Galectin 3‐binding protein is a potential contaminant of recombinantly produced factor IX
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Haemophilia B, or factor IX (FIX) deficiency, represents 15% of the hereditary haemophilias. The serious morbidity from the transmission of infectious agents in plasma-derived material has mandated a need for the production of recombinant product. The rate-limiting step for the production of recombinant FIX is gamma-carboxylation, a post-translational modification carried out only in mammalian cells. To test the carboxylation efficiency of recombinantly produced FIX in vitro and to improve the isolation of the pure active product, we produced FIX in a transfected human cell line (293 human embryonic kidney cells) and isolated material by immunoaffinity chromatography followed by hydroxyapatite chromatography. Unexpectedly, during hydroxyapatite chromatography, we discovered that purified FIX was contaminated by a heretofore unknown protein. Further analysis by mass spectrometry (MS) sequencing revealed this protein to be galectin-3-binding protein (G3BP). The above results raise an important note of caution regarding the production of recombinant FIX and, indeed, other proteins produced recombinantly in mammalian cells.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".