Development of oriC-plasmids for use in Mycoplasma hyorhinis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Mycoplasma hyorhinis (M. hyorhinis) is an opportunistic pig pathogen, belonging to the class Mollicutes. It causes polyserositis, arthritis and cancers in vitro, increasing attention of the researchers. Currently, there is no available genetic tool to manipulate its genome. This study describes a development of oriC-plasmids harboring either large (pGEMT-LoriC) or minimum (pGEMT-MoriC) origin of replication (oriC) of M. hyorhinis along with tetracycline resistance marker.These plasmids were successfully transformed into M. hyorhinis with average transformation frequency of 1.5 × 10−4 and 2.0 × 10−5 transformants/CFU for pGEMT-LoriC and pGEMT-MoriC respectively, and were integrated at the chromosomal oriC as well as remained freely replicating. We also constructed a Mini-oriC-HT1 targeting plasmid by inclusion of hlyC arms and was used to inactivate hlyC at average frequency of 50%. The efficiency of hlyC inactivation was further improved (by 90%) when Mini-oriC-HT2 that contains E. coli recA was used. In both cases, hemolysin mutant bacteria diminished the ability to lyse mouse RBCs compared to wild-type (P < 0.001). OriC-plasmids described in this study may, therefore open the way for functional genomics in M. hyorhinis. Furthermore, this is a first study demonstrated the gene associated with a hemolytic phenotype in mycoplasmas.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
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.
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".