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Mesoporous Zirconium Phenylphosphonates for Selective Enrichment of Phosphopeptides
Mesoporous
zirconium phenylphosphonates were synthesized by one-pot
co-condensation of ZrCl<sub>4</sub> and phenylphosphonic acid (PPA)
under weak acidic medium using sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as a template.
The structure and chemical states of the synthesized materials were
characterized by N<sub>2</sub> sorption, powder XRD, TEM and FT-IR,
ICP, and solid-state NMR, indicating that the hybrids possess mesoporous
structure and the frameworks are constructed by the coordination of
zirconiumÂ(IV) with phenylphosphonates. These mesoporous materials
present a considerable amount of uniformly distributed zirconiumÂ(IV)
throughout the frameworks available for the enrichment of phosphopeptides,
which causes them to circumvent the complex preloading of metal ions
required for traditional immobilized metal affinity chromatographic
(IMAC) adsorbents. Thus, the materials are first applied as IMAC adsorbents
to enrich phosphopeptides from the tryptic digests of both standard
phosphoproteins and a mixture of proteins. MALDI-TOF MS analysis shows
that mesoporous zirconium phenylphosphonates exhibit satisfying efficiency
and specificity in the enrichment of phosphopeptides from peptides
even under strong interference of nonphophopeptides
Synthesis of Calcium Bisphosphonate/Calcium Polyacrylate Spheres for Gene Delivery
Calcium
bisphosphonate/calcium polyacrylate spheres were synthesized
by a facile method and applied for the first time as gene vectors
for transfection. The colloidal spheres of the PAA–Ca<sup>2+</sup>–H<sub>2</sub>O complex, formed by sodium polyacrylate and
calcium ions in the solution, were used as template to synthesize
a spherical PAA–Ca<sup>2+</sup>–BPMP composite (CaBPMP/CaPAA)
in the presence of 1,4-bisÂ(phosphomethyl)Âpiperazine (BPMP). The CaBPMP/CaPAA
composite exhibits uniform and well-dispersed spheres with a particle
size of about 200 nm as expected. The cytotoxicity assays confirm
that CaBPMP/CaPAA spheres are quite safe for different cells even
at a high concentration of 500 μg/mL. In vitro transfection
results show that CaBPMP/CaPAA spheres serving as gene vectors are
capable of transferring exogenous genes into different cells with
about 25% of transfection efficiency and good reproducibility. The
transfection capacity of CaBPMP/CaPAA spheres may be attributed to
the controllable sphere morphology, low cytotoxicity, moderate DNA
loading capacity, and bioresorbable property. The application of calcium
phosphonates with adjustable surface properties derived from the different
organic groups of phosphonic acid in gene delivery provides a new
design idea for gene vectors
Datasets of our collected dopamine receptor multi-subtype ligands.
<p>Four groups of this dataset were used as negative samples for testing subtype selectivity of our developed multi-label machine learning models.</p
The performance of our new method 2SBR-SVM and that of previously used methods Combi-SVM, ML-kNN and RAkEL-DT in predicting dopamine receptor multi-subtype ligands as non-selective ligands.
<p>The performance of our new method 2SBR-SVM and that of previously used methods Combi-SVM, ML-kNN and RAkEL-DT in predicting dopamine receptor multi-subtype ligands as non-selective ligands.</p
Top-ranked molecular descriptors for distinguishing dopamine receptor subtype D1, D2, D3 or D4 selective ligands selected by RFE feature selection method.
<p>Top-ranked molecular descriptors for distinguishing dopamine receptor subtype D1, D2, D3 or D4 selective ligands selected by RFE feature selection method.</p
Datasets of our collected dopamine receptor D1, D2, D3 and D4 selective ligands against another subtype.
<p>The binding affinity ratio is the experimentally measured binding affinity to the second subtype divided by that to the first subtype: (Ki of the second subtype / Ki of the first subtype). This dataset was used as positive samples for testing subtype selectivity of our developed virtual screening models.</p
Datasets of our collected dopamine receptor D1, D2, D3 and D4 ligands, non-ligands and putative non-ligands.
