Marine-derived fungi provide plenty of structurally unique and biologically active secondary metabolites. We screened 87 marine products from mangrove fungi in the South China Sea for anticancer activity by MTT assay. 14% of the compounds (11/86) exhibited a potent activity against cancer in vitro. Importantly, some compounds such as compounds 78 and 81 appeared to be promising for treating can...

Intercalation cotnpounds with one type of guest atom are pseudobinary systems as long as the host retains its structure, and the behavior of such compounds can often be understood with two-component models. '2 One component is then the guest and the other is the interstitial site where the guest resides. Similarly, intercalation compounds with two types of guests are pseudoternary systems. Addi...

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 8103 wileyonlinelibrary.com High performance cathodes, including metal oxides,[11–14] phosphates,[15–18] hexacyanometalates,[19–21] sulfur,[22,23] metal sulfides,[24,25] and organic materials,[26–28] have been reported, and porous carbonaceous materials and metallic Sb and Sn anodes also show high capacity and long cycling stability.[29–34] In c...

BACKGROUND Metalloporphyrin ions, with planar shape, have been known to intercalate horizontally and diagonally between montmorillonite layers. Perpendicular intercalation inside montmorillonite has not been reported earlier. This work aims at achieving perpendicular intercalation inside montmorillonite in natural clays. Possible intercalation inside other forms of natural clay will also be inv...

Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) mimic DNA and RNA by forming complementary duplex structures following Watson-Crick base pairing. A set of reporter compounds that bind to DNA by intercalation are known, but these compounds do not intercalate in PNA/DNA hybrid duplexes. Analysis of the hybrid PNA duplexes requires development of reporter compounds that probe their chemical and physical properties. W...

A series of novel substituted acridones (1–15) have been synthesized. Their in vitro cytotoxicity against human breast adenocarcinoma (MCF-7) and human promyelocytic leukemia (HL-60) cell lines has been investigated. The compounds 11, 12, 14 and 15 showed moderate activity against MCF-7 cell lines with IC50 value < 5.83 μM. The compounds 8, 10–12, and 15 showed moderate activity against HL-60 c...

Daunomycin is one of the most important agents used in anticancer chemotherapy. It interacts with DNA through intercalation of its planar chromophore between successive base pairs. The effect of intercalation on structure, dynamics and energetics is the topic of a wealth of scientific studies. In the present study, we report a computational examination of the energetics of the intercalation pro...

Intercalation provides to the host materials a means for controlled variation of many physical/chemical properties and dominates reactions in metal-ion batteries. Of particular interest is graphite intercalation compounds with intriguing staging structures, which however are still unclear, especially their nanostructure dynamic transition mechanism. Herein, nature structure evolution lithium (L...

Interaction of intercalators: ethidium bromide (EtBr), methylene blue (MB) and acridine orange (AO), with DNA at 0.02 M ionic strength of the solution has been studied by differential spectroscopy method. It was revealed that EtBr binds to DNA by intercalation, semi-intercalation and electrostatic modes; MB by semiintercalation and electrostatic modes and AO by intercalation and electrostatic m...

Properties of many layered materials, including copper- and iron-based superconductors, topological insulators, graphite and epitaxial graphene, can be manipulated by the inclusion of different atomic and molecular species between the layers via a process known as intercalation. For example, intercalation in graphite can lead to superconductivity and is crucial in the working cycle of modern ba...