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Kabindra Kafle Yong Bum Park Christopher M. Lee Joshua J. Stapleton Sarah N. Kiemle Daniel J. Cosgrove Seong H. Kim 《Cellulose (London, England)》2017,24(8):3145-3154
The organization of polysaccharides in plant cell walls is important for the mechanics of plant cells. Spectral analysis of cell walls by polarized IR can reveal polysaccharide organization, but may be complicated by dipoles not aligned with the backbone. For instance, analysis of uniaxially-aligned cellulose Iβ film revealed that the dipole transition vector of the 1160 cm?1 band involving stretch vibrations of glycosidic C1–O–C4 linkages is approximately at 30° with respect to the backbone of the cellulose chain, because of coupling with C5–O–C1 bonds in the six-membered rings. In the case of homogalacturonan, the dipole transition vector of the ester carbonyl group vibration (νC=O, 1745 cm?1) is expected to be nearly normal to the homogalacturonan backbone. Using this information and the dichroism equation, the change in net orientation of cell wall polymers upon mechanical stretch was determined by polarized IR analysis. Never-dried abaxial outer epidermal cell walls of the second scale of onion bulb were mechanically stretched along longitudinal or transverse directions with respect to the long axis of the cells and then dried while under mechanical stretch. The average orientations of both 1160 and 1745 cm?1 vibration transition dipoles were rotated by ~5° and ~4°, respectively, along the stretch direction from their initial random distributions upon longitudinal strain by 14%; and by ~4° and ~3°, respectively, upon transverse strain by 12%. These results imply that both cellulose microfibrils and pectins in the cell wall are passively realigned along the stretch direction by external mechanical force. The analytical methodology developed here will be useful to study how cell wall polymers might reorganize during cell wall growth and development. 相似文献
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Christopher M. Lee Ashutosh Mittal Anna L. Barnette Kabindra Kafle Yong Bum Park Heenae Shin David K. Johnson Sunkyu Park Seong H. Kim 《Cellulose (London, England)》2013,20(3):991-1000
Sum-frequency-generation (SFG) vibration spectroscopy is a technique only sensitive to functional groups arranged without centrosymmetry. For crystalline cellulose, SFG can detect the C6H2 and intra-chain hydrogen-bonded OH groups in the crystal. The geometries of these groups are sensitive to the hydrogen bonding network that stabilizes each cellulose polymorph. Therefore, SFG can distinguish cellulose polymorphs (Iβ, II, IIII and IIIII) which have different conformations of the exocyclic hydroxymethylene group or directionalities of glucan chains. The C6H2 asymmetric stretching peaks at 2,944 cm?1 for cellulose Iβ and 2,960 cm?1 for cellulose II, IIII and IIIII corresponds to the trans-gauche (tg) and gauche-trans (gt) conformation, respectively. The SFG intensity of the stretch peak of intra-chain hydrogen-bonded O–H group implies that the chain arrangement in cellulose crystal is parallel in Iβ and IIII, and antiparallel in II and IIIII. 相似文献
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Nanotextured multicrystalline Al‐BSF solar cells reaching 18% conversion efficiency using industrially viable solar cell processes 下载免费PDF全文
Bishal Kafle Abdul Mannan Timo Freund Laurent Clochard Edward Duffy Marc Hofmann Jochen Rentsch Ralf Preu 《固体物理学:研究快报》2015,9(8):448-452
We report recent achievements in adapting industrially used solar cell processes on nanotextured surfaces. Nanostructures were etched into c‐Si surfaces by dry exothermic plasma‐less reaction of F species with Si in atmospheric pressure conditions and then modified using a short post‐etching process. Nanotextured multicrystalline wafers are used to prepare Al‐BSF solar cells using industrially feasible solar cell proc‐ essing steps. In comparison to the reference acidic textured solar cells, the nanostructured cells showed gain in short circuit current (Jsc) of up to 0.8 mA/cm2 and absolute gain in conversion efficiency of up to 0.3%. The best nanotextured solar cell was independently certified to reach the conversion efficiency of 18.0%. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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Cameron Hodges Rudra P. Kafle J. Damon Hoff Jens-Christian Meiners 《Journal of fluorescence》2018,28(2):505-511
