Characterization of Heterologously Expressed Putative Cytolysins from “ <i>Brachyspira hampsonii “</i>
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Abstract
Cytolysins produced by Brachyspira hyodysenteriae and “ Brachyspira hampsonii” strain 30446 are believed to be important virulence factors in the pathology of swine dysentery. To date four putative cytolysin genes termed tlyA, tlyB, tlyC, and hlyA have been identified, all of which are present in both Brachyspira hyodysenteriae and “ Brachyspira hampsonii” . While the contributions of tlyB, tlyC, and hlyA to the pathogenesis of swine dysentery are not yet known, tlyA knockout strains of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae have shown decreased virulence in mouse models. In addition, homologues of tlyA are believed to be important virulence factors for human pathogens such as Helicobacter pylori and Mycobacterium tuberculosis , functioning as both cytolysins and contributing to antibiotic resistance through ribosomal RNA methylation. While active hlyA protein has been purified from Brachyspira hyodysenteriae broth cultures, studies of tlyA, tlyB, and tlyC to date have focused on their activity when introduced into Escherichia coli via plasmid. These results were cast into doubt several years later upon the discovery that many lab strains of Escherichia coli exhibit a hemolytic phenotype when foreign genes were introduced. To examine the effects of these putative cytolysins the tlyA and tlyC genes were amplified from “ Brachyspira hampsonii” genomic DNA and ligated into expression vectors. The resulting protein products were overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified by Ni 2+ and amylose affinity chromatography. Cytolytic activity of purified recombinant tlyA and tlyC on a sheep erythrocyte suspension was examined, and no cytolysis greater than a phosphate buffered saline control was observed from tlyA at concentrations ranging from 0 to 88 μg/mL or from tlyC at concentrations ranging from 0–34 μg/mL. At the time of writing, attempts are being made to express and purify the α‐toxin from Staphylococcus aureus utilizing the same methodology in order to rule out inactivation of tlyA and tlyC by the purification process. While it is also possible that higher concentrations of tlyA and tlyC are required for hemolysis or that full activity of these proteins require unidentified cofactors or post‐translational modifications not possible in our current Escherichia coli based expression system, the possibility that tlyA and tlyC have been misannotated as cytolysins cannot be ruled out. Support or Funding Information Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 371364 /2010 to MEL & Alberta Livestock and Meat Association project 2013R054R to JCH, MEL & JEH
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 teacher head, 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".