Construction and initial characterization of a luminescent<i>Synechococcus</i>sp. PCC 7942 Fe-dependent bioreporter
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 bioreporter strain capable of sensing bioavailable Fe was constructed by fusing the Fe-responsive isiAB promoter to the Vibrio harveyi luxAB genes. Monitoring luxAB-dependent luminescence through the growth curve demonstrated that in Fe-replete media, transcription from the isiAB promoter was induced transiently in the mid-exponential phase of growth. The initiation of transcription was the functional response to a 10-fold depletion of intracellular Fe to approximately 12 amol Fe per cell. Constitutive isiAB-dependent transcription was observed in Fe-depleted growth media. A dose-response relationship of the bioreporter was generated using trace metal-buffered Fraquil medium and was best represented by a sigmoidal curve having a linear component extending between pFe 21.1 (Fe3+=10(-21.1) M) and pFe 20.6 (Fe3+)=10(-20.6) M). Initial field trials conducted using water sampled from Lake Erie demonstrate that the bioreporter can serve as a quantitative tool to assess Fe deficiency in natural freshwater environments.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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".