Mushroom-Derived Medicine? Preclinical Studies Suggest Potential Benefits of Ergothioneine for Cardiometabolic Health

Medicinal use of mushrooms has been documented since ancient times, and in the modern world, mushrooms have a longstanding history of use in Eastern medicine. Recent interest in plant-based diets in Westernized countries has brought increasing attention to the use of mushrooms and mushroom-derived compounds in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Edible mushrooms are the most abundant food sources of the modified amino acid, ergothioneine. This compound has been shown to accumulate in almost all cells and tissues, but preferentially in those exposed to oxidative stress and injury. The demonstrated cytoprotectant effect of ergothioneine has led many to suggest a potential therapeutic role for this compound in chronic conditions that involve ongoing oxidative stress and inflammation, including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. However, the in vivo effects of ergothioneine and its underlying therapeutic mechanisms in the whole organism are not as clear. Moreover, there are no well-defined, clinical prevention and intervention trials of ergothioneine in chronic disease. This review highlights the cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of ergothioneine and its potential as a Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the promotion of cardiometabolic health and the management of the most common manifestations of cardiometabolic disease.     

Functional Characterisation of Three Glycine N-Acyltransferase Variants and the Effect on Glycine Conjugation to Benzoyl–CoA

The glycine conjugation pathway in humans is involved in the metabolism of natural substrates and the detoxification of xenobiotics. The interactions between the various substrates in this pathway and their competition for the pathway enzymes are currently unknown. The pathway consists of a mitochondrial xenobiotic/medium-chain fatty acid: coenzyme A (CoA) ligase (ACSM2B) and glycine N-acyltransferase (GLYAT). The catalytic mechanism and substrate specificity of both of these enzymes have not been thoroughly characterised. In this study, the level of evolutionary conservation of GLYAT missense variants and haplotypes were analysed. From these data, haplotype variants were selected (156Asn > Ser, [17Ser > Thr,156Asn > Ser] and [156Asn > Ser,199Arg > Cys]) in order to characterise the kinetic mechanism of the enzyme over a wide range of substrate concentrations. The 156Asn > Ser haplotype has the highest frequency and the highest relative enzyme activity in all populations studied, and hence was used as the reference in this study. Cooperative substrate binding was observed, and the kinetic data were fitted to a two-substrate Hill equation. The coding region of the GLYAT gene was found to be highly conserved and the rare 156Asn > Ser,199Arg > Cys variant negatively affected the relative enzyme activity. Even though the 156Asn > Ser,199Arg > Cys variant had a higher affinity for benzoyl-CoA (s_0.5,benz = 61.2 µM), k_cat was reduced to 9.8% of the most abundant haplotype 156Asn > Ser (s_0.5,benz = 96.6 µM), while the activity of 17Ser > Thr,156Asn > Ser (s_0.5,benz = 118 µM) was 73% of 156Asn > Ser. The in vitro kinetic analyses of the effect of the 156Asn > Ser,199Arg > Cys variant on human GLYAT enzyme activity indicated that individuals with this haplotype might have a decreased ability to metabolise benzoate when compared to individuals with the 156Asn > Ser variant. Furthermore, the accumulation of acyl-CoA intermediates can inhibit ACSM2B leading to a reduction in mitochondrial energy production.     

基于K-距离拓扑的分布式数据存储方法

针对分布式数据存储算法通常需要较长的等待时间、且对海量数据加密时严重浪费计算资源和时间的问题,提出了一种基于K-距离拓扑的分布式数据存储方法.通过寻找K-距离拓扑子图来实现数据的安全放置,优先选择存取速度更快的节点和自身保护能力强的节点实现总体性能的提升.在Internet 2拓扑图与随机拓扑图下的仿真测试结果表明,所提出的方法能在满足安全距离约束的条件下选择到最优的数据存储节点,从而减小数据存取时间.     

V2O5/g⁃C3N4催化剂的制备及其模拟油中硫化物的脱除

以三聚氰胺、偏钒酸铵、硼酸为前驱体,通过煅烧法制备V₂O₅/g⁃C₃N₄催化剂。采用XRD、FT⁃IR、XPS、SEM和BET等技术对催化剂的结构与形貌进行表征。以V₂O₅/g⁃C₃N₄为催化剂,乙腈为萃取剂,H₂O₂为氧化剂对模拟油中二苯并噻吩（DBT）的脱除进行考察。探究了反应温度、催化剂质量、萃取剂体积、n(H₂O₂)/n(S)以及不同硫化物等因素对脱硫效果的影响。在模拟油体积为5.0 mL、萃取剂乙腈体积为3.0 mL、n(H₂O₂)/n(S)=8、催化剂质量为0.02 g、反应温度为30 ℃和反应时间为60 min的最佳条件下,DBT的脱除率达到91.9%,经过5次催化剂再生后脱硫率仍可以达到85.7%。     

