Multiple endocytic signals in the C-terminal tail of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator
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Abstract
The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA)-activated chloride channel that is localized to the plasma membrane and endosomal compartment. Endosomal targeting of CFTR is attributed to the Tyr(1424)-based internalization signal, identified in the C-terminal tail of the channel. Mutation of the Tyr(1424) residue could partly inhibit the endocytosis of CFTR and its association with the adapter protein AP-2. To reveal additional endosomal targeting signals, site-directed mutagenesis of both a chimaera, composed of a truncated form of interleukin 2 receptor alpha chain (TacT) and the C-terminal tail of CFTR (Ct), and the full-length CFTR was performed. Morphological and functional assays revealed the presence of multiple internalization motifs at the C-terminus, consisting of a phenylalanine-based motif (Phe(1413)) and a bipartite endocytic signal, comprising a tyrosine (Tyr(1424)) and a di-Leu-based (Leu(1430)-Leu) motif. Whereas the replacement of any one of the three internalization motifs with alanine prevented the endocytosis of the TacT-Ct chimaera, mutagenesis of Phe(1413)-Leu impaired the biosynthetic processing of CFTR, indicating that Phe(1413) is indispensable for the native structure of CFTR. In contrast, replacement of Leu(1430)-Leu- and Tyr(1424)-based signals with alanine increased the cell-surface density of both the chimaeras and CFTR in an additive manner. These results suggest that the internalization of CFTR is regulated by multiple endocytic sorting signals.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".