Early evolutionary loss of the lipid A modifying enzyme PagP resulting in innate immune evasion in <i>Yersinia pestis</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Significance Immune evasion is a hallmark of Yersinia pestis pathogenesis, including loss of pathogen-associated patterns recognized by Toll-like receptors. During its life cycle, Y. pestis alternates between mammalian hosts and arthropod transmission vectors and concurrently remodels its membrane, specifically modifying the structure of the lipid A portion of its lipopolysaccharide recognized by TLR4-MD2. Genomic analysis identified a single-nucleotide polymorphism that results in a premature stop in translation of the lipid A acyltransferase pagP , resulting in synthesis of a stealthy, hypoacylated lipid A structure absent in other Yersiniaceae. This provides evidence of lipid A as a crucial determinant in Y. pestis infectivity, pathogenesis, and host innate immune evasion and represents one of the earliest identified adaptations of Y. pestis from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis .
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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".