Wuhan University of Technology

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

JoVE Journal

The Effect of Interfacial Chemical Bonding in TiO₂-SiO₂ Composites on Their Photocatalytic NOx Abatement Performance

Amer Hakki¹, Lu Yang^1,2, Fazhou Wang², Donald E. Macphee¹

¹Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, ²State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology

The focus of the present work is to establish means to generate and quantify levels of Ti-O-Si linkages and to correlate these with the photocatalytic properties of the supported TiO₂.

Biochemistry

Nucleoside Triphosphate Hydrolases Assay in Toxoplasm gondii and Neospora caninum for High-Throughput Screening using a Robot Arm

Riho Kurata^*1, Masamitsu Harada^*2, Jun Nagai^*3, Xiaofeng Cui^*4, Takayuki Isagawa⁵, Hiroaki Semba⁶, Yasuhiro Yoshida⁷, Norihiko Takeda⁸, Koji Maemura⁹, Tomo Yonezawa³

¹Education and Research Center for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, ²Independent Scholar, Tokyo, Japan, ³Division of Functional Genomics and Therapeutic Innovation, Research Center for Advanced Genomics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, ⁴School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences, School of Materials and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, ⁵Data Science Center, Jichi Medical University, ⁶Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cardiovascular Institute, ⁷Department of Immunology and Parasitology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, ⁸Division of Cardiology and Metabolism, Center for Molecular Medicine, Jichi Medical University, ⁹Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University Hospital

Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum infections are found in humans and animals and lead to serious health issues. The two parasites share similar nucleoside triphosphate hydrolases and play important roles in propagation and survival. We established a high-standard assay of the enzymes requiring robot arm usage.