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Record W2185094375 · doi:10.1007/0-306-47954-0_57

Organization of Photosynthesis Gene Transcripts

2006· book-chapter· en· W2185094375 on OpenAlexaff
J. Thomas Beatty

Bibliographic record

VenueKluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicPhotosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnoxygenic photosynthesisRhodobacterOperonBiologyGenePhotosynthesisTranscription (linguistics)GeneticsPromoterPurple bacteriaBacteriaGymnospermPhototrophBotanyPhotosynthetic reaction centreGene expressionEscherichia coli

Abstract

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Clusters of genes that encode pigment biosynthesis and pigment-binding proteins have been found in several species of anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria. Transcripts in excess of ten kilobases in length have been found to encode what were previously thought to be separate operons with independent promoters in Rhodobacter capsulatus. This transcriptional organization of operons is called a superoperon, and is important for efficient transition in metabolism when cells are shifted from aerobic respiratory to anaerobic photosynthetic growth conditions. Since some key features of superoperons are present in other species of photosynthetic bacteria, the clustering of photosynthesis genes may have been evolutionarily conserved because of advantages accrued to cells that have linked transcription units into superoperons. The evidence for the types of transcription units in several species of anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria is summarized and compared, with an emphasis on unifying patterns of transcript organization. Because much of the data are not conclusive, some of the conclusions are somewhat speculative in nature. Since more is known about transcripts of Rb. capsulatus, it is used as a model for the other species. The reader is advised to consult recent reviews of related areas (Wellington et al., 1992; Klug, 1993).

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.006

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.204
Teacher spread0.194 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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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Published2006
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