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Record W2397002624 · doi:10.1385/1-59259-387-9:129

Reconstitution of Membrane Transporters

2003· article· en· W2397002624 on OpenAlexaff
Frances J. Sharom, Paul D. W. Eckford

Bibliographic record

VenueHumana Press eBooks · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicDrug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransporterATP hydrolysisMembrane transport proteinATPaseLipid bilayerTransport proteinMembrane transportMembraneBiophysicsChemistryMembrane proteinBiochemistryFunction (biology)Cell biologyBiologyEnzymeGene

Abstract

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An important goal for a biochemist studying a membrane transporter is to characterize various aspects of its transport function. Initial studies are often carried out in intact cells, but further work is often directed toward studying the functional properties of the purified protein. Some functions of transport proteins may be studied in detergent solution; for example, if the transporter is driven by ATP hydrolysis, the ATPase catalytic activity may be measured in the absence of actual transport, usually by adding the substrate in the presence of ATP and Mg2+. However, study of the transport process itself can only be carried out in the presence of an impermeable membrane barrier, which necessitates that the transport protein be inserted into a lipid bilayer membrane, a process known as reconstitution. Retention of transport function of the protein is obviously highly desirable, and most reconstitution protocols are designed with this goal in mind. For a detailed discussion of the theory and practice of membrane protein reconstitution, the reader is referred to an excellent review ().

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.003

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 head0.048
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.210 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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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Published2003
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