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A kind of biotin derivative of containing thiol-ll-mercaptoundecanoic-(13-bi-otinoylamido-4, 7, 10-trioaxatridecaneamine) amide were synthesized with some materials such as benzyl mercaptan, bromine eleven acid, 4, 7, 10-trioaxatridecanediamine by activation ester and NH3/Na reduction of benzyl synthesis method. The molecular structures of the target compounds were confirmed by ¹H NMR and FT-IR. This compound can form self-assembled monolayer on gold surface. The assembled systems have many applications in the fields of molecular devices, biological and chemical sensors, biological membrane and so on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective To analyze the expression of splicing factors in gastric cancer using bioinformatics methods and investigate the effect of aberrantly expressed serine/arginine-rich splicing factor(SRSF10)on the phenotype of gastric cancer cells. Methods The RNA-seq data of gastric cancer and paracancerous tissues were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas(TCGA)cancer database,and bioinformatics analysis was performed to obtain the splicing factors differentially expressed in gastric cancer.The splicing factor SRSF10 was selected to investigate its effect on the development of gastric cancer.RNA interference technology was used to construct SRSF10 knockdown gastric cancer cells.MTS,Transwell,and cell scratches were used to study the effect of SRSF10 knockdown on gastric cancer cell phenotype. Results A total of 48 splicing factors were identified in gastric cancer by a series of bioinformatics techniques,of which 35 were up-regulated and 13 were down-regulated.The splicing factor SRSF10,which was up-regulated,was selected for further study.It was found that the gastric cancer cells after SRSF10 knockdown proliferated more slowly and had lower migration ability than normal gastric cancer cells. Conclusions Multiple splicing factors are found in gastric cancer and may play an important role in the development of gastric cancer.The splicing factor SRSF10 may contribute to the pathogenesis of gastric cancer.

Objective: To investigate changes in sperm chromosome and sperm DNA integrity of infertile males., Methods: The level of DNA fragmentation was determined by Sperm Chromatin Dispersion (SCD) test in infertile males with idiopathic severe oligoasthenozoospermia (ISOA, n= 19), couples with unexplained recurrent miscarriage (URM, n= 38) and adult healthy fertile men (control group, n= 32). Multi-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was performed with probes specific for chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X and Y in the control group (n= 5), the ISOA (n= 10) and the URM (n= 12)., Results: Patients with ISOA and URM showed a significantly higher abnormality with total rate of 4.02% (n= 19) and 3.91%(n= 38) for chromosomes 13, 18 and 21, and 2.03%, 1.98% for chromosomes X and Y, respectively, in their spermatozoa compared to control (1.29% and 0.61%, P< 0.01). A significantly higher proportion of total sperm DNA fragmentation was detected in patients with ISOA (40.7%+/- 17.8%) and URM (22.1%+/- 10.3%) of sperm compared to the control group (12.1%+/- 5.2%, P< 0.01). Moreover, a positive correlation was found between the rate of sperm chromosomal aberration and the rate of sperm DNA fragmentation (gamma = 0.874, P< 0.01, n= 27). There were significant correlation between sperm DNA fragmentation and sperm density, sperm motility and abnormal sperm (gamma = - 0.571, gamma = - 0.616 and gamma = 0.637, respectively, P< 0.01)., Conclusion: The result indicates that spermatozoa from patients with ISOA and URM contain greater DNA fragmentation and chromosomal aneuploidy and may lead to male infertility. Screening for sperm DNA damage may provide useful information in the diagnosis of male idiopathic infertility.

The surface properties of biomaterials are essentially important to their biocompatibility. The complexity of surface composition and structure of biomaterials bring out the problem that it is difficult to make fully clear how the surface chemical properties and the structures of biomaterials control the biological reactions between the surfaces and proteins and/or cells. The structure of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) is well established and SAMs have the characteristics of which a variety of functional groups and molecules can be introduced, either before or after the monolayer is formed, and diversified spectroscopy monitoring can be used to characterize SAMs and changes after their interactions with proteins or cells. Thus, SAMs are suitable model substrates for the study of the relationship between the surface chemical properties and biocompatibility of biomaterials. This paper reviews the researches on SAMs as models to study the absorption of proteins, cell adhesion and proliferation on materials, and the influences of both surface chemical functional groups and motion of molecular chains on hemocompatibility of biomaterials.