Endosomal proteolysis of diphtheria toxin without toxin translocation into the cytosol of rat liver <i>in vivo</i>
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Abstract
A detailed proteolysis study of internalized diphtheria toxin (DT) within rat liver endosomes was undertaken to determine whether DT-resistant species exhibit defects in toxin endocytosis, toxin activation by cellular enzymes or toxin translocation to its cytosolic target. Following administration of a saturating dose of wild-type DT or nontoxic mutant DT (mDT) to rats, rapid endocytosis of the intact 62-kDa toxin was observed coincident with the endosomal association of DT-A (low association) and DT-B (high association) subunits. Assessment of the subsequent post-endosomal fate of internalized mDT revealed a sustained endo-lysosomal transfer of the mDT-B subunit accompanied by a net decrease in intact mDT and mDT-A subunit throughout the endo-lysosomal apparatus. In vitro proteolysis of DT, using an endosomal lysate, was observed at both neutral and acidic pH, with the subsequent generation of DT-A and DT-B subunits (pH 7) or DT fragments with low ADP-ribosyltransferase activity (pH 4). Biochemical characterization revealed that the neutral endosomal DT-degrading activity was due to a novel luminal 70-kDa furin enzyme, whereas the aspartic acid protease cathepsin D (EC 3.4.23.5) was identified as being responsible for toxin degradation at acidic pH. Moreover, an absence of in vivo association of the DT-A subunit with cytosolic fractions was identified, as well as an absence of in vitro translocation of the DT-A subunit from cell-free endosomes into the external milieu. Based on these findings, we propose that, in rat, resistance to DT may originate from two different mechanisms: the ability of free DT-A subunits to be rapidly proteolyzed by acidic cathepsin D within the endosomal lumen, and/or the absence of DT translocation across the endosomal membrane, which may arise from the absence of a functional cytosolic translocation factor previously reported to participate in the export of DT from human endosomes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 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.
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