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Eradication of unresectable liver metastasis through induction of tumour specific energy depletion.
Treatment of liver metastasis experiences slow progress owing to the severe side effects. In this study, we demonstrate a strategy capable of eliminating metastatic cancer cells in a selective manner. Nucleus-targeting W18O49 nanoparticles (WONPs) are conjugated to mitochondria-selective mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) containing photosensitizer (Ce6) through a Cathepsin B-cleavable peptide. In hepatocytes, upon the laser irradiation, the generated singlet oxygen species are consumed by WONPs, in turn leading to the loss of their photothermally heating capacity, thereby sparing hepatocyte from thermal damage induced by the laser illumination. By contrast, in cancer cells, the cleaved peptide linker allows WONPs and MSNs to respectively target nucleus and mitochondria, where the therapeutic powers could be unleashed, both photodynamically and photothermally. This ensures the energy production of cancer cells can be abolished. We further assess the underlying molecular mechanism at both gene and protein levels to better understand the therapeutic outcome
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Stereodivergent Construction of Tertiary Fluorides in Vicinal Stereogenic Pairs by Allylic Substitution with Iridium and Copper Catalysts.
Although much effort has been spent on the enantioselective synthesis of tertiary alkyl fluorides, the synthesis of compounds containing such a stereogenic center within an array of stereocenters, particularly two vicinal ones, remains a synthetic challenge, and no method to control the configuration of each stereogenic center independently has been reported. We describe a strategy to achieve such a stereodivergent synthesis of vicinal stereogenic centers, one containing a fluorine atom, by forming the connecting carbon-carbon bond with a catalyst system comprising an iridium complex that controls the configuration at the electrophilic carbon and a copper catalyst that controls the configuration at the nucleophilic fluorine-containing carbon. These reactions occur with alkyl- and aryl-substituted allylic esters and the unstabilized enolates of azaaryl ketones, esters, and amides in high yield, diastereoselectivity, and enantioselectivity (generally >90% yield, >20:1 dr, 97-99% ee). Access to all four stereoisomers of products demonstrates the precise control of the two configurations independently. This methodology extends to the stereodivergent construction of vicinal quaternary and tertiary stereocenters in similarly high yield and selectivity. DFT calculations uncover the origin of stereoselectivity of copper enolate in allylic substitution
How chatbots’ anthropomorphism affects user satisfaction: The mediating role of perceived warmth and competence
Diffusion of self-assembled monolayers of thiols on the gold surfaces covered with polydimethylsiloxane stamps
Precise measurement of 226Ra/230Th disequilibria in deep-sea sediments by high-sensitivity ICP-MS
Prospect of detecting magnetic fields from strong-magnetized binary neutron stars
Binary neutron star mergers are unique sources of gravitational waves in
multi-messenger astronomy. The inspiral phase of binary neutron stars can emit
gravitational waves as chirp signals. The present waveform models of
gravitational wave only considered the gravitational interaction. In this
paper, we derive the waveform of the gravitational wave signal taking into
account the presence of magnetic fields. We found that the electromagnetic
interaction and radiation can introduce different frequency-dependent power
laws for both amplitude and frequency of the gravitational wave. We show from
the results of Fisher information matrix that the third-generation observation
may detect magnetic dipole moments if the magnetic field is around 10^17 G
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