Photo-crosslinkable elastomeric protein-derived supramolecular peptide hydrogel with controlled therapeutic CO-release

Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (37) ◽  
pp. 17327-17333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inhye Kim ◽  
Woo-Young Bang ◽  
Won Ho Park ◽  
Eun Hee Han ◽  
Eunji Lee

Visible light-mediated crosslinkable CO-releasing peptide hydrogel with enhanced mechanical strength and stability was developed by fibrillar assembly of elastomeric protein-derived short peptides.

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Shih ◽  
Hung-Yi Liu ◽  
Chien-Chi Lin

A biomimetic PEG-peptide hydrogel was developed through tyrosine-assisted visible-light thiol-norbornene crosslinking. Soluble tyrosine improves crosslinking and enhances the cytocompatibility of hydrogels.


2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 430-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natashya Falcone ◽  
Tsuimy Shao ◽  
Xiaoyi Sun ◽  
Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz

Stimuli-responsive peptide gels are a growing class of functional biomaterials that are involved in many applications in research. Here, we present a novel di-peptide hydrogel from the compound Boc–Phe–Trp–OH in various buffer and pH conditions. We examine the effects of different stimuli, including temperature and pH, on the mechanical strength of the gels through frequency rheology studies. We found that this hydrogelator is highly pH dependent, only forming a gel in a narrow range of pH 6–7. This hydrogelator hold promise for the development of new stimuli-responsive biomaterials for specific applications that require this type of specific stimuli.


1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Wakasa ◽  
H. Urabe ◽  
M. Taira ◽  
T. Hirose ◽  
M. Yamaki

2021 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Marek Markowicz ◽  
Emil Smyk ◽  
Robert Smusz

LEDs are widely used light sources. Their main advantages are low power consumption, mechanical strength, high luminous efficacy, and a lifetime exceeding 50 000 hours. However, compared to other light sources, they are more sensitive to high temperatures. Heat is generated by converting electrical energy into radiant energy. The share of heat in this transformation describes the efficiency, but in the case of light sources, efficiency is not one of the basic parameters because only a part of the radiation produced is visible light, which interests the recipients. However, the temperature has a big influence on the properties and lifetime of LEDs. This article presents the results of temperature measurements of the LED lamp.


Author(s):  
Shawn Williams ◽  
Xiaodong Zhang ◽  
Susan Lamm ◽  
Jack Van’t Hof

The Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope (STXM) is well suited for investigating metaphase chromosome structure. The absorption cross-section of soft x-rays having energies between the carbon and oxygen K edges (284 - 531 eV) is 6 - 9.5 times greater for organic specimens than for water, which permits one to examine unstained, wet biological specimens with resolution superior to that attainable using visible light. The attenuation length of the x-rays is suitable for imaging micron thick specimens without sectioning. This large difference in cross-section yields good specimen contrast, so that fewer soft x-rays than electrons are required to image wet biological specimens at a given resolution. But most imaging techniques delivering better resolution than visible light produce radiation damage. Soft x-rays are known to be very effective in damaging biological specimens. The STXM is constructed to minimize specimen dose, but it is important to measure the actual damage induced as a function of dose in order to determine the dose range within which radiation damage does not compromise image quality.


Author(s):  
C. Jacobsen ◽  
J. Fu ◽  
S. Mayer ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
S. Williams

In scanning luminescence x-ray microscopy (SLXM), a high resolution x-ray probe is used to excite visible light emission (see Figs. 1 and 2). The technique has been developed with a goal of localizing dye-tagged biochemically active sites and structures at 50 nm resolution in thick, hydrated biological specimens. Following our initial efforts, Moronne et al. have begun to develop probes based on biotinylated terbium; we report here our progress towards using microspheres for tagging.Our initial experiments with microspheres were based on commercially-available carboxyl latex spheres which emitted ~ 5 visible light photons per x-ray absorbed, and which showed good resistance to bleaching under x-ray irradiation. Other work (such as that by Guo et al.) has shown that such spheres can be used for a variety of specific labelling applications. Our first efforts have been aimed at labelling ƒ actin in Chinese hamster ovarian (CHO) cells. By using a detergent/fixative protocol to load spheres into cells with permeabilized membranes and preserved morphology, we have succeeded in using commercial dye-loaded, spreptavidin-coated 0.03μm polystyrene spheres linked to biotin phalloidon to label f actin (see Fig. 3).


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 3693-3697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiu-Jian Ji ◽  
Zhi-Qiang Zhu ◽  
Li-Jin Xiao ◽  
Dong Guo ◽  
Xiao Zhu ◽  
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A novel, green and efficient visible-light-promoted decarboxylative aminoalkylation reaction of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines with N-aryl glycines has been described.


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