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The findings presented here provide a framework for understanding the sequence-encoded conformations of synthetic polyampholytes and intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs).This unique case highlights the electrophysiologic management and risk assessment of sudden cardiac death in a 35-year-old woman with a history of D-transposition of the great arteries status post-Mustard atrial switch repair.A 45-year-old man was referred for radiofrequency catheter ablation of narrow QRS tachycardia that terminated with intravenous adenosine. A 12-lead electrocardiogram showed no baseline pre-excitation. The echocardiogram was essentially normal. The electrophysiological study showed a normal atrial-His interval of 110 ms and a His-ventricular interval of 44 ms during sinus rhythm. An anterograde study demonstrated no dual atrioventricular nodal physiology. Atrial pacing protocols easily and reproducibly induced a narrow QRS tachycardia. What is the mechanism of the tachycardia?There is strong evidence in support of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) with concomitant left atrial (LA) posterior wall (PW) isolation (PWI) for the treatment of patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (persAF). While this may be achieved using surgical and catheter-based strategies, there is growing interest in performing this approach using the cryoballoon. There are several potential advantages to this strategy. First, lesions created using the current-generation cryoballoons are typically large and durable. Second, cryoballoon ablation offers a simple technique to directly ablate and debulk the LAPW. Moreover, some consider cryoenergy a safer modality specifically with regard to collateral structures (ie, the esophagus). Based on the available data, cryoballoon PVI + PWI is associated with greater intraprocedural AF terminations and reductions in long-term AF recurrence (typically by ~20%), as compared to PVI alone in patients with persAF, but with similar rates of adverse events. As such, PVI + PWI has emerged as a significant predictor of freedom from recurrent AF (odds ratio 3.67, 95% confidence interval 1.44-9.34; p = 0.006) as well as all atrial arrhythmias (hazard ratio 2.04, 95% confidence interval 1.15-3.61; p = 0.015). Adjunct radiofrequency ablation to complete PWI is required in at least one-third of the patients, and this need is highly predicted by the LA size (significantly increased with an LA diameter > 48 mm). LAPW reconnection also seems to be associated with LA dimension, particularly an LA diameter greater than 48 mm (negative predictive value 89.7%). Nevertheless, based on the analysis of patients who underwent repeat electrophysiology study for arrhythmia recurrences, cryoballoon PVI + PWI yields acceptable long-term durability (> 80%).A significant milestone in cardiac pacing occurred approximately two decades ago, when the primary operating mode was reimagined to more closely mimic normal top-down cardiac activation. When introduced, Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP™; Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) was an unprecedented dual-chamber mode as it preferentially paced the right atrium in the AAI/R mode and simultaneously protected against transient heart block, albeit only in the instance of dropped ventricular beats. At the time, dual-chamber DDD/R with atrial-based timing and programmable atrioventricular delay was state of the art. MVP™ "unlocked" conventional dual-chamber pacing by not consistently requiring a 11 atrioventricular relationship during its primary operating mode (ie, AAI/R+). Ultimately, MVP™ emerged as a primitive means to promote His-Purkinje activation, and it is not a coincidence that its roots can be traced back to first-in-man permanent His-bundle pacing.The impact of a provider-driven assessment and treatment algorithm based on remote OptiVol (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) fluid index levels on hospitalizations for congestive heart failure (CHF) remains unknown. We implemented a physician-guided screening and educational strategy for elevated OptiVol fluid index levels measured on remote implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) monitoring and assessed clinical outcomes over a five-year period. Patients with CHF and a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 40% or less with a previously implanted ICD underwent monthly remote monitoring from January 2015 to November 2019. An OptiVol fluid index of 60 Ω-days or more triggered a protocol-based CHF screening and therapy adjustment according to clinical presentation. Selleckchem UNC3866 Among 279 patients included in the study, 228 (81%) were male and 205 (73%) had ischemic cardiomyopathy. The average LVEF was 29% (± 7.3%). A total of 6,616 monthly transmissions were reviewed over five years; of those, 575 (8.7%) were associated with elevated OptiVol fluid index levels in 178 (64%) patients, and clinical follow-up data were available in 459 of 575 (80%) cases. Following abnormal OptiVol fluid levels on remote monitoring, CHF hospitalization occurred in 10 of 459 (2.2%) patient cases. In conclusion, monthly remote monitoring of OptiVol fluid index levels with a health care provider-guided CHF screening and an educational approach to abnormal OptiVol fluid index levels were associated with a low CHF hospitalization rate. This compared favorably to prior similar studies, and randomized controlled prospective studies evaluating similar algorithms are warranted.The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) has been crucial for the development of fundamental knowledge on electrocatalysis and electrochemistry, in general. In alkaline media, many key questions concerning pH-dependent structure-activity relations and the underlying activity descriptors remain unclear. While the presence of Ni(OH)2 deposited on Pt(111) has been shown to highly improve the rate of the HER through the electrode's bifunctionality, no studies