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a powerful tool to quantitatively study the diffusion of fluorescently labeled molecules. It allows in principle important questions of macromolecular transport and supramolecular aggregation in living cells to be addressed. However, the crowded environment inside the cells slows diffusion and limits the reservoir of labeled molecules, causing artifacts that arise especially from photobleaching and limit the utility of FCS in these applications. We present a method to compute the time correlation function from weighted photon arrival times, which compensates computationally during the data analysis for the effect of photobleaching. We demonstrate the performance of this method using numerical simulations and experimental data from model solutions. Using this technique, we obtain correlation functions in which the effect of photobleaching has been removed and in turn recover quantitatively accurate mean-square displacements of the fluorophores, especially when deviations from an ideal Gaussian excitation volume are accounted for by using a reference calibration correlation function. This allows quantitative FCS studies of transport processes in challenging environments with substantial photobleaching like in living cells in the future. 相似文献
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Jun Liu Kelton A. Schleyer Tyrel L. Bryan Changjian Xie Gustavo Seabra Yongmei Xu Arjun Kafle Chao Cui Ying Wang Kunlun Yin Benjamin Fetrow Paul K. P. Henderson Peter Z. Fatland Jian Liu Chenglong Li Hua Guo Lina Cui 《Chemical science》2021,12(1):239
Heparanase (HPA) is a critical enzyme involved in the remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and its elevated expression has been linked with diseases such as various types of cancer and inflammation. The detection of heparanase enzymatic activity holds tremendous value in the study of the cellular microenvironment, and search of molecular therapeutics targeting heparanase, however, no structurally defined probes are available for the detection of heparanase activity. Here we present the development of the first ultrasensitive fluorogenic small-molecule probe for heparanase enzymatic activity via tuning the electronic effect of the substrate. The probe exhibits a 756-fold fluorescence turn-on response in the presence of human heparanase, allowing one-step detection of heparanase activity in real-time with a picomolar detection limit. The high sensitivity and robustness of the probe are exemplified in a high-throughput screening assay for heparanase inhibitors.Heparanase, a critical enzyme involved in the remodeling of the extracellular matrix, activates a disaccharide probe HADP to give a strong fluorescence signal. 相似文献
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Kabindra Kafle Xiaoning Xi Christopher M. Lee Bernhard R. Tittmann Daniel J. Cosgrove Yong Bum Park Seong H. Kim 《Cellulose (London, England)》2014,21(2):1075-1086
Cellulose microfibril orientation in plant cell walls changes during cell expansion and development. The cellulose microfibril orientation in the abaxial epidermis of onion scales was studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. Onion epidermal cells in all scales are elongated along the onion bulb axis. AFM images showed that cellulose microfibrils exposed at the innermost surface of the abaxial epidermis are oriented perpendicular to the bulb axis in the outer scales and more dispersed in the inner scales of onion bulb. SFG analyses can determine the orientation of cellulose microfibrils averaged over the entire thickness of the cell wall. We found that the average orientation of cellulose microfibrils inside onion abaxial epidermal cell walls as revealed by SFG is similar to the orientation observed at the innermost cell wall surface by AFM. The capability to determine the average orientation of cellulose microfibrils in intact cell walls will be useful to study how cellulose microfibril orientation is related to biomechanical properties and the growth mechanism of plant cell walls. 相似文献
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Hideki Katayanagi Bhim P. Kafle Takanori Mori Yasuhiro Takabayashi Yoshihiro Kubozono 《Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer》2008,109(9):1590-1598
The photoion yield spectra of an endohedral metallofullerene Pr@C82 were measured in the photon energy range of 100-150 eV by using time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Parent ions Pr@C82+, Pr@C822+ and Pr@C823+ were observed in the mass spectra. The photoion yield spectra of Pr@C822+ showed a broad peak at 120-140 eV that was assigned to the 4d-4f giant dipole resonance of the encapsulated Pr atoms. Absolute photoabsorption cross sections of Pr@C82 were evaluated from the photoion yield spectra to be 37±12 Mb at 110 eV (off-resonance) and 52±13 Mb at 130 eV (on-resonance). These cross sections of Pr@C82 were compared with the results of Ce@C82, the only metallofullerene whose photoionization properties have ever been studied near the 4d edge of the encapsulated metal atom. The enhancement of photoabsorption due to the giant resonance was found to be similar in Pr@C82 and Ce@C82, but there are marked differences in the peak shapes, which can be explained as due to interference effects between the fullerene cage and the encapsulated metal atoms. 相似文献