Determining the effects of salt, buffer, and temperature on the complexation of methylated ammonium ions and methyllysines by sulfonated calixarenes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sulfonated calixarenes have long been used as effective binders of ammonium ions in aqueous solution. Recently, the utility of sulfonated calix[4]arenes and calix[6]arenes as specific agents for binding biologically important ammonium ions, and especially post-translationally methylated amino acids, peptides, and proteins, has suggested that they might have important roles to play in the control and understanding of biological pathways. We report here binding data in various buffer systems that attempt to shed light on the roles of buffer and salt in the recognition processes of these hosts. We also report studies on trimethyllysine binding that explore the effects of near physiological salt concentrations and temperatures. These studies provide an understanding of disparate data on these systems and also demonstrate the ability of a sulfonated calixarene to bind trimethyllysine strongly under aqueous conditions that closely replicate the salt concentrations, pH, and temperature of the human body.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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