An Iron-Dependent 5'-Nucleotide PhosphoribohydrolaseActivity in the Venom of Crotalus atrox and Its Effect upon theDetermination of Mammalian Ribonucleotide Reductase
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There is an iron-dependent activity in the venom of Crotalus atrox which appears to hydrolyze the N-glycosidic sugar-base bond of pyrimidine and purine nucleotides. Maximal activation of this activity occurred at 1.0 mmol/l and 0.8 mmol/l FeCl3 for cytidine diphosphate (CDP) and ADP substrates, respectively. The release of free base affects the background values of control experiments carried out during nucleotide-labelled assays of ribonucleotide reductase which require the conversion of nucleotides to nucleosides by snake venom treatment. When the reductase is examined in intact cells, a situation closely resembling normal physiological conditions for the enzyme, FeCl3 was found to be an inhibitor of ADP reductions and varied from a mild stimulator to a significant inhibitor of CDP reductions depending upon FeCl3 concentration. Possible explanations for previously observed variability in ribonucleotide reductase activity in the presence of iron are suggested.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 |
| 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".