Guided deletion and mutagenesis analysis identified a tMEK2-responsive region in tomato lepr1b1 promoter
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Abstract
tMEK2MUT is a constitutively activated form of tMEK2, a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MAPKK). Overexpression of tMEK2MUT in tomato results in transcriptionally upregulated expression of PR1b1, a pathogenesis-related (PR) protein. To identify the responsive regions in the lepr1b1 promoter, Arabidopsis homologues to known mammalian and yeast transcription factors (TFs) downstream of MAPKs in MAPK pathways were identified through database searches. Binding sites in the lepr1b1 promoter for these homologous TFs were analyzed using Transfac, a TF database, and MatInspector program. The analysis indicated that the promoter contains potential binding sites for two TFs, Elf1 and AP1. A protoplast transient expression system was used in deletion and mutagenesis analysis. Mutation of the Elf1 binding site blocked activation of the LePR1b1 gene by tMEK2MUT. Mutation of the AP1 binding sites and of the GCC or W box, two regulatory elements found in some defense-related genes, had no effect on the expression of PR1b1. Our findings suggest that Elf1 is a downstream TF from MAPKK tMEK2 and is involved in mediating LePR1b1 gene expression in defense-related MAPK pathways
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 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)
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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".