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Characterization of Amino Acids Critical in Transport and Selectivity of the Plant Na+/H+ Exchanger Plasma Membrane SOS1

2025· preprint· en· W4407037372 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Asad Ullah, Debajyoti Dutta, Larry Fliegel

Bibliographic record

VenuePreprints.org · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant nutrient uptake and metabolism
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsAntiporterMutantAmino acidChemistryBiochemistryArabidopsis thalianaMutationMembraneWild typeBiologyBiophysicsCell biologyGene

Abstract

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SOS1 is the plant membrane Na+/H+ antiporter of Arabidopsis thaliana and is the major transporter extruding Na+ across the plasma membrane of cells in exchange for an intracellular H+. The first 450 amino acid are the membrane transport domain. We examined nine different mutations that may either change specificity or improve salt tolerance. E261K had minor negative effects on the ability to confer LiCl and NaCl tolerance. Mutation A399V had minor effects lowering LiCl tolerance and slightly improving NaCl tolerance as did the double mutant E261KA399V. Four different mutations of amino acid Y346 had varying effects. The Y346R mutation resulted in a major improvement in LiCl tolerance but did not affect NaCl tolerance. The L375I mutant was impaired in NaCl tolerance and the Q362L mutant had minor effects on salt tolerance. Our results demonstrate that amino acid Y346 is critical in ion selectivity and its mutation can dramatically improve LiCl salt tolerance. Some other mutations showed minor improvements in the ability to confer NaCl tolerance (Y346F, A399V, Y346F and Y346A) leaving open the possibility that such mutations might improve salt tolerance in intact plant species.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

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 integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.074
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.199 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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