Characterization of Human Antigenic Proteins SchS21 and SchS34 from <i>Stachybotrys chartarum</i>
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: SchS21 and SchS34 are proteins from Stachybotrys chartarum sensu latto that are antigenic in goats, mice and humans. Monoclonal antibodies to these proteins react with spores of S. chartarum and S. chlorohalonata but do not cross-react with a diverse taxonomic and ecological array of other fungi. METHODS: Based on partial sequences of the 21- and 34-kDa proteins, obtained from tandem mass spectra and Edman degradation, degenerate primers were designed for touchdown PCR and the resulting amplicons were sequenced. Subsequently, inverse-PCR was used to obtain genomic DNA sequences encoding SchS21 and SchS34. RT-PCR products were sequenced to predict the mature protein sequences of SchS21 and SchS34. Based on the speculation that SchS21 protein was a DNase, the enzymatic properties were investigated. RESULTS: Sequences of 435 and 666 bp in length were obtained from SchS21 and SchS34 cDNAs. The SchS21 open reading frame encodes a mature protein of 144 amino acids, while that of SchS34 is 221 amino acids in length. SchS21 is a secretory, alkaline, Mg-dependent exodeoxyribonuclease, while SchS34 is a secretory protein of unknown function. His-tagged forms of the mature SchS21 and SchS34 proteins were separately overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified using Ni-NTA columns (0.5 mg/l yield). CONCLUSIONS: Based on Western blots, the expressed proteins were similar in molecular weight and bound to the respective monoclonal antibodies to SchS21 and SchS34 proteins from S. chartarum. Interactions with human sera IgE confirmed the expressed forms of SchS21 and SchS34 as naturally occurring allergens.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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".