Publications by authors named "Zixin Jiang"

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  • Lysine lactylation (Kla) is a novel histone modification that influences transcription but its role in cancer, particularly cervical cancer, is not well understood.
  • *In cervical cancer cells, increased lactate levels enhance histone lactylation, specifically at the H3K14 position, suggesting a link between metabolism and gene regulation.
  • *The study identifies DPF2 as a key protein that interacts with H3K14la, and disrupting this interaction negatively impacts the expression of oncogenes and cell survival, highlighting the importance of this modification in cancer biology.
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Building energy modeling (BEM) is fundamental for achieving optimized energy control, resilient retrofit designs, and sustainable urbanization to mitigate climate change. However, traditional BEM requires detailed building information, expert knowledge, substantial modeling efforts, and customized case-by-case calibrations. This process must be repeated for every building, thereby limiting its scalability.

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Hypoxia promotes tumorigenesis and lactate accumulation in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Lactate can induce histone lysine lactylation (Kla, a recently identified histone marks) to regulate transcription. However, the functional consequence of histone Kla under hypoxia in ESCC remains to be explored.

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Histone modifications are typically recognized by chromatin-binding protein modules (referred to as 'readers') to mediate fundamental processes such as transcription. Lysine β-hydroxybutyrylation (Kbhb) is a new type of histone mark that couples metabolism to gene expression. However, the readers that prefer histone Kbhb remain elusive.

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The electrochemical synthesis of ammonia is highly dependent on the coupling reaction between nitrate and water, for which an electrocatalyst with a multifunctional interface is anticipated to promote the deoxygenation and hydrogenation of nitrate with water. Herein, by engineering the surface of bimetallic Ni/Co-MOFs (NiCoBDC) with hydrogen-substituted graphdiyne (HsGDY), a hybrid nanoarray of NiCoBDC@HsGDY with a multifunctional interface has been achieved toward scale-up of the nitrate-to-ammonia conversion. On the one hand, a partial electron transfers from Ni to the coordinatively unsaturated Co on the surface of NiCoBDC, which not only promotes the deoxygenation of *NO on Co but also activates the water-dissociation to *H on Ni.

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This systematic review and meta-analysis examines similarities and differences in intrusive parenting between mothers and fathers and relations between intrusive parenting and early childhood development. The authors integrated 55 studies and differentiated cognitive skills and socio-emotional problems as developmental outcomes. The present study employs three-level meta-analyses to reliably estimate effect sizes and examine a range of moderators.

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  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, higher outdoor air flow requirements for ventilation systems increased building energy consumption, prompting the need for energy-efficient strategies to mitigate infection risks.
  • The study developed an occupant-number-based model predictive control (OBMPC) algorithm, using occupancy and HVAC data to predict room occupancy with up to 95% accuracy in short-term forecasts.
  • The OBMPC model can significantly reduce energy loads by about 52% while maintaining low infection risk levels, but uncertainties in occupancy predictions can lead to notable variations in ventilation demand, temperature, and airflow rates.
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This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various building types in both commercial and residential sectors. This is a comprehensive global database about building occupant behavior. The database includes occupancy patterns (i.

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Objective: The urea-to-albumin ratio (UAR), as a new marker of the systemic inflammatory response, is associated with the mortality in pneumonia patients. However, the association between the UAR and in-hospital mortality in severe pneumonia (SP) has received little attention.

Methods: In this single-center retrospective cohort study, 212 SP patients in intensive care unit (ICU) from June 1, 2016, to June 1st, 2020, with baseline UAR were enrolled.

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Tetracyclines (TC) are a common antibiotic for using in livestock breeding and healthcare; however, due to the inappropriate application of TCs, more than 75% of TCs are excreted and released into the environment in an active form through human and animal urine and feces, which results in high levels of TCs in the ecological system, causing adverse effects on the food safety and human health. Thus, the high-performance monitoring of TC pollution is necessary. In this work, a highly sensitive fluorescent aptasensor was developed that was based on graphene oxide (GO) regulation of low background signal and target-induced fluorescence restoration.

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Water pollution arising from heavy metal ions continues to be a major environmental problem, which represents a serious threat to human beings and animals worldwide. New materials that can simultaneously detect and remove these toxic ions are urgently required. Herein, nitrogen and sulfur co-doped molybdenum selenide nanosheets (N, S-MoSe) were prepared and found to be fluorescently responsive to mercury (II) with an improved adsorption capacity (208.

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A large amount of tetracycline (TC) persists in water, soil, food, and feed due to the overuse of antibiotics, causing serious environmental problems such as damage to ecosystems and posing risks to human health. Thus, there is an urgent need to find a method to detect TC that is practical, rapid, sensitive, and offers ready visualization of TC levels so that adequate remediation measures can be immediately implemented. Herein, we report a fluorescent and colorimetric dual-mode nanosensor for the detection of TC based on reduced state carbon dots (r-CDs).

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Porcine circovirus type 3 (PCV3) is a new member of Circovirus, which could cause various symptoms in infected pigs. It has been reported in many countries and detected from various animals. This study retrospectively analyzed serum samples that were randomly collected from 1,499 clinically healthy cattle in Shandong province from 2011 to 2018.

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The infection and spread of pathogens (e.g., COVID-19) pose an enormous threat to the safety of human beings and animals all over the world.

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Objective: To investigate the regulatory effect of microRNA-141 (miR-141) on expression of high mobility group protein B1(HMGB1) in human monocytes THP-1 cell line.

Methods: THP-1 cells were transfected with miR-141 mimic or inhibitor (100 nmol/L) for 48 hours with lipofectamine RNAi MAX. The levels of miR-141 and HMGB1 mRNA in the THP-1 cells were detected by real-time fluorescence quantitation reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and HMGB1 protein was determined with Western blotting.

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