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Record W4253817409 · doi:10.1093/jexbot/52.359.1239

The cloning and characterization of α‐galactosidase present during and following germination of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) seed

2001· article· en· W4253817409 on OpenAlex
J. Allan Feurtado, Mitali Banik, J. Derek Bewley

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Experimental Botany · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicEnzyme Production and Characterization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEndospermBiologyGerminationLycopersiconAmino acidComplementary DNAEndoplasmic reticulumPeptide sequenceGeneBiochemistryBotany

Abstract

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α‐Galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.22) is present in the embryo, micropylar and lateral endosperm of seeds of tomato during and following germination. Its activity is unchanged even when germination of the seeds is prevented by an osmoticum. It is also present in the developing and mature dry seed. A cDNA clone for tomato seed α‐galactosidase (LeaGal) has been isolated and the characteristics of the protein deduced; the predicted molecular mass of the mature enzyme is 39.8 kDa, with a pI of 4.91. The tomato α‐galactosidase has a high homology (>62%) at the amino acid level with that of other plant α‐galactosidases. A hydrophobic signal peptide region is identified which is indicative that the enzyme enters the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum during its translation, prior to its export to the protein body or cell wall, the presumed sites of its substrates. Using amino acid alignment and phylogenetic analysis, key amino acids have been identified, and relationships to other α‐galactosidases inferred. Southern hybridization analyses show that the enzyme is derived from a single gene (for which a partial sequence has been obtained) and yet there are at least three different isoforms within the seed; post‐translational modifications are thus presumed to occur. From Northern hybridization studies it is evident that α‐galactosidase transcripts are present in the lateral and micropylar endosperm during and following germination, and also to a lesser extent in the embryo.

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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)0.000
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 score0.056
Threshold uncertainty score0.225

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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 head0.005
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.233 · 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