Functional CTR‐type Cu(I) transporters in an oceanic diatom
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Abstract
Summary Copper concentration is so low in some remote parts of the sea it limits phytoplankton growth, but may be high enough in coastal and estuarine regions to be toxic. Acclimation to variations in Cu concentration thus requires a tightly regulated Cu transport system to help maintain Cu homeostasis. In marine species, the molecular mechanisms of Cu transport are not known. We studied Cu‐responsive genes and uptake in Thalassiosira oceanica at environmentally relevant Cu concentrations varying between 0.012 and 12 900 pmol Cu′ l −1 . Copper uptake rate assessed at high Cu concentration was three‐fold faster in Cu‐limited than in Cu‐replete cells, confirming the existence of an inducible uptake pathway in this diatom. Four putative CTR‐type Cu transporters ( To CTR1, To CTR2, To CTR3a and To CTR3b) identified in the transcriptome shared conserved features with known high‐affinity Cu(I) transporters. Expression of the CTR genes was upregulated as Cu concentration declined and cells maintained maximum rates of growth. Further decreases in Cu led to decreased growth rate and increased abundance of To CTR3a/b. Both To CTR3a and 3b restored growth of a Cu transport mutant, Saccharomyces cerevisiae ctr1Δctr3Δ , in Cu‐deficient medium and increased the uptake rates of Cu(I) and Cu(II). Thus, To CTR3a/3b is a high‐affinity Cu(I) transporter that, in conjunction with the other To CTRs, may enable T. oceanica to survive in Cu‐deplete ocean environments and respond to natural variation in Cu availability.
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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
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| 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) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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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