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Discharge of oily sewage and frequent oil spills have caused serious harm to human production, life, and ecological environment. Due to the presence of a large number of surfactants in water, these oil-water mixtures are easy to form oil-in-water emulsion, which is difficult to separate by traditional methods. At the same time, the water-soluble pollutants such as dyes and heavy metal ions in oily wastewater also cause great harm to the human body and the environment. A pine nut shell is a kind of common domestic waste material. Herein, an underwater superoleophobic pine nut shell membrane (PNSM) was prepared by the simple pumping filtration method, which realized the separation of oil-in-water emulsion and adsorption of dyes and heavy metal ions. In addition, the filter membrane can be used for separating corrosive emulsions of strong acid, strong alkali, and 3.5% NaCl solutions (simulated seawater). Besides, the PNSM showed excellent toughness and flexibility. Due to the abovementioned performance, this cost-efficient and environmentally friendly membrane can be a promising candidate for multifunctional oily water remediation.The inflammatory dysfunction of microglia from excess amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) disposal is an overlooked but pathogenic event in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we exploit a native high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-inspired nanoscavenger (pHDL/Cur-siBACE1) that combines the trinity of phosphatidic acid-functionalized HDL (pHDL), curcumin (Cur), and β-site APP cleavage enzyme 1 targeted siRNA (siBACE1) to modulate microglial dysfunction. By mimicking the natural lipoprotein transport route, pHDL can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and sequentially target Aβ plaque, where Aβ catabolism is accelerated without microglial dysfunction. The benefit results are from a three-pronged modulation strategy, including promoted Aβ clearance with an antibody-like Aβ binding affinity, normalized microglial dysfunction by blocking the NF-κB pathway, and reduced Aβ production by gene silence (44%). After treatment, the memory deficit and neuroinflammation of APPswe/PSEN 1dE9 mice are reversed. Collectively, this study highlights the double-edged sword role of microglia and provides a promising tactic for modulating microglial dysfunction in AD treatment.During tumorigenesis, DNA mutations in protein coding sequences can alter amino acid sequences which can change the structures of proteins. While the 3D structure of mutated proteins has been studied with atomic resolution, the precise impact of somatic mutations on the 3D proteome during malignant transformation remains unknown because methods to reveal in vivo protein structures in high throughput are limited. Here, we measured the accessibility of the lysine ε-amine for chemical modification across proteomes using covalent protein painting (CPP) to indirectly determine alterations in the 3D proteome. CPP is a novel, high-throughput quantitative mass spectrometric method that surveyed a total of 8052 lysine sites across the 60 cell lines of the well-studied anticancer cell line panel (NCI60). Overall, 5.2 structural alterations differentiated any cancer cell line from the other 59. Structural aberrations in 98 effector proteins correlated with the selected presence of 90 commonly mutated proteins in the NCI60 cell line panel, suggesting that different tumor genotypes reshape a limited set of effector proteins. We searched our dataset for druggable conformational aberrations and identified 49 changes in the cancer conformational landscape that correlated with the growth inhibition profiles of 300 drug candidates out of 50,000 small molecules. We found that alterations in heat shock proteins are key predictors of anticancer drug efficacy, which implies that the proteostasis network may have a general but hitherto unrecognized role in maintaining malignancy. Individual lysine sites may serve as biomarkers to guide drug selection or may be directly targeted for anticancer drug development.In continuation of the search for potential drugs that inhibit the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), in this work, a combined approach based on the modeling of NMR chemical shifts and molecular docking is suggested to identify the possible suppressors of the main protease of this virus among a number of natural products of diverse nature. Primarily, with the aid of an artificial neural network, the problem of the reliable determination of the stereochemical structure of a number of studied compounds was solved. Complementary to the main goal of this study, theoretical modeling of NMR spectral parameters made it feasible to perform a number of signal reassignments together with introducing some missing NMR data. Almonertinib Finally, molecular docking formalism was applied to the analysis of several natural products that could be chosen as prospective candidates for the role of potential inhibitors of the main protease. The results of this study are believed to assist in further research aimed at the development of specific drugs based on the natural products against COVID-19.With innumerable clinical failures of target-specific drug candidates for multifactorial diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), which remains inefficiently treated, the advent of multitarget drug discovery has brought a new breath of hope. Here, we disclose a class of 6-chlorotacrine (huprine)-TPPU hybrids as dual inhibitors of the enzymes soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) and acetylcholinesterase (AChE), a multitarget profile to provide cumulative effects against neuroinflammation and memory impairment. Computational studies confirmed the gorge-wide occupancy of both enzymes, from