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Record W4408235772 · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-57104-1

Reply to: Do actin isoforms have unique functionalities at the protein level?

2025· letter· en· W4408235772 on OpenAlexafffund
Andrew Wilde

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Communications · 2025
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCellular Mechanics and Interactions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaGovernment of Canada
KeywordsGene isoformActinCell biologyComputational biologyFocus (optics)BiologyGeneticsGenePhysics

Abstract

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The driving force behind our study 1 was to gain molecular and mechanistic insight into observations that different actin isoforms, in particular β- and γ-actin, exhibit markedly different localizations within a single cell 2 , and to interrogate the functions of each isoform in a cellular context where both β- and γ-actin are expressed at endogenous levels. Many labs have postulated that different actin isoform networks interact with a distinct subset of actin-binding proteins, reviewed in ref. 3 . Moreover, recent structural studies suggest that different actin isoforms can interact with the same partners in slightly different ways 4 . As such, the biological roles of each isoform are far from settled. If the β- and γ-actin isoforms perform specialized functions in cells that express both, i.e., the “normal” context, then re-positioning isoform networks by targeting formins to different regions of the cell would also cause actin interactors with an isoform preference to relocalize (mislocalize) along with their preferred network, as seen in Shah et al. 1 . Depending on the actin-binding protein and its precise function, spatiotemporal relocalization would be expected to have consequences for the cell. This is indeed what we found.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.026
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0260.034
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.007

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.269 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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