Siderophore‐Binding Periplasmatic Protein<scp>Fhu</scp><scp>D</scp>and Related Periplasmic Binding Proteins Involved in Bacterial Iron Uptake
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract To fulfill their nutritional requirement for iron, many microorganisms synthesize low‐molecular‐weight iron‐chelating compounds called siderophores . These iron sources are transported into the gram‐negative bacterial cell via specific uptake pathways that include an outer membrane receptor, a periplasmic binding protein (PBP), and an inner membrane ATP‐binding cassette (ABC) transporter. Gram‐positive bacteria lack an outer membrane, and thus the uptake of the ferric siderophore involves a membrane‐anchored PBP and an ABC transporter. Siderophores are classified as hydroxamate, catecholate, or hydroxycarboxylate type siderophores. This review details what is currently known about the PBP, FhuD (Fhu — ferric hydroxamate uptake), involved in the uptake of hydroxamate‐type siderophores. In addition, several structurally related periplasmic binding proteins that mediate bacterial metal ion transport are also discussed.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 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".