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    Structural and functional characteristics of the promoter regions of the genes on human chromosome 22

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    The base composition pattern in the putative promoter region (PPRs) up to 5 Kb lengths of 682 human genes on Chromosome 22 (Chr22) was examined. Two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (2-D) functions were designed to delineate the DNA base composition, with four major patterns identified. It is found that 17.6% genes include TATA box, 28.0% GC box, 18.9% CAAT box and 38.4% CpG islands, and approximately 10 % genes have one of four putative initiator motifs. The occurrence of the promoter elements is tightly associated with the base composition features in the promoter regions, and the associations of the base composition features with occurrence of the promoter elements in the promoter regions mediate tissue-wide expression of the genes in human. The occurrence of two or more promoter elements in the promoter regions is required for the medium- and wide-range expression profiles of the human genes on Chr22. Thus, the reported data shed light on the characteristics of the PPRs of the human genes on Chr22, which may improve our understanding of regulatory roles of the PPRs with occurrence of the promoter elements in gene expression

    Investigating the topological structure of quenched lattice QCD with overlap fermions by using multi-probing approximation

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    The topological charge density and topological susceptibility are determined by multi-probing approximation using overlap fermions in quenched SU(3) gauge theory. Then we investigate the topological structure of the quenched QCD vacuum, and compare it with results from the all-scale topological density, the results are consistent. Random permuted topological charge density is used to check whether these structures represent underlying ordered properties. Pseudoscalar glueball mass is extracted from the two-point correlation function of the topological charge density. We study 33 ensembles of different lattice spacing aa with the same lattice volume 163×3216^{3}\times32, the results are compatible with the results of all-scale topological charge density, and the topological structures revealed by multi-probing are much closer to all-scale topological charge density than that by eigenmode expansion.Comment: 12 pages,34 figure

    Giant Magneto-Optical Sch\"{a}fer-Hubert Effect in Two-Dimensional van der Waals Antiferromagnets \textit{M}PS3_3 (\textit{M}=Mn, Fe, Ni)

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    The recent discovery of long-range magnetic order in atomically thin films has triggered particular interest in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials. In this paper, we perform a systematic theoretical study of the magneto-optical Sch\"{a}fer-Hubert effect (MOSHE) in 2D vdW antiferromagnetic \textit{M}PS3_3 (\textit{M} = Mn, Fe, Ni) with multifold intralayer and interlayer magnetic orders. The formula for evaluating the MOSHE in 2D magnets is derived by considering the influence of a non-magnetic substrate. The MOSHE of monolayer and bilayer \textit{M}PS3_3 are considerably large (>2∘>2^{\circ}), originating from the strong anisotropy of in-plane optical conductivity. The Sch\"{a}fer-Hubert rotation angles are surprisingly insensitive to the orientations of the N\'{e}el vector, while the Sch\"{a}fer-Hubert ellipticities are identified to be a good criterion to distinguish different interlayer magnetic orders. Our work establishes a theoretical framework for exploring novel 2D vdW magnets and facilitates the promising applications of the 2D \textit{M}PS3_3 family in antiferromagnetic nanophotonic devices
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