Theoretical Exploring of a Molecular Mechanism for Melanin Inhibitory Activity of Calycosin in Zebrafish

Tyrosinase is an oxidase that is the rate-limiting enzyme for controlling the production of melanin in the human body. Overproduction of melanin can lead to a variety of skin disorders. Calycosin is an isoflavone from Astragali Radix, which is a traditional Chinese medicine that exhibits several pharmacological activities including skin whitening. In our study, the inhibitory effect of calycosin on melanin production is confirmed in a zebrafish in vivo model by comparing with hydroquinone, kojic acid, and arbutin, known as tyrosinase inhibitors. Moreover, the inhibitory kinetics of calycosin on tyrosinase and their binding mechanisms are determined using molecular docking techniques, molecular dynamic simulations, and free energy analysis. The results indicate that calycosin has an obvious inhibitory effect on zebrafish pigmentation at the concentration of 7.5 μM, 15 μM, and 30 μM. The IC₅₀ of calycosin is 30.35 μM, which is lower than hydroquinone (37.35 μM), kojic acid (6.51 × 10³ μM), and arbutin (3.67 × 10⁴ μM). Furthermore, all the results of molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and free energy analysis suggest that calycosin can directly bind to the active site of tyrosinase with very good binding affinity. The study indicates that the combination of computer molecular modeling and zebrafish in vivo assay would be feasible in confirming the result of the in vitro test and illustrating the target-binding information.     

Origin软件在计算氢离子平衡浓度方面的应用

在Origin 7.5(或以上版本)的运行环境下,通过运行Find_Roots.opj求根附件,可实现各种类型酸碱溶液氢离子平衡浓度的快速、准确计算。介绍了这种计算方法的详细流程。     

SiC纳米棒的紫外发光研究

采用聚硅氮烷前驱体在高温常压下热裂解的方法制备了3C-SiC纳米棒,在室温下观察到来自纳米棒的378 nm（33?eV） 强紫外发射. 利用扫描电子显微镜、透射电子显微镜、高分辨透射电子显微镜和X射线衍射对样品的形貌和结构进行表征,观察到在该结构中存在类似6H-SiC结构的三层堆垛层错. 利用室温荧光光谱和室温荧光衰减曲线研究了强紫外发射的产生机理,紫外发射来源于3C-SiC纳米棒中的三层堆垛层错的发光. 关键词： 碳化硅 纳米棒 光致发光     

Zn取代类水滑石衍生复合氧化物上N2O的催化分解

恒定二价与三价阳离子比为3((nZn+nMg)/nAl=3),采用共沉淀法制备不同Zn含量的系列类水滑石前驱物ZnxMg3-xAl-HT (x=0,0.5,1.0,1.5,2.0,2.5,3.0),经焙烧得到其衍生复合氧化物催化剂ZnxMg3-xAlO,用于N2O的直接催化分解.采用X射线衍射(XRD)、比表面积分析(Brunauer-Emmett-Teller)、热分析(TG-DSC)和傅里叶变换红外(FT-IR)光谱等表征手段考察了Zn含量对材料前驱物及其衍生复合氧化物组成和结构的影响,研究了系列ZnxMg3-xAlO催化剂的N2O催化分解性能,同时探讨了反应条件,如N2O浓度、空速、O2和H2O等因素对催化剂活性的影响.结果表明,所有前驱物材料均能形成完整的层状水滑石结构;经高温焙烧后形成了以Zn-Al尖晶石为主相的复合氧化物,且Zn掺杂有助于促进尖晶石相的生成;Zn含量对材料的热稳定性、比表面积和N2O催化分解活性有显著的影响;随着Zn含量增加,催化剂比表面积下降,但其不是影响催化剂活性的主要因素;650℃焙烧后的Zn2.0Mg1.0AlO催化剂具有较好的N2O催化分解活性;N2O浓度、空速及O2对催化剂活性的影响较小,而H2O则对活性有较大的影响.     

Entanglement Dynamics of the Mixed Two-qubit System in Different Noisy Channels

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of the two-qubit entanglement quantum system when they transmitted through the Pauli channels and the depolarizing channel both independently or collectively. Making use of the concurrence we found that the entanglement of a kind of mixed two-qubit system defined in this paper can be preserved in the collective Pauli σ _y noise channel, but the entanglement of the other kind of mixed two-qubit system can be preserved in the collective Pauli σ _z noise channel. Meanwhile, our quantum systems will undergoing the entanglement sudden death (ESD) in collective depolarizing channel when they return to the maximally entangled Bell states. The reason is the Landblad operators in depolarizing channel are non-commuting operators and this finding is in accord with the previous study.     

高效毛细管电泳-安培检测研究核苷酸水解反应

核酸是重要的生命物质,近些年来,对核酸水解作用的研究已成为人们关注的焦点,寻找一种在温和的生理条件下能够迅速催化水解核酸的人工酶,对于进一步探索核酸的结构及其在生命活动中的作用,阐明细胞间信息传递的机理,以及对于抗癌药物的研制等具有重要意义.有关稀土金属离子及其配合物对核酸的催化作用已有报道[1～3],这种选择性的水解作用断裂点单一,无碎片产生,克服了以往通过氧化作用断裂核酸带来的弊端[4～5],但其作用的机理、水解体系的优化尚需进一步的探讨.以往对核酸水解作用的研究,主要是通过高效液相色谱(HPLC)[1,6]、化学滴定和…     

Entanglement Dynamics Between Two Atoms Within Different W-like Initial States

We investigate the entanglement dynamics between two atoms which are trapped in an optical cavity with the help of the concurrence and the negativity for two different kinds of normalized W-like initial states. The results show that one of them can suffer the so-called entanglement sudden death (ESD) depending on parameters of the initial state when the optical cavity in the vacuum state, while the other one does not for whatever parameters. However when the initial optical cavity photon number is nonzero, no matter what W-like state as atoms’ initial state, the atoms’ subsystem always undergoes the ESD phenomenon. Meanwhile, by comparing concurrence with negativity, we find that our model gives a concrete example to support the conclusions in the previous reference.     

柚子皮挥发油化学成分分析

使用水蒸气蒸馏法提取柚子皮中的挥发油,利用气相色谱-质谱联用技术对柚子皮化学成分进行分离鉴定,采用色谱峰面积归一化法确定各成分的相对含量。分析结果表明,共检测出62种组分,鉴定了其中的31种组分,占挥发油组分总量的50.0%。主要成分是β-蒎烯、4,4A,5,6,7,8-六氢-4,4A-二甲基-6-(1-甲基亚乙基)-(4R-顺)-2(3H)-萘酮、氧化芳樟醇、(E,E)-3,7,11,15-四甲基-1,6,10,14-十六碳四烯-3-醇。     

Quantum Teleportation Under Different Collective Noise Environment

We investigate that the average fidelity of the standard quantum teleportation communication protocol when the quantum channel is affected by different local collective noise environments frequently encountered in real quantum communication protocol. We show that the quantum teleportation efficiency can be enhanced when the noise is unavoidable by choose the fit Bell state as the quantum channel, especially we can get perfect quantum teleportation efficiency under the local collective Pauli σ_y noise environment. Our work can shed some light on the application of practical standard quantum teleportation communication protocol.