Genomics of the 35-kb<i>pvd</i>locus and analysis of novel<i>pvdIJK</i>genes implicated in pyoverdine biosynthesis in<i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Novel putative pyoverdine synthetase pvdIJK genes were found upstream of pvdD in the 6.2-Mb chromosome of Pseudomonas aerugilosa strain PAO1. These genes formed a locus implicated in pyoverdine biosynthesis. Sequence analysis showed that the product of these genes shared 43%, 60% and 57% identity with PvdD. PvdIJK are thought to be implicated in synthesis of pyoverdine, a siderophore chelating Fe3+. A pvdI mutant was obtained by gene disruption mutagenesis and confirmed by Southern hybridization. The pvdl mutant produced gave no significant growth on solid media supplemented with the iron chelator 2,2-dipyridyl; while the PvdI- phenotype abolished pyoverdine fluorescence. The role of PvdI in pathogenicity was tested by measuring the in vivo growth of P. aeruginosa wild-type and mutant strains in a chronic lung infection rat model, and by measuring the competitive infectivity index into a neutropenic mice model. The data obtained confirmed the importance of PvdI in virulence and iron uptake.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 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 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".