exist on how low coverages of Ni(OH)2 influence the electrocatalytic behavior of Cu surfaces, which is a low-cost alternative to Pt. Here, we demonstrate that Cu(111) modified with 0.1 and 0.2 monolayers (ML) of Ni(OH)2 exhibits an unusual non-linear activity trend with increasing coverage. By combining in situ structural investigations with studies on the interfacial water orientation using electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy and laser-induced temperature jump experiments, we find a correlation between a particular threshold of surface roughness and the decrease in the ordering of the water network at the interface. The highly disordered water ad-layer close to the onset of the HER, which is only present for 0.2 ML of Ni(OH)2, facilitates the reorganization of the interfacial water molecules to accommodate for charge transfer, thus enhancing the rate of the reaction. These findings strongly suggest a general validity of the interfacial water reorganization as an activity descriptor for the HER in alkaline media.A simple and efficient system for the hydration and α-deuteration of nitriles to form amides, α-deuterated nitriles, and α-deuterated amides catalyzed by a single pincer complex of the earth-abundant manganese capable of metal-ligand cooperation is reported. The reaction is selective and tolerates a wide range of functional groups, giving the corresponding amides in moderate to good yields. Changing the solvent from tert-butanol to toluene and using D2O results in formation of α-deuterated nitriles in high selectivity. Moreover, α-deuterated amides can be obtained in one step directly from nitriles and D2O in THF. Preliminary mechanistic studies suggest the transformations contributing toward activation of the nitriles via a metal-ligand cooperative pathway, generating the manganese ketimido and enamido pincer complexes as the key intermediates for further transformations.Performing fundamental operando catalysis studies under realistic conditions is a key to further develop and increase the efficiency of industrial catalysts. Operando X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiments have been limited to pressures, and the relevance for industrial applications has been questioned. Herein, we report on the CO oxidation experiment on Pd(100) performed at a total pressure of 1 bar using XPS. We investigate the light-off regime and the surface chemical composition at the atomistic level in the highly active phase. Furthermore, the observed gas-phase photoemission peaks of CO2, CO, and O2 indicate that the kinetics of the reaction during the light-off regime can be followed operando, and by studying the reaction rate of the reaction, the activation energy is calculated. The reaction was preceded by an in situ oxidation study in 7% O2 in He and a total pressure of 70 mbar to confirm the surface sensitivity and assignment of the oxygen-induced photoemission peaks. However, oxygen-induced photoemission peaks were not observed during the reaction studies, but instead, a metallic Pd phase is present in the highly active regime under the conditions applied. The novel XPS setup utilizes hard X-rays to enable high-pressure studies, combined with a grazing incident angle to increase the surface sensitivity of the measurement. Our findings demonstrate the possibilities of achieving chemical information of the catalyst, operando, on an atomistic level, under industrially relevant conditions.Recent studies have shown that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) functionalized with Zn(II) complexes can cleave phosphate esters and nucleic acids. Remarkably, such synthetic nanonucleases appear to catalyze metal (Zn)-aided hydrolytic reactions of nucleic acids similar to metallonuclease enzymes. To clarify the reaction mechanism of these nanocatalysts, here we have comparatively analyzed two nanonucleases with a >10-fold difference in the catalytic efficiency for the hydrolysis of the 2-hydroxypropyl-4-nitrophenylphosphate (HPNP, a typical RNA model substrate). We have used microsecond-long atomistic simulations, integrated with NMR experiments, to investigate the structure and dynamics of the outer coating monolayer of these nanoparticles, either alone or in complex with HPNP, in solution. We show that the most efficient one is characterized by coating ligands that promote a well-organized monolayer structure, with the formation of solvated bimetallic catalytic sites. Importantly, we have found that these nanoparticles can mimic two-metal-ion enzymes for nucleic acid processing, with Zn ions that promote HPNP binding at the reaction center. Thus, the two-metal-ion-aided hydrolytic strategy of such nanonucleases helps in explaining their catalytic efficiency for substrate hydrolysis, in accordance with the experimental evidence. These mechanistic insights reinforce the parallelism between such functionalized AuNPs and proteins toward the rational design of more efficient catalysts.

Accurate and precise alignment of histopathology tissue sections is a key step for the interpretation of the proteome topology and cell level three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of diseased tissues. However, the realization of an automated and robust method for aligning nonglobally stained immunohistochemical (IHC) sections is still challenging. In this study, we aim to assess the feasibility of multidimensional graph-based image registration on aligning serial-section and whole-slide IHC section images.

An automated, patch graph-based registration method was established and applied to align serial, whole-slide IHC sections at ×10 magnification (average 32,947 × 27,054 pixels). The alignment began with the initial alignment of high-resolution reference and translated images (object segmentation and rigid registration) and nonlinear registration of low-resolution reference and translated images, followed by the multidimensional graph-based image registration of the segmented patches, and finally, the fusion of deformed patches for inspection.