A Triplex-Mediated Knot between Separated Polypurine–Polypyrimidine Tracts in Circular DNA Blocks Transcription by <i>Escherichia coli</i> RNA Polymerase
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Polypurine-polypyrimidine tracts are overrepresented in eukaryotes and many have the potential to form triplex DNA. Transmolecular triplexes form between separated but complementary polypurine-polypyrimidine tracts in duplex DNA. Transmolecular triplexes (T-loops) were studied previously using a circular plasmid containing a pair of separated polypurine-polypyrimidine tracts designed to able to form a triplex with each other. T-Loops formed when the nicked plasmid was incubated at low pH in the presence of spermine. When the pH was raised to 8, the T-loops were constrained by a hydrogen-bonded knot composed of multistranded and single-stranded regions. The present experiments used T-loops as a model system to investigate the influence of transmolecular triplex formation on transcription. T-Loops and control open circular, linear, and supercoiled plasmid forms were isolated from bands on agarose gels. Transcription assays were carried out with the isolated plasmid forms and Escherichia coli RNA polymerase holoenzyme and the core enzyme, which lacked sigma70. Transcription was significantly inhibited in T-loop forms compared with control plasmid forms. There was no evidence that the single-stranded regions of T-loops facilitated nonspecific initiation of transcription. Instead, the multistranded component of the hydrogen-bonded knot at the root of the T-loop structure inhibited transcription.
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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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.001 | 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 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".