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Record W1260187407 · doi:10.1128/9781555815578.ch19

A New Look at Secondary Metabolites

2014· book-chapter· en· W1260187407 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueASM Press eBooks · 2014
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicBacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuorum sensingHomoserineBiologyBacteriaCell signalingBiochemistryAntibiotic resistanceAntibioticsMicrobiologySignal transductionBiofilmGenetics

Abstract

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In syntrophic interactions, metabolic pathways are integrated over different cell types. This chapter focuses on two seemingly well-defined groups of secondary metabolites, quorum-sensing signals and antibiotics, to demonstrate that their described biological activities do not necessarily define their functional roles in microbial communities. The study of the biology of living organisms and associated biochemical processes has, to date, focused primarily on the structures and functions of DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and their macromolecular complexes. Many bacteria regulate gene expression in response to accumulation of secondary metabolites, and this behavior has been collectively referred to as quorum sensing or cell-cell communication. The generalization of quorum sensing as a density-dependent process ignores the reality that most bacteria do not exist in well-stirred reactors and the signaling will largely be a local event between small groups of cells. The dual role of quorum-sensing signal and antibiotic is not exclusive to nisin, subtilin, and mercascidin peptide antibiotics. A bactericidal activity produced by a strain of Rhizobium leguminosarum that inhibited the growth of several related strains was purified and demonstrated to be a typical acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) [N-(3-hydroxy-7-cis-tetradecenoyl)-L-homoserine lactone]. The streptomycin and chloramphenicol resistance determinants were later shown to catalyze chemical inactivation of the corresponding antibiotic. In addition to the widespread occurrence of antibiotic resistance mechanisms, it has become apparent in recent years that there are many naturally occurring systems that interfere with cell-cell signaling pathways.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.656
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it