On November 18, 2023, the team led by Professor Chunhong Ma from the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Shandong University published research findings titled "ZHX2 emerges as a negative regulator of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation during acute liver injury" online in Nature Communications. The study revealed the significant role of the transcription factor ZHX2 in acute liver injury. Professor Chunhong Ma and Professor Xuetian Yue from the School of Basic Medical Sciences at Shandong University served as co-corresponding authors, with Yankun Zhang, a postdoctoral researcher from the same institution, as the first author. Shandong University was both the first author and the corresponding author unit.