Faculty Opinions recommendation of Crystal structure of the phage T4 recombinase UvsX and its functional interaction with the T4 SF2 helicase UvsW.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bacteriophage T4 provides an important model system for studying the mechanism of homologous recombination.We have determined the crystal structure of the T4 UvsX recombinase, and the overall architecture and fold closely resembles that of RecA, including a highly conserved ATP binding site.Based on this new structure, we reanalyzed EM reconstructions of UvsX-DNA filaments and docked the UvsX crystal structure into two different filament forms, a compressed filament generated in the presence of ADP and an elongated filament generated in the presence of ATP and aluminum fluoride.In these reconstructions, the ATP binding site sits at the protomer interface, as in the RecA filament crystal structure.However, the environment of the ATP binding site is altered in the two filament reconstructions, suggesting that nucleotide cannot be as easily accommodated at the protomer interface of the compressed filament.Finally, we show that the phage helicase UvsW completes the UvsX-promoted strandexchange reaction, allowing the generation of simple nicked circular product rather than complex networks of partially exchanged substrates.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.038 |
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".