<p>Dopamine receptor D1, D2, D3 and D4 ligands (Ki <1 μM) and non-ligands (ki >10 μM) were collected as described in method section, and putative non-ligands were generated from representative compounds of compound families with no known ligand. These datasets were used for training and testing the multi-label machine learning models.</p
The performance of our new method 2SBR-SVM and that of previously used methods Combi-SVM, ML-kNN and RAkEL-DT in predicting dopamine receptor subtype selective ligands.
<p>The performance of our new method 2SBR-SVM and that of previously used methods Combi-SVM, ML-kNN and RAkEL-DT in predicting dopamine receptor subtype selective ligands.</p
Table_1_Plasma exosomal IRAK1 can be a potential biomarker for predicting the treatment response to renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in patients with IgA nephropathy.docx
BackgroundRenin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASi) are the first choice and basic therapy for the treatment of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) with proteinuria. However, approximately 40% of patients have no response to RASi treatment. The aim of this study was to screen potential biomarkers for predicting the treatment response of RASi in patients with IgAN.MethodsWe included IgAN patients who were treatment-naive. They received supportive treatment, including a maximum tolerant dose of RASi for 3 months. According to the degree of decrease in proteinuria after 3 months of follow-up, these patients were divided into a sensitive group and a resistant group. The plasma of the two groups of patients was collected, and the exosomes were extracted for high-throughput sequencing. The screening of hub genes was performed using a weighted gene co-expression network (WGCNA) and filtering differentially expressed genes (DEGs). We randomly selected 20 patients in the sensitive group and 20 patients in the resistant group for hub gene validation by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT−PCR). A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to evaluate hub genes that predicted the efficacy of the RASi response among the 40 validation patients.ResultsAfter screening 370 IgAN patients according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and the RASi treatment response evaluation, there were 38 patients in the sensitive group and 32 patients in the resistant group. IRAK1, ABCD1 and PLXNB3 were identified as hub genes by analyzing the high-throughput sequencing of the plasma exosomes of the two groups through WGCNA and DEGs screening. The sequencing data were consistent with the validation data showing that these three hub genes were upregulated in the resistant group compared with the sensitive group. The ROC curve indicated that IRAK1 was a good biomarker to predict the therapeutic response of RASi in patients with IgAN.ConclusionsPlasma exosomal IRAK1 can be a potential biomarker for predicting the treatment response of RASi in patients with IgAN.</p
Image_1_Plasma exosomal IRAK1 can be a potential biomarker for predicting the treatment response to renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in patients with IgA nephropathy.jpeg
BackgroundRenin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASi) are the first choice and basic therapy for the treatment of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) with proteinuria. However, approximately 40% of patients have no response to RASi treatment. The aim of this study was to screen potential biomarkers for predicting the treatment response of RASi in patients with IgAN.MethodsWe included IgAN patients who were treatment-naive. They received supportive treatment, including a maximum tolerant dose of RASi for 3 months. According to the degree of decrease in proteinuria after 3 months of follow-up, these patients were divided into a sensitive group and a resistant group. The plasma of the two groups of patients was collected, and the exosomes were extracted for high-throughput sequencing. The screening of hub genes was performed using a weighted gene co-expression network (WGCNA) and filtering differentially expressed genes (DEGs). We randomly selected 20 patients in the sensitive group and 20 patients in the resistant group for hub gene validation by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT−PCR). A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to evaluate hub genes that predicted the efficacy of the RASi response among the 40 validation patients.ResultsAfter screening 370 IgAN patients according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and the RASi treatment response evaluation, there were 38 patients in the sensitive group and 32 patients in the resistant group. IRAK1, ABCD1 and PLXNB3 were identified as hub genes by analyzing the high-throughput sequencing of the plasma exosomes of the two groups through WGCNA and DEGs screening. The sequencing data were consistent with the validation data showing that these three hub genes were upregulated in the resistant group compared with the sensitive group. The ROC curve indicated that IRAK1 was a good biomarker to predict the therapeutic response of RASi in patients with IgAN.ConclusionsPlasma exosomal IRAK1 can be a potential biomarker for predicting the treatment response of RASi in patients with IgAN.</p