FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO PHENYLACETYL-COA LIGASES IN BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Burkholderia cenocepacia causes Cepacia syndrome, a fatal pneumonia that affects Cystic Fibrosis patients. Aromatic degradation has been linked to virulence in B. cenocepacia by insertional mutagenesis of genes involved in phenylacetic acid catabolism. B. cenocepacia has two paralogous copies of PaaK, the phenylacetyl-CoA ligase, which produces PA-CoA, the inducer of the pathway. Our objective was to assess a role for PaaK1 and PaaK2 in PA metabolism and virulence by constructing clean deletion mutants for each gene, and a double paaK mutant, as well as to quantify virulence using the nematode host model. Deletion and complementation of paaK1 revealed no change in killing phenotype. Reporter activity assays revealed PaaK1-dependent induction of the PA pathway 3-hydroxyphenylacetic acid but not 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid. Altogether, these results demonstrate that 3-OHPA induces the PA degradation pathway in a paaK1 dependent manner and that PaaK1 is not involved in pathogenicity.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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