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ArticleNature communications2019

Single- and multi-component chiral supraparticles as modular enantioselective catalysts.

Si Li, Juan Liu, Naomi S Ramesar, Hendrik Heinz, Liguang Xu, Chuanlai Xu, Nicholas A Kotov

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Tapered chiral nanoparticles as broad-spectrum thermally stable antivirals for SARS-CoV-2 variants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Si LiState Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Juan LiuDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Naomi S RamesarDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Hendrik HeinzDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Liguang XuState Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. xuliguang2006@126.com.
Chuanlai XuState Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5639-7102
Nicholas A KotovDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. kotov@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6864-5804
Jiangnan University · CNUniversity of Colorado Boulder · USUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanoscale biological assemblies exemplified by exosomes, endosomes and capsids, play crucial roles in all living systems. Supraparticles (SP) from inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) replicate structural characteristics of these bioassemblies, but it is unknown whether they can mimic their biochemical functions. Here, we show that chiral ZnS NPs self-assemble into 70-100 nm SPs that display sub-nanoscale porosity associated with interstitial spaces between constituent NPs. Similarly to photosynthetic bacterial organelles, these SPs can serve as photocatalysts, enantioselectively converting L- or D-tyrosine (Tyr) into dityrosine (diTyr). Experimental data and molecular dynamic simulations indicate that the chiral bias of the photocatalytic reaction is associated with the chiral environment of interstitial spaces and preferential partitioning of enantiomers into SPs, which can be further enhanced by co-assembling ZnS with Au NPs. Besides replicating a specific function of biological nanoassemblies, these findings establish a path to enantioselective oxidative coupling of phenols for biomedical and other needs.

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BiomimeticsCatalysisGoldMetal NanoparticlesPorosityStereoisomerismSulfidesTyrosineZinc CompoundsdityrosineGoldSulfidesTyrosineZinc Compoundszinc sulfide

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PMID31645546
PMCPMC6811642
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