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The combined strategy of surface-defect-induced ECL and synergetic-effect-enhanced ECL would enable promising biorelated application of NIR-II ECL.Macrocycles, including macrocyclic peptides, have shown promise for targeting challenging protein-protein interactions (PPIs). One PPI of high interest is between Kelch-like ECH-Associated Protein-1 (KEAP1) and Nuclear Factor (Erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2). Guided by X-ray crystallography, NMR, modeling, and machine learning, we show that the full 20 nM binding affinity of Nrf2 for KEAP1 can be recapitulated in a cyclic 7-mer peptide, c[(D)-β-homoAla-DPETGE]. This compound was identified from the Nrf2-derived linear peptide GDEETGE (KD = 4.3 μM) solely by optimizing the conformation of the cyclic compound, without changing any KEAP1 interacting residue. X-ray crystal structures were determined for each linear and cyclic peptide variant bound to KEAP1. Despite large variations in affinity, no obvious differences in the conformation of the peptide binding residues or in the interactions they made with KEAP1 were observed. However, analysis of the X-ray structures by machine learning showed that locations of strain in the bound ligand could be identified through patterns of subangstrom distortions from the geometry observed for unstrained linear peptides. We show that optimizing the cyclic peptide affinity was driven partly through conformational preorganization associated with a proline substitution at position 78 and with the geometry of the noninteracting residue Asp77 and partly by decreasing strain in the ETGE motif itself. This approach may have utility in dissecting the trade-off between conformational preorganization and strain in other ligand-receptor systems. We also identify a pair of conserved hydrophobic residues flanking the core DxETGE motif which play a conformational role in facilitating the high-affinity binding of Nrf2 to KEAP1.The electrocatalytic activity for CO2 reduction is greatly enhanced for Co complexes with pyridyldiimine-based ligands through the stepwise integration of three synergistic substituent effects extended conjugation, electron-withdrawing ability, and intramolecular electrostatic effects. The stepwise incorporation of these effects into the catalyst structures results in a series of complexes that show an atypical inverse scaling relationship for CO2 reduction-the maximum activity of the resulting catalysts increases as the onset potentials are driven positive due to the ligand electronic substituent effects. Incorporating all three effects simultaneously into the catalyst structure results in a Co complex [Co(PDI-PyCH3+I-)] with dramatically enhanced activity for CO2 reduction, operating with over an order of magnitude higher activity (TOFcat = 4.1 × 104 s-1) and ∼0.2 V more positive catalytic onset (Eonset = -1.52 V vs Fc+/0) compared to the parent complex, an intrinsic activity parameter TOF0 = 6.3 × 10-3 s-1, and >95% Faradaic efficiency for CO production in acetonitrile with 11 M water. This makes [Co(PDI-PyCH3+I-)] among the most active molecular catalysts reported for the CO2 reduction reaction. Our work highlights a promising catalyst design strategy for molecular CO2RR catalysts in which catalytic ability is enhanced by tuning three synergistic substituent effects simultaneously in a single catalyst structure.The natural formation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) via biotic and abiotic pathways in water and soil media contributes to the biogeochemical cycle of silver metal in the environment. However, the formation of AgNPs in the atmosphere has not been reported. Here, we describe a previously unreported source of AgNPs via the reduction of Ag(I) by SO2 in the atmosphere, especially in moist environments, using multipronged advanced analytical and surface techniques. The rapid reduction of Ag(I) in the atmospheric aqueous phase was mainly caused by the sulfite ions formed from the dissolution of SO2 in water, which contributed to the formation of AgNPs and was consistent with the Finke-Watzky model with a major contribution of the reduction-nucleation process. Sunlight irradiation excited SO2 to form triplet SO2, which reacted with water to form H2SO3 and greatly enhanced Ag(I) reduction and AgNP formation. UPF 1069 PARP inhibitor Different pH values affected the speciation of Ag(I) and S(IV), which were jointly involved in the reduction of Ag(I). The formation of AgNPs was also observed in the atmospheric gas phase via direct reduction of Ag(I) by SO2(gas), which occurred even in 50 ppbv SO2(gas). The natural occurrence of AgNPs in the atmosphere may also be involved in silver corrosion, AgNP transformation and regeneration, detoxification of gaseous pollutants, and the sulfur cycle in the environment.Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) could provide vast amounts of data at the temporal-spatial scale in heterogeneous biological specimens, which challenges us to segment accurately suborgans/microregions from complex MSI data. Several pipelines had been proposed for MSI spatial segmentation in the past decade. More importantly, data filtering was found to be an efficient procedure to improve the outcomes of MSI segmentation pipelines. It is not clear, however, how the filtering procedure affects the MSI segmentation. An improved pipeline was established by elaborating the filtering prioritization and filtering algorithm. Lipidomic-characteristic-based MSI data of a whole-body mouse fetus was used to evaluate the established pipeline on localization of the physiological position of suborgans by comparing with three commonly used pipelines and commercial SCiLS Lab software. Two structural measurements were used to quantify the performances of the pipelines including the percentage of abnormal edge pixel (PAEP) and CHAOS. Our results demonstrated that the established pipeline outperformed the other pipelines in visual inspection, spatial consistence, time-cost, and robustness analysis. For example, the dorsal pallium (isocortex) and hippocampal formation (Hpf) regions, midbrain, cerebellum, and brainstem on the mouse brain were annotated and located by the established pipeline. As a generic pipeline, the established pipeline could help with the accurate assessment and screening of drug/chemical-induced targeted organs and exploration of the progression and molecular mechanisms of diseases. The filter-based strategy is expected to become a critical component in the standard operating procedure of MSI data sets.