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The investigation provides insight into the specific role of hot electron and thermal effects in plasmonic catalysis, which is critically important for exploiting the highly localized fast plasmonic thermal effect and for designing energy-efficient plasmonic catalysts.We report a benchmark-quality equilibrium-like structure of the XeOCS complex, obtained from microwave spectroscopy. The experiments are supported by a wide array of highly accurate calculations, expanding the analysis to the complexes of He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Hg with OCS. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/dimethindene-maleate.html We investigate the trends in the structures and binding energies of the complexes. The assumption that the structure of the monomers does not change significantly upon forming a weakly bound complex is also tested. An attempt at reproducing the r structure of the XeOCS complex with correlated wavefunction theory is made, highlighting the importance of relativistic effects, large basis sets, and inclusion of diffuse functions in extrapolation recipes.Ubiquitin specific protease 7 (USP7) has attracted increasing attention because of its multifaceted roles in different tumor types. The crystal structures of USP7-inhibitor complexes resolved recently provide reliable models for computational structure-based drug design (SBDD) towards USP7. How to accurately estimate USP7-ligand binding affinity is quite critical to guarantee the reliability of SBDD. In this study, we assessed the reliability of multiple computational methods to the binding affinity prediction for a series of USP7 inhibitors with the pyrimidinone scaffold, including molecular docking scoring, MM/PB(GB)SA, and umbrella sampling (US). It was found that the accuracy of the evaluated computational methods for binding affinity prediction follows the order US-based method > MM/PB(GB)SA > Glide XP scoring. The calculation results demonstrate that incorporating protein flexibility through induced-fit docking or ensemble docking cannot improve the performance of the Glide scoring based on rigid-receptor docking. For the MM/PB(GB)SA methods, the choice of the protein structure and the calculation procedure has a marked impact on the predictions. More importantly, we discovered for the first time that there are significant differences in the dissociation pathways of strong-binding inhibitors and weak-binding inhibitors of USP7, which may be used as a new criterion to judge whether an inhibitor is a strong binder or not. It is expected that our work can provide valuable guidance on the design and discovery of potent USP7 inhibitors.Herein we report the synthesis and X-ray characterization of a gold(iii) complex of 1-hexylcytosine via N(3). The AuCl3N complexes stack on top of each other by reciprocal [AuCl] regium bonding interactions. After the first example 35 years ago, this is the second available structure of a cytosine nucleobase model complexed to gold(iii).Six N-(o-methoxyphenyl)trifluoroacetimidate glycosyl donors have been synthesized and their role as glycosyl donors has been investigated. The donors were synthesized with complete β-selectivity, except in one case, and were found to be stable. When Bi(OTf)3, Fe(OTf)2, and Zn(OTf)2 were employed as catalysts, the glycosylations were found to be highly α-selective in Et2O. The selectivity and reaction rate changed with a change in the acceptor reactivity.In this work, we report a photocontrolled and self-powered DNA walking machine with bipedal DNAzyme walkers for intracellular microRNA imaging.The Au-Hg amalgam anchored on the surface of reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (Au-Hg/rGO) has been synthesized successfully and characterized by various techniques such as transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The Au-Hg/rGO nanocomposites were found to possess excellent peroxidase-like catalytic activity and can quickly catalyze the oxidation of colorless 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) to blue oxTMB in the presence of H2O2. The obvious color change offered accurate determination of the H2O2 concentration by recording the absorbance at 652 nm using a UV-vis spectrophotometer. The linear response range for H2O2 was from 5 μM to 100 μM and the detection limit was 3.25 μM (S/N = 3). Furthermore, a kinetic study indicated that the catalytic behavior of Au-Hg/rGO nanocomposites followed the typical Michaelis-Menten theory and Au-Hg/rGO nanocomposites showed good affinity for H2O2. We envision that the simple and sensitive colorimetric detection system holds great promising applications in clinical diagnostics and food and environment monitoring.We report on nanopatterned YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) direct current superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) based on grain boundary Josephson junctions. The nanoSQUIDs are fabricated by epitaxial growth of 120 nm-thick films of the high-transition temperature cuprate superconductor YBCO via pulsed laser deposition on MgO bicrystal substrates with 24° misorientation angle, followed by sputtering of dAu = 65 nm thick Au. Nanopatterning is performed by Ga focused ion beam (FIB) milling. The SQUID performance is comparable to devices on SrTiO3 (STO), as demonstrated by electric transport and noise measurements at 4.2 K. MgO has orders of magnitude smaller dielectric permittivity than STO; i.e., one may avoid Au as a resistively shunting layer to reduce the intrinsic thermal flux noise of the nanoSQUIDs. However, we find that the Au layer is important for avoiding degradation during FIB milling. Hence, we compare devices with different dAu produced by thinning the Au layer via Ar ion milling after FIB patterning. We find that the reduction of dAu yields an increase in junction resistance, however at the expense of a reduction of the critical current and increase in SQUID inductance. This results in an estimated thermal flux noise that is almost independent of dAu. However, for two devices on MgO with 65 nm-thick Au, we find an order of magnitude lower low-frequency excess noise as compared to nanoSQUIDs on STO or those on MgO with reduced dAu. For one of those devices we obtain with bias-reversal readout ultra-low flux noise of ∼175 nΦ0 Hz-1/2 down to ∼10 Hz.