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Supplemental Material for Procollagen C-protease enhancer protein is a prognostic factor for glioma and promotes glioma development by regulating multiple tumor-related pathways and immune microenvironment by Zijun Zhao, Jiahui Zhao, Zairan Wang, Yue Wu, Zhanzhan Zhang, Zihan Song, Jihao Miao, Boheng Liu, Shiyang Zhang, Boyu Sun, and Zongmao Zhao in International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology

The development of sustainable functional materials derived from natural biomass is attracting tremendous attention from both academic and industrial fields in recent years. Besides renewability, sustainable polymeric materials are highly expected to outperform fossil fuel-derived analogues, showing the excellent application potentials. In this work, a renewable plant-oil based polymer was synthesized and its copolymers tackified by adenine/thymine-containing monomers could act as pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) with good performance attained. The PSAs containing adenine moieties had better adhesive properties compared with thymine-containing copolymers with the same molar ratio of comonomers, on account of its strong π-π stacking of purines. In addition, the supramolecular mixtures with complementary nucleobases could form intermolecular H-bonding interaction, having both enhanced peel and shear strengths over ones with individual nucleobases. The renewable plant oil-based PSAs showed outstanding reusability and robust adhesion to various substrates. More importantly, the long alkyl chains from the plant oil moieties also impart the adhesives with good hydrophobicity, which enables us to use the adhesives in the presence of water or even under water. This work highlights that the utilization of bio-inspired supramolecular interactions provides us with a straightforward and viable strategy for fabricating high performance biomass-based polymeric materials.

It is starting to become a big trend in the era of social networking that people produce and upload user-generated contents to Internet via wireless networks, bringing a significant burden on wireless uplink networks. In this paper, we contribute to designing and theoretical understanding of wireless cache-enabled upload transmission in a delay-tolerant small cell network to relieve the burden, and then propose the corresponding scheduling policies for the small base station (SBS) under the infinite and finite cache sizes. Specifically, the cache ability introduced by SBS enables SBS to eliminate the redundancy among the upload contents from users. This strategy not only alleviates the wireless backhual traffic congestion from SBS to a macro base station (MBS), but also improves the transmission efficiency of SBS. We then investigate the scheduling schemes of SBS to offload more data traffic under caching size constraint. Moreover, two operational regions for the wireless cache-enabled upload network, namely, the delay-limited region and the cache-limited region, are established to reveal the fundamental tradeoff between the delay tolerance and the cache ability. Finally, numerical results are provided to demonstrate the significant performance gains of the proposed wireless cache-enabled upload network., Comment: submitted to IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech., Sep. 2016