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Stroganov V, Hüger D, Neumann C, Noethel T, Steinert M, Hübner U, Turchanin A. Gas Transport Mechanisms through Molecular Thin Carbon Nanomembranes. Small 2023:e2300282. [PMID: 37026659 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202300282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Molecular thin carbon nanomembranes (CNMs) synthesized by electron irradiation induced cross-linking of aromatic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are promising 2D materials for the next generation of filtration technologies. Their unique properties including ultimately low thickness of ≈1 nm, sub-nanometer porosity, mechanical and chemical stability are attractive for the development of innovative filters with low energy consumption, improved selectivity, and robustness. However, the permeation mechanisms through CNMs resulting in, e.g., an ≈1000 times higher fluxes of water in comparison to helium have not been yet understood. Here, a study of the permeation of He, Ne, D2 , CO2 , Ar, O2 and D2 O using mass spectrometry in the temperature range from room temperature to ≈120 °C is studied. As a model system, CNMs made from [1″,4',1',1]-terphenyl-4-thiol SAMs are investigated. It is found out that all studied gases experience an activation energy barrier upon the permeation which scales with their kinetic diameters. Moreover, their permeation rates are dependent on the adsorption on the nanomembrane surface. These findings enable to rationalize the permeation mechanisms and establish a model, which paves the way toward the rational design not only of CNMs but also of other organic and inorganic 2D materials for energy-efficient and highly selective filtration applications.
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- Vladislav Stroganov
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT), 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany
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Meegoda JN, Bezerra de Souza B, Casarini MM, Kewalramani JA. A Review of PFAS Destruction Technologies. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:ijerph192416397. [PMID: 36554276 PMCID: PMC9778349 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192416397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a family of highly toxic emerging contaminants that have caught the attention of both the public and private sectors due to their adverse health impacts on society. The scientific community has been laboriously working on two fronts: (1) adapting already existing and effective technologies in destroying organic contaminants for PFAS remediation and (2) developing new technologies to remediate PFAS. A common characteristic in both areas is the separation/removal of PFASs from other contaminants or media, followed by destruction. The widely adopted separation technologies can remove PFASs from being in contact with humans; however, they remain in the environment and continue to pose health risks. On the other hand, the destructive technologies discussed here can effectively destroy PFAS compounds and fully address society's urgent need to remediate this harmful family of chemical compounds. This review reports and compare widely accepted as well as emerging PFAS destruction technologies. Some of the technologies presented in this review are still under development at the lab scale, while others have already been tested in the field.
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Metastasis is the main cause of cancer-related death and the major challenge in cancer treatment. Cancer cells in circulation are termed circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Primary tumor metastasis is likely due to CTCs released into the bloodstream. These CTCs extravasate and form fatal metastases in different organs. Analyses of CTCs are clarifying the biological understanding of metastatic cancers. These data are also helpful to monitor disease progression and to inform the development of personalized cancer treatment-based liquid biopsy. However, CTCs are a rare cell population with 1-10 CTCs per ml and are difficult to isolate from blood. Numerous approaches to detect CTCs have been developed based on the physical and biological properties of the cells. The present review summarizes the progress made in detecting CTCs.
