Calf-Thymus DNA Interaction with Cr(III)-Gallate and Cr(III)-Ethyl Gallate Studied by FTIR Spectroscopy and Capillary Electrophoresis
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Abstract
Abstract Cr(VI) salts are well known to be carcinogen, and are reduced by various cellular components to form cross-linked Cr(III) products. Organic compounds, such as gallic acid (GA) and ethyl gallate (EGA), reduce Cr(VI) to Cr(III) to form Cr(III)-gallate [Cr(III)-GA] and Cr(III)-ethyl gallate [Cr(III)-EGA] as final products. These Cr(III)-tannin complexes are DNA binders. The interaction of calf-thymus DNA with Cr(III)-GA and Cr(III)-EGA in aqueous solutions at physiological pH were studied at Cr(III)/DNA (phosphate) molar ratios (r) of 1 : 160, 1 : 80, 1 : 40, 1 : 20, 1 : 10, 1 : 4, and 1 : 2 using FTIR spectroscopy and capillary electrophoresis. An analysis by FTIR showed that at low concentrations (r = 1/80 and 1/40), Cr(III)-GA and Cr(III)–EGA mainly bind to the guanine N-7 atom of the G–C base pairs with minor perturbations of the A–T base pairs. At r > 1/20, a partial helix opening occurred with major perturbations of the G–C and A–T base pairs. At r > 1/10, aggregation of the Cr(III)-tannin–DNA complexes occurred. However, no DNA conformational changes were observed, and the DNA maintained the B-family structure. The binding constants of the Cr(III)-GA–DNA and Cr(III)-EGA–DNA were estimated to be 3.8 × 104 M−1 and 6.2 × 104 M−1, respectively, by Scatchard plots following capillary electrophoresis. These results suggest that the Cr(III)-tannin complexes are external DNA binders, and do not form a chelate with the DNA.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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