SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.26.445185: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
<table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Movies were acquired for 10 minutes at 10 frames per second, under illumination with a 532 nm laser at a power of 0.70 µW/µm2, to excite Cy3 fluorophores.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Authentication: 5 Traces containing robust smFRET signals for eIF4E–RNA interaction were selected by visual inspection.</td></tr></table>Table 2: Resources
<table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Luciferase assays: 100 nM CoV firefly luciferase fusion RNA was added to 12 µL of HeLa lysate reaction mix from an in vitro protein expression kit (Thermo Scientific, 88882), along with 0.5 µL of rocaglamide/RocA solution (Med Chem Express, Product No. HY-19356) or 4E2RCat solution (Med Chem Express, Product No. HY-100733) in varying concentrations as indicated in the Results and Discussion.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For preparation of the luciferase fusion construct, DNA fragments containing the class II T7 promoter Φ2.5, followed by the SARS-CoV-2 5’ untranslated region sequence, the coding sequence for firefly luciferase, and the SARS-CoV-2 5’ untranslated region sequence were assembled in a pUC57 vector.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pUC57</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_40306)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The sequence was inserted into pUC119 via SalI and EcoRI restriction sites incorportated during gBlock synthesis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pUC119</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_50010)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Preparation of fluorescently labeled eIF4E and eIF4E(S209D): The pET-28a(+) vectors containing the sequences of eIF4E or eIF4E(S209D), each fused with an N-terminal Protein G tag, were designed similarly to Feokistova et. al., (2013).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pET-28a(+ )</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The pULTRA expression vector, containing inserts encoding tRNACUA and pAzF-tRNACUA-synthetase – a generous gift from Abhishek Chatterjee, Boston College – was co-transformed into an E. coli BL95ΔAΔfabR strain with the pET28a(+)-eIF4E plasmid, and transformants were selected on LB agar containing Kanamycin (50 µg/mL) and Spectinomycin (100 µg/mL).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pULTRA</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_24129)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pET28a(+)-eIF4E</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The full-length human GAPDH transcript sequence, obtained from UCSC Genome Browser, was purchased as a gBlock from IDT.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCSC Genome Browser</div><div>suggested: (UCSC Genome Browser, RRID:SCR_005780)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">48 Event timings identified from ebFRET analysis were converted to empirical cumulative probability distributions for the times between events, and the event durations, then fit with single- or double-exponential models to determine kon or koff, according to the equations:
Fitting was carried out in MATLAB by non-linear least-squares regression using the Trust-Region algorithm.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MATLAB</div><div>suggested: (MATLAB, RRID:SCR_001622)</div></div></td></tr></table>
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
Results from rtransparent: - Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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