evolution of
energy transformation materials and artificial systems