Metabolic role of the mitochondrial NAD-dependent methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-cyclohydrolase
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Abstract
Folate-dependent enzymes are compartmentalized between the cytoplasm and mitochondria of eukaryotic cells. The cytoplasm contains an NADP-dependent methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase that is involved in interconverting one-carbon substituted tetrahydrofolates that play essential roles in thymidylate and purine biosynthesis as well as in methionine regeneration. The extent of contribution of mitochondrial folate metabolism to cytoplasmic processes is an area of active investigation. A bifunctional NAD-dependent methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase (NMDMC) is located in mitochondria of certain mammalian cells. NMDMC expression in embryonic tissues and established cell lines but not in most adult tissues suggests that it plays a role in embryonic development. Examination of the expression pattern revealed that nmdmc is widely expressed in tissues of embryonic day (E)9.5 and E10.5 embryos. To determine its metabolic role, a knockout approach was used to disrupt the gene encoding NMDMC in mice. Heterozygous mice appear normal but nmdmc-/- embryos die in utero beyond E13.5. Nmdmc-/- fetal livers at E12.5 are smaller in size, lack the characteristic red coloring of a normal liver, but contain similar frequencies of hematopoietic progenitors as do the livers of wild type or heterozygous littermates. This indicates that the failure to establish definitive erythropoiesis in nmdmc-/- embryos is due to the inability of the hematopoietic progenitors to proliferate. Established fibroblasts were generated from wild type, heterozygous and null mutant embryos. Mitochondria of nmdmc-/- cells are structurally intact, retain a membrane potential and do not require NMDMC to support the initiation of protein synthesis. Null mutant fibroblasts are glycine auxotrophs which demonstrates that NMDMC is the only dehydrogenase/cyclohydrolase (synth
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".