Characterization of scorpion α‐like toxin group using two new toxins from the scorpion <i>Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus</i>
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Abstract
Two novel toxins, Lqh6 and Lqh7, isolated from the venom of the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus, have in their sequence a molecular signature (8Q/KPE10) associated with a recently defined group of alpha-toxins that target Na channels, namely the alpha-like toxins [reviewed in Gordon, D., Savarin, P., Gurevitz, M. & Zinn-Justin, S. (1998) J. Toxicol. Toxin Rev. 17, 131-159]. Lqh6 and Lqh7 are highly toxic to insects and mice, and inhibit the binding of alpha-toxins to cockroach neuronal membranes. Although they kill rodents by intracerebroventricular injection, they do not inhibit the binding of antimammal alpha-toxins (e.g. Lqh2) to rat brain synaptosomes, not even at high concentrations. Furthermore, in voltage-clamp experiments, rat brain Na channels IIA (rNav1.2A) expressed in Xenopus oocytes are not affected by Lqh6 nor by Lqh7 below 3 micro m. In contrast, muscular Na channels (rNav1.4 and hNav1.5) expressed in the same cells respond to nanomolar concentrations of Lqh6 and Lqh7 by slowing of Na current inactivation and a leftward shift of the peak conductance-voltage curve. The structural and pharmacological properties of the new toxins are compared to those of other scorpion alpha-toxins in order to re-examine the hallmarks previously set for the alpha-like toxin group.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".