Endocytic pathways are practical routes for the intracellular delivery of biomacromolecules. Along with this, effective strategies for endosomal cargo release into the cytosol are desired to achieve successful delivery. Focusing on compositional differences between the cell and endosomal membranes and the pH decrease within endosomes, we designed the lipid-sensitive and pH-responsive endosome-lytic peptide HAad. This peptide contains aminoadipic acid (Aad) residues, which serve as a safety catch for preferential permeabilization of endosomal membranes over cell membranes, and His-to-Ala substitutions enhance the endosomolytic activity. The ability of HAad to destabilize endosomal membranes was supported by model studies using large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) and by increased intracellular delivery of biomacromolecules (including antibodies) into live cells. Cerebral ventricle injection of Cre recombinase with HAad led to Cre/loxP recombination in a mouse model, thus demonstrating potential applicability of HAad in vivo. 相似文献
We have developed a simple assessment method for the overlap between spheroidal particles, which neither requires the complex manipulation of vectors and matrices that is indispensable in the ordinary methods, nor is based on a model potential. Moreover, we have developed an evaluation method for the interaction energy arising from the overlap of the steric layer coating spheroidal particles. This is based on a sphere-connected particle model, but some modifications are introduced in order to express an appropriate repulsive interaction energy at the deepest overlapping position. We have investigated the phase change in a magnetic spheroidal particle suspension for a two-dimensional system by means of Monte Carlo simulations. In the case of no external magnetic field, if the magnetic particle-particle interaction is sufficiently strong to favour cluster formation, long raft-like clusters tend to be formed in a dilute situation. With decreasing values of area fraction, a chain-like structure in a dense situation transforms into a raft-like structure within a narrow range of the particle area fraction. Similarly, the raft-like clusters are preferred in a weak applied magnetic field, but an increase in the field strength induces a phase change from a raft-like into a chain-like structure.Highlights of the present paper:
A simple assessment method has been proposed for the overlap between two spheroidal particles.
The particle overlap assessment is free from a complex mathematical manipulation regarding vectors and matrices.
A modified sphere-connected model has been proposed in order to more accurately evaluate a repulsive interaction due to the overlap of the steric layers coating spheroidal particles.
2D Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to elucidate the phenomenon of a phase change by magnetic spheroidal particles on a material plane surface.
A phase change between a raft-like and a chain-like aggregate structure is able to be controlled by the area fraction of particles and an external magnetic field.
Pentacyanoferrate-bound poly(1-vinylimidazole) (PVI[Fe(CN)5]) was selected as a mediator for amperometric creatinine determination based on the reductive H2O2 detection. Creatinine amidohydrolase (CNH), creatine amidohydrolase (CRH), sarcosine oxidase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), and PVI[Fe(CN)5] were crosslinked with poly(ethylene glycol) diglycidyl ether (PEGDGE) on a glassy carbon (GC) electrode for a creatinine biosensor fabrication. Reduction current was monitored at −0.1 V in the presence of creatinine and O2. It is revealed that PVI[Fe(CN)5] is suitable as a mediator for a bioelectrocatalytic reaction of POD, since PVI[Fe(CN)5] neither reacts with reactants nor works as an electron acceptor of SOD. The amounts of PVI[Fe(CN)5], PEGDGE, and enzymes were optimized toward creatinine detection. Nafion as a protecting film successfully prevented the enzyme layer from interferences. The detection limit and linear range in creatinine determination were 12 μM and 12–500 μM (R2 = 0.993), respectively, and the sensitivity was 11 mA cm−2 M−1, which is applicable for urine creatinine tests. The results of the creatinine determination for four urine samples measured with this proposed method were compared with Jaffe method, and a good correlation was obtained between the results. 相似文献
This study aimed to determine the solubility and temperature dependence of methanol and ethanol vapor caused by the difference in the substituents of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-containing polymethacrylate membranes and the spacer length between the backbone and POSS backbone. Vapor sorption of methanol and ethanol was measured at 25°C, 35°C, and 45°C for three kinds of POSS-containing polymer membranes, namely, poly(methacryl isobutyl POSS), poly(methacrylate isobutyl POSS), and poly(methacryl phenyl POSS). The primary structures of the three POSS-containing polymer chains were columnar. The solubility of alcohol vapor on the POSS-containing polymer membranes followed the mechanism of solid adsorption and not the general dissolution diffusion. The sorption amount at all three temperatures was related to the surface area of the cylindrical primary structure and the solid adsorption property of the alcohol molecule of the POSS substituent. The sorption amount increased because of the large surface area and adsorption property of alcohol molecules. Although a typical glassy polymer shows exothermic mixing and a rubbery polymer displays endothermic mixing, the sample with the POSS substituent of isobutyl group exhibited an unusual behavior of endothermic mixing despite being a glassy polymer. 相似文献
