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Dynamic protein regulations such as hypoxia-induced CA-IX accumulation can also be detected. In addition, by two-photon excitation with an 800 nm laser, cell-selective labeling can also be achieved with spatially controlled irradiation. Our method circumvents the cytotoxicity of UV light and obviates the need for introducing external reporters with "click chemistries". We believe that this approach of fluorescence labeling of endogenous protein by bioorthogonal photoirradiation opens up exciting opportunities for discoveries and mechanistic interrogation in chemical biology.The Paternò-Büchi (PB) reaction is a common organic reaction in which a carbonyl radical formed by exposure to UV radiation reacts with an alkene to form an oxetane ring. Recent analytical applications of this reaction have included the determination of C═C bond position in lipid fatty acyl tails using tandem mass spectrometry. Our group has recently investigated methods for structurally modifying steroid isomers to improve their identification and resolution using ion mobility spectrometry. I-BET151 Herein, we report the first application of the Paternò-Büchi reaction to form steroid oxetanes using a simple, low-cost, and high efficiency method with a low pressure mercury lamp. This methodology is performed on several endogenous steroid isomers, resulting in unique ion mobility spectra that provide a unique fingerprint for each. These fingerprint spectra can add confidence in identification of those compounds, especially in complex biological matrixes. Testosterone and epitestosterone, an epimer pair commonly interrogated in a number of applications such as for their use as performance enhancing drugs, displayed one and three unique ion mobility peaks, respectively. These spectra and their measured collision cross sections (CCS) allow for unambiguous differentiation of these and several other steroid isomer groups analyzed in this work. Finally, multiple anabolic androgenic steroids prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency were tested with this method and resulted in unique CCS for their PB reaction products. This approach can offer improved confidence in their identification as well as for many other banned substances.A crucial step in the gas-phase formation of ammonia in the interstellar medium (ISM) is the reaction of NH2+ with molecular hydrogen. Understanding the electronic structure of the participating species in this reaction and the evaluation of the rate coefficients at interstellar temperatures are, therefore, critical to gain new insights into the mechanisms of formation of interstellar ammonia. We present here the first theoretical results of the rate coefficients of this reaction as a function of temperatures relevant to the ISM, computed using transition-state theory. The results are in reasonable agreement with recent experimental data. This exothermic reaction features a tiny barrier which is primarily a consequence of zero-point energy corrections. The results demonstrate that quantum mechanical tunneling and core-electron correlations play significant roles in determining the rate of the reaction. The noteworthy failure of popular density functionals to describe this reaction is also highlighted.The subset of the proteome that contains enzymes in their catalytically active form can be interrogated by using probes targeted toward individual specific enzymes. A subset of such enzymes are proteases that are frequently studied with activity-based probes, small inhibitors equipped with a detectable tag, commonly a fluorophore. Due to the spectral overlap of these commonly used fluorophores, multiplex analysis becomes limited. To overcome this, we developed a series of protease-selective lanthanide-labeled probes compatible with mass cytometry giving us the ability to monitor the activity of multiple proteases in parallel. Using these probes, we were able to identify the distribution of four proteases with different active site geometries in three cell lines and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. This provides a framework for the use of mass cytometry for multiplexed enzyme activity detection.Equations of state (EoS) for fluids have been a staple of engineering design and practice for over a century. Available EoS are based on the fitting of a closed-form analytical expression to suitable experimental data. The mathematical structure and the underlying physical model significantly restrain the applicability and accuracy of the resulting EoS. This contribution explores the issues surrounding the substitution of machine-learned models for analytical EoS. In particular, we describe, as a proof of concept, the effectiveness of a machine-learned model to replicate the statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT-VR Mie) EoS for pure fluids. To quantify the effectiveness of machine-learning techniques, a large set of pseudodata is obtained from the EoS and used to train the machine-learning models. We employ artificial neural networks and Gaussian process regression to correlate and predict thermodynamic properties such as critical pressure and temperature, vapor pressures, and densities of pure model fluids; these are performed on the basis of molecular descriptors. The comparisons between the machine-learned EoS and the surrogate data set suggest that the proposed approach shows promise as a viable technique for the correlation and prediction of thermophysical properties of fluids.Heat stress is a major abiotic stress that significantly affects plant growth and productivity. Plants have, however, evolved complex adaptive mechanisms to cope with heat stress. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important molecules that regulate gene expression through the post-transcriptional degradation of target mRNA molecules or by repressing translation. Plant miRNAs play essential roles in development and a variety of stress responses. Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies have enabled the identification and characterization of an increasing number of heat-responsive miRNAs in diverse plant species. Heat-regulated miRNAs combined with their target genes constitute large regulatory networks that control various metabolic pathways, including protein refolding, antioxidant defense, maintenance of photosynthetic systems, protection of reproductive tissues, regulation of flowering time, and miRNA biogenesis. In this review, we summarize the information acquired to date about the significance of plant miRNAs and their target genes in heat stress tolerance, thereby helping to identify the regulatory mechanisms that underlie heat stress responses in plants.