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Record W2090870468 · doi:10.1186/1753-6561-5-s1-p39

Evaluation of deletion of nuclease genes cluster in L. major

2011· article· en· W2090870468 on OpenAlexaff
Noushin Davoudi, Maryam Hejazi, Zahra Khodayari, Robert McMaster

Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Proceedings · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTrypanosoma species research and implications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNucleaseGeneBiologyGeneticsPurineHomologous recombinationEnzymeBiochemistry

Abstract

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The nuclease is a surface enzyme unique to trypanosomatid parasites. These organisms lack the pathway for de novo purine biosynthesis and thus are entirely dependent upon their hosts to supply this nutrient for their survival, growth, and multiplication. There is a cluster on chromosome 30 which carries 2 copy of nuclease genes and 5 identical nuclease like proteins in L. major which are in cis form with 700-800 bp intergenic regions which have more than 80% homology. These data shows that this enzyme might play an important role in facilitating the survival, growth, and development of this important human pathogen. In previous studies, have been shown that L. major 3′NT/NU which is expressed specifically in promastigotes is not the key molecules involved in host purine salvaging pathway and thus in better understanding parasite strategies adopted to survive in sandflies. Therefore, only deletion of nuclease genes followed by sandfly infections experiments will allow determining its precise role in purine salvaging and sandfly infection and specificity. We have developed nuclease cluster heterozygote and homozygote knockout mutants, with homologous recombination technique, to evaluate deletion effects on survival of parasite and infection.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.703
Threshold uncertainty score0.357

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.130
GPT teacher head0.343
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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