Tribological behaviors of a novel trilayer nanofilm: the influence of outer chain length and interlayer thickness

Polydopamine (coded as PDA) is reported to be very adhesive and reactive due to the attached functional groups, such as amine and hydroxyl groups. In this work, taking advantage of the condensation between Si–OH of the hydroxylated alkyltrichlorosilane (ATS) and C–OH on PDA surface, ATS molecules with different chain carbon number of 10, 14 and 18 were grafted onto the 3‐aminopropyl triethoxysilane (APTES)‐PDA dual‐layer film, which was composed of PDA outerlayer and APTES underlayer, on Si substrate. Thus, hydrophobic trilayer films coded as APTES‐PDA‐ATS were prepared successfully. In order to reveal the dependence of the tribological behaviors upon the microstructures of the film, tribological experiments were conducted on an atomic force microscope and a ball‐on‐plate tribometer. Experimental results showed that the (micro‐) friction reducing (characterized by a parameter of relative friction coefficient or friction coefficient, RFC or FC) and macro‐wear resisting (characterized by anti‐wear life) behaviors were related with the chain length of outerlayer and the PDA thickness. Specifically, on one hand, as the chain length increases, RFC/FC decreased and macro anti‐wear life lengthened; on the other hand, as PDA gets thicker, RFC increased and the anti‐wear life enhanced. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A comparative study of quantitative structure-activity relationship methods based on gallic acid derivatives

By using hologram quantitative structure-activity relationship (HQSAR) and comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) methods, the relationships between the structures of 49 gallic acid derivatives and their analgesic activity have been investigated to yield statistically reliable models with considerable predictive power. The best HQSAR model was generated using atoms, bond and connectivity as fragment distinction parameters and fragment size 5-7 from a hologram length of 307 with 3 components. High conventional r2 (r2 = 0.825) and cross-validation r2 (r2(cv) = 0.726) values were obtained. CoMFA analyses varying lattice size and location, grid spacing, probe charges and using, Tripos standard and Indicator force field were performed. The best model was developed with 4 components using sp3-hybridized carbon atom with +1.0 charge as probe, grid spacing (2 A), lattice offset (1.0, 3.0, -2.5). The CoMFA model showed a conventional correlation coefficient r2 of 0.889 and across-validation r2(cv) equals to 0.633. The robustness and predictive ability of the HQSAR and CoMFA models have been validated by means of an external test set. The results indicate that both models possess high statistical quality in the prediction of analgesic potency of novel gallic acid analogs.     

毛细管电泳涂层柱技术的进展

毛细管电泳涂层柱是解决蛋白质在毛细管壁吸附的最有效的方法。较为系统地综述了毛细管电泳涂层柱的几种制作方法,指出了毛细管电泳涂层柱（包括毛细管电色谱柱）的发展趋势,３９篇。     

在镉盐胁迫下扇贝鳃组织应激蛋白的研究

采用透射电子显微镜观察了虾夷盘扇贝(Patinopecten yessoensis)鳃组织细胞的超微结构, 发现镉盐能胁迫鳃组织中的腮丝、细胞核和线粒体产生病变. 利用双向凝胶电泳(2D-PAGE)优化分离扇贝鳃组织的全蛋白, 获得约800个蛋白质斑点, 并筛选出37个由于镉盐胁迫而产生的差异蛋白质斑点. 选用基质辅助激光解吸离子化-飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)技术和数据库检索鉴定差异蛋白, 结果发现7个与镉毒性密切相关的蛋白质, 即热休克蛋白70和β-淀粉酶等上调蛋白质及原肌球蛋白、肌动蛋白和钙活化核苷酸酶1等下调蛋白质. 此外, 还发现转录调节子Crp/Fnr家族为低表达蛋白质, 而ABC转运子为高表达蛋白质. 在这些差异蛋白中, 部分蛋白质适合作为连续监测流动海水中镉污染程度及评价其危害性的蛋白指示物.     