The geometrical evolution of the reactant and formation of the photoproduct in the cycloreversion reaction of a diarylethene derivative were probed using time-resolved absorption spectroscopies in the visible to near-infrared and mid-infrared regions. The time-domain vibrational data in the visible region show that the initially formed Franck-Condon state is geometrically relaxed into the minimum in the excited state potential energy surface, concomitantly with the low-frequency coherent vibrations. Theoretical calculations indicate that the nuclear displacement in this coherent vibration is nearly parallel to that in the geometrical relaxation. Time-resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy directly detected the formation of the open-ring isomer with the same time constant as the decrease of the closed-ring isomer in the excited state minimum. This observation reveals that no detectable intermediate, in which the population is accumulated, is present between the excited closed-ring isomer and the open-ring isomer in the ground state. 相似文献
Lactococcus lactis is a gram-positive, normally homolactic fermenter that is known to produce several kinds of membrane associated quinones, which are able to mediate electron transfer to extracellular electron acceptors such as Fe3+, Cu2+ and hexacyanoferrate. Here we show that this bacterium is also capable of performing extracellular electron transfer to anodes by utilizing at least two soluble redox mediators, as suggested by the two-step catalytic current developed. One of these two mediators was herein suggested to be 2-amino-3-dicarboxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (ACNQ), via evaluation of standard redox potential, ability of the bacterium to exploit the quinone when exogenously provided, as well as by high performance liquid chromatography coupled with UV spectrum analysis. During electricity generation, L. lactis slightly deviated from its normal homolactic metabolism by excreting acetate and pyruvate in stoichiometric amounts with respect to the electrical current. In this metabolism, the anode takes on the role of electron sink for acetogenic fermentation. The finding that L. lactis self-catalyses anodic electron transfer by excretion of redox mediators is remarkable as the mechanisms of extracellular electron transfer by pure cultures of gram-positive bacteria had previously never been elucidated. 相似文献
Efficient fluorescence on/off switching of a dyad consisting of a photochromic diarylethene and a fluorescence dye based on excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) was designed and demonstrated. Diarylethenes linked to (2-(2-methoxy-5-methylphenyl)benzothiazol-6-yl)- and (2-(2-hydroxy-5-methylphenyl)benzothiazol-6-yl)-9,9-dioctylfluorene moieties (1a and 2a, respectively) exhibited fluorescence on/off switching upon alternating irradiation with ultraviolet and visible light in various solvents. The fluorescence on/off contrast of 2a was found to be higher than that of 1a in n-hexane because the overlap integral between the absorption spectrum of the diarylethene closed-ring form and the fluorescence spectrum of 2a is larger than that of 1a. Diarylethene 2a exhibited green fluorescence with large Stokes shift in n-hexane, which is ascribed to the ESIPT process from the enol form to the keto form. In contrast, the fluorescence of 2a in N,N-dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) was mainly observed as blue fluorescence from enol form, while diarylethene 1a exhibited blue fluorescence in n-hexane and DMSO. The fluorescence on/off contrast of 2a in n-hexane was higher than that in DMSO because of the difference in the spectral overlaps in n-hexane and DMSO. 相似文献
A triangulation of a closed surface is said to be d-covered if all of its edges are covered by vertices of degree d. We shall give constructive characterizations of 5- and 6-covered triangulations.
Received: July 17, 1998?Final version received: January 12, 2000 相似文献
The influence of halogen substituents on the catalytic oxidation of 2,4,6-trihalogenated phenols (TrXPs) by iron(III)-porphyrin/KHSO? catalytic systems was investigated. Iron(III)-5,10,15,20-tetrakis(p-hydroxyphenyl)porphyrin (FeTHP) and its supported variants were employed, where the supported catalysts were synthesized by introducing FeTHP into hydroquinone-derived humic acids via formaldehyde poly-condensation. F (TrFP), Cl (TrCP), Br (TrBP) and I (TrIP) were examined as halogen substituents for TrXPs. Although the supported catalysts significantly enhanced the degradation and dehalogenation of TrFP and TrCP, the oxidation of TrBP and TrIP was not enhanced, compared to the FeTHP catalytic system. These results indicate that the degree of oxidation of TrXPs is strongly dependent on the types of halogen substituent. The order of dehalogenation levels for halogen substituents in TrXPs was F > Cl > Br > I, consistent with their order of electronegativity. The electronegativity of a halogen substituent affects the nucleophilicity of the carbon to which it is attached. The levels of oxidation products in the reaction mixtures were analyzed by GC/MS after extraction with n-hexane. The most abundant dimer product from TrFP via 2,6-difluoroquinone is consistent with a scenario where TrXP, with a more electronegative halogen substituent, is readily oxidized, while less electronegative halogen substituents are oxidized less readily by iron(III)-porphyrin/KHSO? catalytic systems. 相似文献