D-2-DenseNet噪音鲁棒的城市音频分类模型

为了提高噪音环境下城市音频分类系统的鲁棒性,提出了一种双特征2阶密集卷积神经网络（D-2-DenseNet）噪音鲁棒的城市音频分类模型.首先介绍了噪音添加和噪音鲁棒处理,阐述了一种双特征互补偿的算法;然后结合2阶密集卷积神经网络与自适应机制提出了一种噪音鲁棒音频分类模型：双特征2阶密集卷积神经网络.模型采用双特征互补偿自适应算法,可在特征提取与模型训练中更有针对性地提取有效音频信息,降低噪音干扰,以提高噪音鲁棒性.最后,基于Dcase2016数据集开展噪音环境下城市音频分类测试.实验结果表明,模型分类准确率分别可达77.12%、75.52%,与基线模型相比,平均分类准确率分别提高了8.51%和10.38%,验证了模型良好的噪音鲁棒性.     

基于改进MobileNet v2的垃圾图像分类算法

针对现有的垃圾图像分类模型实时性能差和分类精度低的问题,提出基于改进MobileNet v2的垃圾图像分类方法,构建以MobileNet v2为核心的轻量级特征提取网络. 通过调整宽度因子降低模型的参数量;在模型中嵌入通道和空间注意力模块,增强网络对特征的细化能力;设计多尺度特征融合结构,增强网络对尺度的适应性;利用迁移学习的方式优化模型参数,进一步提高模型精度. 实验结果表明,算法在自建数据集上的平均准确率为94.6%,分别高于MobileNet v2、VGG16、GoogleNet、ResNet50、ResNet101模型2.0%、3.4%、3.2%、2.3%、1.2%;所提算法在2种公共图像分类数据集CIFAR-100和tiny-ImageNet中均取得不错表现;模型参数量仅为0.83 M,体积约为基础模型的2/5,在边缘设备JETSON TX2上的单次推理耗时68 ms,实现了推理速度和预测准确率的提升.     

Surface nanocrystallization of 7A04 aluminium alloy induced by circulation rolling plastic deformation

The surface nanocrystalline microstructures of 7A04 aluminium alloy was obtained by means of circulation rolling plastic deformation（CRPD）, the grain refinement behavior and the hardness variation were examined. X-ray diffraction（XRD） and transmission electron microscopy（TEM） were applied to characterize the microstructure of the surface layer. The experimental evidences show that, after the CRPD treatment, the mean grain size in the surface layer is about 50 nm. The microhardness of the nanostructured surface layers is enhanced significantly after CRPD compared with that of the matrix, which can be attributed primarily to the grain refinement. The microhardness at the top surface can reach about HV0.05335, while the value of the matrix is HV0.05160 or so. The surface hardening effect is obtained obviously. Besides, the thermal stability of nanocrystalline layer was investigated. The results of the XRD analysis and the microhardness measurement show that the nanocrystalline layer has better thermal-stability than the matrix. And the DSC measurement shows that the synthesis of nanostructured surface layer has influence on the phase transformation of 7A04 aluminum alloy.     

燃烧合成三元碳化合物Ti2AlC1-x

采用Ti，Al和C元素粉末为反应物原料，通过燃烧合成法首次成功地制备出了单相三元碳化合物Ti2AlC1-x。实验结果表明：若以“理想”晶体结构化学式Ti2AlC化学计量比为起始反应原料配比，燃烧产物主晶相为Ti2AlC2；以缺碳的非化学计量比(Ti2AlC1-x)为反应原料配比，即Ti：Al：C=3：1．5：1=2：1：0．7(摩尔比)，得到单相的燃烧产物Ti2AlC1-x。从热力学原理的角度探讨了不同原料摩尔配比对燃烧产物相组成的影响机理。     

热压烧结Ti3AlC2材料的制备、结构与性能研究

采用热压工艺研究了不同工艺制度和原料中不同的Si含量对Ti3AlC2合成的影响.研究表明在1 300℃～1 500℃,30MPa压力和Ar气氛中热压摩尔比为n(TiC)n(Ti)n(Al)n(Si)=2110.2的混合粉末,可以得到纯度达98%(质量分数)以上的致密块体Ti3AlC2材料;添加的Si均匀分布在基体中,形成固溶体,当添加Si的摩尔比为0.2时,固溶体的化学式为Ti2 76Al0 78Si0.22C2.烧结试样的晶体为层片状结构,1 300℃和1 400℃时,烧结试样的晶粒尺寸分别为10μm～15μm和20μm～30μm.材料的维氏硬度为3.3 GPa～5.0 GPa,弹性模量为289 GPa,抗压强度为785 MPa,抗弯强度为375 MPa,断裂韧性为7.0 MPa·m1/2;25℃时,电导率为3.1×106 S·m-1,热容为125.4 J/mol·K,热导率为27.5 W/m·K;热膨胀系数为8.8×10-6 K-1.