YsxC is a placeholder for ribosomal protein uL2 during 50S ribosomal subunit assembly
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The maturation of the functional core of the 50S ribosomal subunit in Bacillus subtilis is assisted by assembly factors that enhance the efficiency of the process. Two essential assembly factors, the GTPases RbgA and YphC, bind at or near the functional sites of the 50S subunit to promote the folding of ribosomal RNA helices that play key functional roles. YsxC is another GTPase involved in the maturation of the 50S subunit, whose function remains unknown. We demonstrate that YsxC aids 50S assembly through a drastically different mechanism. YsxC binds in the body of the 44.5S large ribosome assembly intermediate, occupying the site where uL2 binds and controls the timing in the folding of rRNA helices forming the binding site for uL2. It creates a "primordial" binding site that includes six out of the eleven rRNA helices forming the uL2 mature binding site. Once YsxC is released, uL2 binds to this "primordial" binding site, and the remaining helices that stabilize uL2 fold, and the entire region adopts the mature conformation. This role of YsxC functioning as a placeholder factor for ribosomal protein uL2 provides the first example of such a factor's involvement in the ribosome assembly process in bacteria.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".