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- Xiuxiu Hu
- School of Medical Technology, Jiangsu College of Nursing, Huai'an, Jiangsu 22300, P.R. China
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- Department of Ultrasonography, Huai'an Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223002, P.R. China
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- Clinical Medical Laboratory, Huai'an Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223002, P.R. China
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Steigenberger B, van den Toorn HWP, Bijl E, Greisch JF, Räther O, Lubeck M, Pieters RJ, Heck AJR, Scheltema RA. Benefits of Collisional Cross Section Assisted Precursor Selection (caps-PASEF) for Cross-linking Mass Spectrometry. Mol Cell Proteomics 2020; 19:1677-1687. [PMID: 32694122 PMCID: PMC8015012 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.ra120.002094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Ion mobility separates molecules in the gas-phase based on their physico-chemical properties, providing information about their size as collisional cross-sections. The timsTOF Pro combines trapped ion mobility with a quadrupole, collision cell and a TOF mass analyzer, to probe ions at high speeds with on-the-fly fragmentation. Here, we show that on this platform ion mobility is beneficial for cross-linking MS (XL-MS). Cross-linking reagents covalently link amino acids in proximity, resulting in peptide pairs after proteolytic digestion. These cross-linked peptides are typically present at low abundance in the background of normal peptides, which can partially be resolved by using enrichable cross-linking reagents. Even with a very efficient enrichable cross-linking reagent, like PhoX, the analysis of cross-linked peptides is still hampered by the co-enrichment of peptides connected to a partially hydrolyzed reagent - termed mono-linked peptides. For experiments aiming to uncover protein-protein interactions these are unwanted byproducts. Here, we demonstrate that gas-phase separation by ion mobility enables the separation of mono-linked peptides from cross-linked peptide pairs. A clear partition between these two classes is observed at a CCS of 500 Å2 and a monoisotopic mass of 2 kDa, which can be used for targeted precursor selection. A total of 50-70% of the mono-linked peptides are prevented from sequencing, allowing the analysis to focus on sequencing the relevant cross-linked peptide pairs. In applications to both simple proteins and protein mixtures and a complete highly complex lysate this approach provides a substantial increase in detected cross-linked peptides.
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- Barbara Steigenberger
- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Netherlands Proteomics Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Salas D, Stacey RG, Akinlaja M, Foster LJ. Next-generation Interactomics: Considerations for the Use of Co-elution to Measure Protein Interaction Networks. Mol Cell Proteomics 2020; 19:1-10. [PMID: 31792070 PMCID: PMC6944233 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.r119.001803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Understanding how proteins interact is crucial to understanding cellular processes. Among the available interactome mapping methods, co-elution stands out as a method that is simultaneous in nature and capable of identifying interactions between all the proteins detected in a sample. The general workflow in co-elution methods involves the mild extraction of protein complexes and their separation into several fractions, across which proteins bound together in the same complex will show similar co-elution profiles when analyzed appropriately. In this review we discuss the different separation, quantification and bioinformatic strategies used in co-elution studies, and the important considerations in designing these studies. The benefits of co-elution versus other methods makes it a valuable starting point when asking questions that involve the perturbation of the interactome.
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- Daniela Salas
- Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Szigeti M, Guttman A. Sample Preparation Scale-Up for Deep N-glycomic Analysis of Human Serum by Capillary Electrophoresis and CE-ESI-MS. Mol Cell Proteomics 2019; 18:2524-2531. [PMID: 31628258 PMCID: PMC6885710 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.tir119.001669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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We introduce an efficient sample preparation workflow to facilitate deep N-glycomics analysis of the human serum by capillary electrophoresis with laser induced fluorescence (CE-LIF) detection and to accommodate the higher sample concentration requirement of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry connected to capillary electrophoresis (CE-ESI-MS). A novel, temperature gradient denaturing protocol was applied on amine functionalized magnetic bead partitioned glycoproteins to circumvent the otherwise prevalent precipitation issue. During this process, the free sugar content of the serum was significantly decreased as well, accommodating enhanced PNGase F mediated release of the N-linked carbohydrates. The liberated oligosaccharides were tagged with aminopyrene-trisulfonate, utilizing a modified evaporative labeling protocol. Processing the samples with this new workflow enabled deep CE-LIF analysis of the human serum N-glycome and provided the appropriate amount of material for CE-ESI-MS analysis in negative ionization mode.
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- Marton Szigeti
- MTA-PE Translational Glycomics Research Group, Research Institute of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, University of Pannonia, 10 Egyetem Street, Veszprem, 8200, Hungary; Horváth Csaba Memorial Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Doctoral School of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 98 Nagyerdei krt., Debrecen, 4032, Hungary
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- MTA-PE Translational Glycomics Research Group, Research Institute of Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, University of Pannonia, 10 Egyetem Street, Veszprem, 8200, Hungary; Horváth Csaba Memorial Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Doctoral School of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, 98 Nagyerdei krt., Debrecen, 4032, Hungary.
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