the main site to a secondary site, including a so far non-described AChE cryptic pocket. The lead compound displayed in vitro dual nanomolar potencies, adequate brain permeability, aqueous solubility, human microsomal stability, lack of neurotoxicity, and it rescued memory, synaptic plasticity, and neuroinflammation in an AD mouse model, after low dose chronic oral administration.Escherichia coli is a major industrial producer of d-lactic acid due to its well-known advantages, such as short cycle times and low demand. However, acid sensitivity limits production capacity and increases costs. Enhancing the resistance of E. coli to acid stress is essential for improving the cell performance and production value. Here, we propose a feasible strategy to increase the acid tolerance of cells by strengthening intracellular proton conversion. The transcriptome test of the acid-tolerant adaptive evolution strain identified the hydrogenase accessory proteins HypB and HypC as a class of acid-tolerant factors that can assist the hydrogenase in catalyzing the reduction of protons to produce hydrogen. Strengthening the expression of HypB and HypC can increase the cell survival rate by 336.3 times during the lethal stress of d-lactate. In addition, HypB and HypC will assist d-lactate-producing strains to show higher sustainable productivity in an acidic fermentation environment, and d-lactate titer will increase by 113.6%. In order to further improve the expression system of the hydrogenase accessory protein, the introduction of a strong acid stress-driven promoter tdcAp can reduce the demand for neutralizer delivery in the fermentation process by about 26.7% while maintaining the maximum intensity of d-lactic acid production. Therefore, this research developed a method to improve the acid resistance of E. coli cells and reduce the cost of organic acid production by transforming protons.The newly discovered AMnBi2 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba, Eu, and Yb) materials composed of two-dimensional Bi square nets provide an excellent platform to investigate the effect of magnetism on topological band structures. Effectively tuning the magnetic interaction in AMnBi2 is of great importance to advance this issue. Here, we describe an effective route to tune the magnetism in Dirac semimetal CaMnBi2 through Cu doping. Structural analysis on CaMn1-xCuxBi2 single crystals indicates that Cu atoms occupy the Mn sites randomly, with the maximum doping level of 25%. After Cu doping, the Bi square net in charge of the Dirac band is still retained, but the Bi-Bi bond distance is markedly shortened. The antiferromagnetic interaction of CaMnBi2 is strongly weakened in the Cu-doped crystals, with the transition temperature decreased from 260 to 85 K. On the contrary, the ferromagnetic component that originated from the canted AFM is enhanced, suggesting that the spin canting in this system is tunable. In addition, the magnetoresistance is decreased upon Cu doping, probably due to the disorder in structure. Our work suggests that the CaMn1-xCuxBi2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.25) system can offer a suitable playground to address the interplay between magnetism and the topological state.The aza-Diels-Alder-type reaction between imines and functionalized alkenes is one of the most versatile approaches to obtain piperidine derivatives. When using the Lewis acid [Mo2(OAc)4] (CAT) as a catalyst, it was found that the activation of CAT by O2 was essential for an efficient reaction. In this paper, the mechanism and stereoselectivity of the aza-Diels-Alder reaction between aromatic acyl hydrozones 1 and Danishefsky diene 2 under uncatalyzed and catalyzed (CAT not activated by O2 and CAT activated by O2) conditions have been studied by density functional theory (DFT) calculation. The results show that the uncatalyzed reaction is difficult to proceed at room temperature due to the high energy barrier. The CAT not activated by molecular oxygen has catalytic activity but not too much. When CAT is activated by O2, CATO2 may be the correct catalytic species, which results in a dramatic increase of reaction activity. The reaction mechanisms with/without the catalyst are different. The uncatalyzed reaction is concerted for both the endo and exo pathways. For the CAT-catalyzed reaction, the endo pathway is concerted, but the exo pathway is nonconcerted and involves two steps. The endo product is the main product for the reaction catalyzed by CAT, while for reactions catalyzed by CATO1 and CATO2, the endo and exo products can be obtained. The reaction activity is directly correlated to the atomic charges of two coupling C atoms. Our work explains the experimental results, determines the structure of the O2-activated catalyst species, and provides predictions for the reaction activity and stereoselectivity controlling.Zeolite nanosheets with excellent mass transfer are attractive, but their successful syntheses are normally resulted from a huge number of experiments. Here, we show the design of a small organic template for the synthesis of self-pillared pentasil (SPP) zeolite nanosheets from theoretical calculations in interaction energies between organic templates and pentasil zeolite skeletons. As expected, the SPP zeolite nanosheets with the thickness at 10-20 nm have been synthesized successfully. Characterizations show that the SPP zeolite nanosheets with about 90% MFI and 10% MEL structures have good crystallinity, the house-of-card morphology, large surface area, and fully four-coordinated aluminum species. More importantly, methanol-to-propylene tests show that the SPP zeolite nanosheets exhibit much higher propylene selectivity and longer reaction lifetime than conventional ZSM-5 zeolite. These results offer a good opportunity to develop highly efficient zeolite catalysts in the future.