Chemical characterization of a lambda I amyloid protein isolated from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue sections
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Amyloid protein was isolated from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded heart tissue sections from a patient with primary (AL) amyloidosis by extraction with 6 M guanidine HCl. SDS-PAGE analysis of extracted material showed a major band at 16 kDa and a minor band at 18 kDa. Edman degradation analysis before and after pyroglutamate aminopeptidase treatment showed that the amyloid protein contained N-terminal pyroglutamic acid and was derived from an immunoglobulin lambda light chain. Analysis of tryptic peptides from the extract identified the amyloid protein as a lambda I. Of particular interest is that almost the entire amyloid protein amino acid sequence could be obtained from the cardiac sections. These results demonstrate that formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections can be used for extensive biochemical characterization of amyloid proteins and will become a valuable source for isolation and extensive biochemical characterization of amyloid proteins as they are now a valuable source for isolation of DNA for genetic analysis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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.
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".