Purpose: This study aims to address the hypothesis that the high-mobility group A2 (HMGA2), an oncofetal protein, relates to survivability and serves as a prognostic biomarker for colorectal cancer (CRC).Experimental Design: This is a retroprospective multiple center study. The HMGA2 expression level was determined by performing immunohistochemistry on surgical tissue samples of 89 CRCs from a training set and 191 CRCs from a validation set. The Kaplan-Meier analysis and COX proportional hazard model were employed to analyze the survivability.Results: Multivariate logistic analysis indicated that the expression of HMGA2 significantly correlates with distant metastasis in training set (odds ratio, OR ¼ 3.53, 95% CI: 1.37-9.70) and validation set (OR ¼ 6.38, 95% CI: 1.47-43.95). Survival analysis revealed that the overexpression of HMGA2 is significantly associated with poor survival of CRC patients (P < 0.05). The adjusted HRs for overall survival were 2.38 (95% CI: 1.30-4.34) and 2.14 (95% CI: 1.21-3.79) in training and validation sets, respectively. Further investigation revealed that HMGA2 delays the clearance of g-H2AX in HCT-116 and SW480 cells post g-irradiation, which supports our finding that CRC patients with HMAG2-positive staining in primary tumors had augmented the efficacy of adjuvant radiotherapy (HR ¼ 0.18, 95% CI: 0.04-0.63).Conclusion: Overexpression of HMGA2 is associated with metastasis and unequivocally occurred in parallel with reduced survival rates of patients with CRC. Therefore, HMGA2 may potentially serve as a biomarker for predicting aggressive CRC with poor survivability and as an indicator for better response of radiotherapy.

and then generate a high-energy photon through radiation transitions from the excited state. Compared with single photon excited luminescence, MPE luminescence has the advantages of stronger spatial confinement, longer penetration depth, smaller biological damage, and less Rayleigh scattering, so the high-order MPE luminescence materials have great potential applications in bioimaging, 3D optical data storage, sensing, and so on, but basically have not been fulfilled yet, [1][2][3][4][5] mainly because of the big challenge and difficulty to realize high-order MPE luminescence. Even for those materials exhibiting such MPE luminescence, the five-photon excited luminescence phenomena can be only observed in the dispersed solutions of either organic chromophore molecules or core-shell halide perovskite semiconductor nanocrystals (MAPbBr 3 /(OA) 2 PbBr 4 ) in order to diminish the aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) while still with quite low multiphoton action cross-sections (MPACs), or have poor stability without any encapsulation approaches (The MPAC (ησ n ) is the product of photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY, η) and multiphoton absorption cross-section (σ n ), the parameter to evaluate the multiphoton excited luminescence brightness). [6,7] The deficiency of bulky high-order MPE luminescence solid single crystals with low excitation threshold have further limited the exploration and implementation of such MPE materials into miniaturization and device, and thus their practical applications.Some porous materials such as mesoporous silica and porous alumina have been utilized to confine dye molecules and perovskite nanoparticles and thus to diminish the ACQ and to develop the solid-state luminescence. [4,[8][9][10][11] The emergence of a new type of porous materials, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has provided the significant promise to provide much better confinement for the potentially luminescent dye molecules and perovskite nanoparticles because of their more tunable pores/cages and specific sites to introduce strong recognitions. Indeed, we have recently realized a three-photon excited emissive material ZJU-68⊃DMASM through an exact match of a dye molecule with the pores of the metal-organic framework although high-order MPE luminescence solid single The development of the photostable higher-order multiphoton-excited (MPE) upconversion single microcrystalline material is fundamentally and technologically important, but very challenging. Here, up to five-photon excited luminescence in a host-guest metal-organic framework (MOF) and perovskite quantum dot (QD) hybrid single crystal ZJU-28⊃MAPbBr 3 is shown via an in situ growth approach. Such a MOF strategy not only results in a high QD loading concentration, but also significantly diminishes the aggregationcaused quenching (ACQ) effect, provides effective surface passivation, and greatly reduces the contact of the QDs with the external bad atmosphere due to the confinement effect and protection of the framework. These advantages make the resulting ZJU-28⊃MAPb...

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separations. [1] Ethylene (C 2 H 4 ), as the most important olefins, is the mainstay of petrochemical industry, with a global annual production of exceeding 170 million tonnes per year. "Polymer-grade" specification of ethylene is required for the manufacture of polyethylene plastic. The industrial separation of ethylene from ethylene/ethane (C 2 H 4 /C 2 H 6 ) mixtures highly relies on the repeated distillation-compression cycling at the temperature as low as −160 °C. [1,2] Such heat-driven separation involving in the phase change of isolated fractions, is highly energy-and capital-intensive. Finding energy-efficient alternatives to distillation would widely lower global energy consumption, carbon emissions, and pollution. It is feasible in principle to separate C 2 H 4 /C 2 H 6 mixtures based on porous solid materials via the energy-efficient and environmentally friendly adsorption technology. In this context, development of suitable porous adsorbents for ethylene/ ethane separation is of highly commercial significance.A number of porous materials including zeolites, [3] carbon molecular sieves, [4] and alumina, [5] have been explored for the separation of ethylene and ethane. However, the limits on deliberately designing the structure of such purely inorganic materials make them hardly meet the requirement of industrial implement. As an emerging class of microporous The development of new materials for separating ethylene (C 2 H 4 ) from ethane (C 2 H 6 ) by adsorption is of great importance in the petrochemical industry, but remains very challenging owing to their close molecular sizes and physical properties. Using isoreticular chemistry in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) enables the precise design and construction of target materials with suitable aperture sizes and functional sites for gas separations. Herein, it is described that fine-tuning of pore size and π-complexation simultaneously in microporous copper(I)-chelated MOFs can remarkably boost the C 2 H 4 /C 2 H 6 adsorption selectivity. The judicious choice of organic linkers with a different number of carboxyl groups in the UiO-66 framework not only allows the fine tuning of the pore size but also immobilizes copper(I) ions onto the framework. The tailor-made adsorbent, Cu I @UiO-66-(COOH) 2 , thus possesses the optimal pore window size and chelated Cu(I) ions to form π-complexation with C 2 H 4 molecules. It can rapidly adsorb C 2 H 4 driven by the strong π-complexation interactions, while effectively reducing C 2 H 6 uptake due to the selective size-sieving. Therefore, this material exhibits an ultrahigh C 2 H 4 /C 2 H 6 selectivity (80.8), outperforming most previously described benchmark materials. The exceptional separation performance of Cu I @UiO-66-(COOH) 2 is validated by breakthrough experiments for 50/50 v/v C 2 H 4 /C 2 H 6 mixtures under ambient conditions.