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Record W2426534299 · doi:10.1007/978-1-59745-442-1_4

Preparation and Characterization of Posttranslationally Modified Tubulins From Artemia franciscana

2007· article· en· W2426534299 on OpenAlex
Paul A. O’Connell, Thomas H. MacRae

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Bibliographic record

VenueMethods in molecular medicine · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicrotubule and mitosis dynamics
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTubulinGene isoformIsoelectric focusingMicrotubuleMolecular biologyBiologyBiochemistryPolyacrylamide gel electrophoresisCoomassie Brilliant BluePolyclonal antibodiesStainingGel electrophoresisChemistryCell biologyGeneAntibodyEnzymeGenetics

Abstract

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Tubulin heterogeneity within eukaryotic cells is generated by differential gene expression and posttranslational modification of alpha- and beta-tubulin gene products, either as heterodimers or when polymerized into microtubules. The characterization of posttranslationally modified tubulins from the crustacean Artemia franciscana is presented, although tubulins from other sources can be studied with these procedures. Tubulin is prepared from cell free extracts by taxol-induced assembly and centrifugation of microtubules through sucrose cushions, which also yields microtubule-associated proteins, or it is purified to apparent homogeneity by relatively simple chromatographic procedures and assembly/disassembly steps. To detect posttranslationally modified tubulins protein samples are electrophoresed in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gels, blotted to nitrocellulose membranes and probed with isoform-specific antibodies. Isotubulins, for which gene-encoded amino acid differences and posttranslational modifications generate charge variations, are resolved in two-dimensional gels using isoelectric focusing followed by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, a procedure useful for resolution of microtubule-associated proteins. Isoforms patterns are visualized by Coomassie blue and/or silver staining and individual isoforms are identified by antibody reactivity on Western blots. Tubulin isoforms are localized in Artemia by immunofluorescent staining of larvae. The focus of this chapter is the purification of tubulin from a nonneural source and characterization of tyrosinated, detyrosinated, and nontyrosinatable alpha-tubulins using polyclonal antibodies made to carboxy-terminal peptides of each isoform.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.385
Threshold uncertainty score0.448

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.345
Teacher spread0.331 · 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