Decreased Expression of Specific Genes in Yeast Cells Lacking Histone H1
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Abstract
Chromatin plays an important role in regulating eukaryotic gene expression. Chromatin is composed of DNA wrapped around a nucleosome core (consisting of two copies of the well conserved histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) and a more variable linker histone H1. Various in vitro and in vivo studies have implicated histone H1 as a repressor of gene expression or as an activator, but its exact role is still unclear. Sequencing of the yeast genome has led to the identification of a putative histone H1 gene. Biochemical studies demonstrated that yeast does indeed possess a bona fide histone H1. However, deletion of the unique yeast H1 gene is not associated with any phenotypes, and it was questioned whether it plays any role. To address this issue, we performed whole-genome microarray analysis to identify genes that are affected by H1 removal. Surprisingly, deletion of the gene encoding histone H1 does not result in increased gene expression but rather in a modest reduction. Northern blot analysis of selected genes confirmed the results obtained with the microarray analysis. A similar effect was observed with an integrated lacZ reporter. Thus, our data demonstrate that removal of yeast histone H1 only results in decreased gene expression.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 |
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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".