Nanocellulose is regarded as a green and renewable nanomaterial
that has attracted increased attention. In this study, we demonstrate
that nanocellulose materials can exhibit high thermal conductivity
when their nanofibrils are highly aligned and bonded in the form of
filaments. The thermal conductivity of individual filaments, consisting
of highly aligned cellulose nanofibrils, fabricated by the flow-focusing
method is measured in dried condition using a T-type measurement technique.
The maximum thermal conductivity of the nanocellulose filaments obtained
is 14.5 W/m-K, which is approximately five times higher than those
of cellulose nanopaper and cellulose nanocrystals. Structural investigations
suggest that the crystallinity of the filament remarkably influence
their thermal conductivity. Smaller diameter filaments with higher
crystallinity, that is, more internanofibril hydrogen bonds and less
intrananofibril disorder, tend to have higher thermal conductivity.
Temperature-dependence measurements also reveal that the filaments
exhibit phonon transport at effective dimension between 2D and 3D.
Recent studies have demonstrated that several long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in the occurrence and development of osteosarcoma (OS). However, more lncRNAs and their mechanisms in regulating growth and migration of OS cells remain to be investigated. In this study, we identified an lncRNA called DUXAP10 by analysis of GEO data, which was significantly up-regulated in OS tissues and cell lines. Experiments in vitro revealed that lncRNA DUXAP10 promoted proliferation, migration, and invasion of OS cells and inhibited their apoptosis. We also demonstrated that DUXAP10 promoted the formation and growth of OS by tumor formation assay. Furthermore, SOX18 was identified as a critical downstream target of DUXAP10 by transcriptome RNA-seq. Mechanistically, DUXAP10 mainly localized in cytoplasm and could specifically bind to HuR to increase the stability of SOX18 mRNA. Meanwhile, SOX18 knockdown largely reversed increased proliferation of OS cells induced by DUXAP10 overexpression. Findings from this study indicate that lncRNA DUXAP10 can act as an oncogene in osteosarcoma by binding HuR to up-regulate the expression of SOX18 at a post-transcriptional level, which may provide a new target for OS clinical diagnosis and treatment.
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