Telomerase RNA Shapes the Evolutionary Diversity of Telomerase Ribonucleoproteins (RNPs)
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Abstract
Telomerase emerged in early eukaryotes as a highly specialized reverse transcriptase for maintaining chromosome integrity. The telomerase enzyme contains an integral RNA, providing the template for DNA repeat synthesis. This central telomerase RNA not only provides the template but also contributes to the enzyme's catalytic function and the biogenesis of the ribonucleoprotein. Remarkably, telomerase RNA exhibits significant diversity in sequence, structure, and biogenesis across eukaryotic lineages, a feature that sets it apart from other functional RNAs. In ciliates and plants, telomerase RNA is transcribed by RNA polymerase III, whereas in animals and fungi, it is predominantly transcribed by RNA polymerase II. These differences result in distinct pathways for RNA synthesis, maturation, and trafficking. This work highlights how the diversity in size and structure of telomerase RNAs impacts the complexity and evolution of telomerase ribonucleoproteins, spanning from unicellular eukaryotes to multicellular plants and animals, highlighting telomerase RNA's critical role in telomere biology.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".