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The current work therefore sheds light on the implementation of rational morphogenetic approaches to crystalline materials with tailored complex architectures.Cell-membrane-coated nanoparticles have emerged as a promising antitumor therapeutic strategy. However, the immunologic mechanism remains elusive, and there are still crucial issues to be addressed including tumor-homing capacity, immune incompatibility, and immunogenicity. Here, we reported a tumor-associated macrophage membrane (TAMM) derived from the primary tumor with unique antigen-homing affinity capacity and immune compatibility. TAMM could deplete the CSF1 secreted by tumor cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME), blocking the interaction between TAM and cancer cells. Especially, after coating TAMM to upconversion nanoparticle with conjugated photosensitizer (NPR@TAMM), NPR@TAMM-mediated photodynamic immunotherapy switched the activation of macrophages from an immunosuppressive M2-like phenotype to a more inflammatory M1-like state, induced immunogenic cell death, and consequently enhanced the antitumor immunity efficiency via activation of antigen-presenting cells to stimulate the production of tumor-specific effector T cells in metastatic tumors. This TAM-membrane-based photodynamic immunotherapy approach offers a new strategy for personalized tumor therapy.The excited-state dynamics of a spiro-fused terrylene-3,411,12-bis(dicarboximide) (TDI) dimer (sTDI2) in toluene and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (mTHF) were investigated as a function of temperature using femtosecond- and nanosecond-transient absorption spectroscopy, as well as two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. The spiro conjugation and the corresponding geometry of this compound guarantee a short intermonomer distance along with a partial orbital overlap between the orthogonal TDI π-electron systems, providing electronic coupling between the TDIs. Photoexcitation of sTDI2 in toluene, a low dielectric solvent, at 295 K, results in the ultrafast formation of a state composed of a coherent mixture of singlet 1(S1S0), multiexciton 1(T1T1), and charge-transfer (CT) electronic characters. This mixed species decays to decorrelated triplet states on the nanosecond timescale, completing the process of intramolecular singlet fission (SF) in sTDI2. Upon decreasing the temperature from 295 to 200 K, the contribution e electronically mixed excited state of sTDI2 and thus the fate of the SF process.Carbohydrate chains are ubiquitous in the complex molecular processes of life. These highly diverse chains are recognized by a variety of protein receptors, enabling glycans to regulate many biological functions. High-resolution structures of protein-glycoligand complexes reveal the atomic details necessary to understand this level of molecular recognition and inform application-focused scientific and engineering pursuits. Selleckchem AEB071 When experimental challenges hinder high-throughput determination of quality structures, computational tools can, in principle, fill the gap. In this work, we introduce GlycanDock, a residue-centric protein-glycoligand docking refinement algorithm developed within the Rosetta macromolecular modeling and design software suite. We performed a benchmark docking assessment using a set of 109 experimentally determined protein-glycoligand complexes as well as 62 unbound protein structures. The GlycanDock algorithm can sample and discriminate among protein-glycoligand models of native-like structural accuracy with statistical reliability from starting structures of up to 7 Å root-mean-square deviation in the glycoligand ring atoms. We show that GlycanDock-refined models qualitatively replicated the known binding specificity of a bacterial carbohydrate-binding module. Finally, we present a protein-glycoligand docking pipeline for generating putative protein-glycoligand complexes when only the glycoligand sequence and unbound protein structure are known. In combination with other carbohydrate modeling tools, the GlycanDock docking refinement algorithm will accelerate research in the glycosciences.Vapor-liquid interfacial properties of n-heptane/nitrogen at various temperatures and pressures in the ranges of 270-648 K and 10-60 bar were investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Additionally, density gradient theory (DGT) was used to predict the binary system interface for qualitative comparison purposes. Results show that surface tension decreases with the increases in both temperature and pressure, but the rate of decrease against the latter is smaller. The interface thickness, which is of the order of several nanometers, was also shown to have a much stronger dependence on temperature and almost invariant with respect to pressure. MD also reveals the phenomenon of nitrogen enrichment in the outer interfacial region at low subcritical temperatures. A sensitivity analysis of influence parameters on DGT results revealed that surface tension values are a stronger function of n-heptane influence parameter and almost invariant with respect to nitrogen influence parameter. The velocity distribution function (VDF) shows that the molecules in and away from the interface follow the Maxwellian distribution of kinetic theory at subcritical conditions. The VDF of the velocity component normal to the interface of the evaporated n-heptane molecules adjacent to the interface exhibits a deviation from the Maxwellian distribution. The VDF of all three components of velocity of n-heptane molecules at supercritical conditions exhibits a departure from the Maxwellian distribution as well.Raman multivariate curve resolution is used to decompose the vibrational spectra of aqueous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) into pure water, dilute H2O2, and concentrated H2O2 spectral components. The dilute spectra reveal four sub-bands in the OH stretch region, assigned to the OH stretch and Fermi resonant bend overtone of H2O2, and two nonequivalent OH groups on water molecules that donate a hydrogen bond to H2O2. At high concentrations, a spectral component resembling pure H2O2 emerges. Our results further demonstrate that H2O2 perturbs the structure of water significantly less than either methanol or sodium chloride of the same concentration, as evidenced by comparing the hydration-shell spectra of tert-butyl alcohol dissolved in the three aqueous solutions.