Prediction of membrane spanning segments and topology in β‐barrel membrane proteins at better accuracy

Prediction of membrane spanning segments in β‐barrel outer membrane proteins (OMP) and their topology is an important problem in structural and functional genomics. In this work, we propose a method based on radial basis networks for predicting the number of β‐strands in OMPs and identifying their membrane spanning segments. Our method showed a leave‐one‐out cross validation accuracy of 96% in a set of 28 OMPs, which have the range of 8–22 β‐strand segments. The β‐strand segments in OMPs and the residues in membrane spanning segments are correctly predicted with the accuracy of 96% and 87%, respectively. We have developed a web server, TMBETAPRED‐RBF for predicting the transmembrane β‐strands from amino acid sequence and it is available at http://rbf.bioinfo.tw/～sachen/tmrbf.html . We suggest that our method could be an effective tool for predicting the membrane spanning regions and topology of β‐barrel membrane proteins. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 2010     

表面等离子共振技术测定生长抑素含量

应用表面等离子共振(SPR)技术建立了一种快速检测生长抑素(SST)含量的方法, 在pH=5.0, SST浓度为75 μg/mL的最佳偶联条件下, SST在CM5芯片上的偶联值为1231.7 Response unit(RU). 选择117.7 nmol/L作为固定的大分子量抗体浓度, 用抗原-抗体-抗原结合法检测SST纯品, 在20~2000 pg范围内, SST纯品含量和RU值之间可建立直线相关的标准曲线, R=-0.824, p<0.05, 变异系数CV=1.3%. 所建立的方法测定SST含量的范围为20~2000 pg, 重复性好且可随时检测, 有望用于SST的临床即时检测.     

Biomass Inspired Nitrogen Doped Porous Carbon Anode with High Performance for Lithium Ion Batteries

Ginkgo leave, a naturally abundant resource, has been successfully employed as the raw material to prepare nitrogen doped porous carbon (NDPC) materials. The preparation of the porous carbon does not involve assistance of any activation or template technique. The as‐obtained NDPC shows favorable features for electrochemical energy storage, which can not only provide multiple sites for the storage and insertion of Li ions, but also facilitate rapid mass transport of electrons and Li ions. As a result, the NDPC when evaluated as an anode material for lithium ion batteries delivers high reversible capacity (505 mAh·g^?1 at 0.1 C), excellent rate capability (190 mAh·g^?1 at 10 C). These favorable properties suggest that the NDPC can be a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries (LIBs).     

Rapid “one-pot” preparation of polymeric monolith via photo-initiated thiol-acrylate polymerization for capillary liquid chromatography

A facile approach was exploited for fast preparation of polymer-based monoliths in UV-transparent fused-silica capillaries via “one-pot” photo-initiated thiol-acrylate polymerization reaction of dipentaerythritolpenta-/hexaacrylate (DPEPA) and 1-octadecanethiol (ODT) in the presence of porogenic solvents (1-butanol and ethylene glycol). Due to relative insensitivity of oxygen inhibition in thiol-ene free-radical polymerization, the polymerization could be performed within 5 min. The effects of composition of prepolymerization solution on the morphology and permeability of poly(ODT-co-DPEPA) monoliths were investigated in detail by adjusting the content of monomer and binary porogen ratio. The physical properties of poly(ODT-co-DPEPA) monoliths were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) and nitrogen adsorption/desorption measurement. The evaluation of chromatographic performance was carried out by capillary liquid chromatography (cLC). The results indicated that the poly(ODT-co-DPEPA) monolith was homogeneous and permeable, and also possessed a typical reversed-phase retention mechanism in cLC with high efficiency (∼75,000 N m⁻¹) for separation of alkylbenzenes. Eventually, the further separation of tryptic digest of proteins by cLC tandem mass spectrometry (cLC-MS/MS) demonstrated its potential in the analysis of biological samples.