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Record W4406220520 · doi:10.1139/bcb-2024-0180

How prevalent are lactoferrin receptors in Gram-negative bacteria?

2025· review· en· W4406220520 on OpenAlexafffundvenue
Nikolas F. Ewasechko, David M. Curran, Ken Yu Khaw, Anthony B. Schryvers

Bibliographic record

VenueBiochemistry and Cell Biology · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicInfant Nutrition and Health
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Calgary
FundersDivision of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesInstitute of Infection and ImmunityNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsBiologyReceptorLactoferrinBacteriaMicrobiologyGlycoproteinGram-negative bacteriaTransferrinTransferrin receptorGeneEscherichia coliGeneticsBiochemistry

Abstract

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species and subsequently was discovered in other pathogens of humans and food production animals. These bacterial species reside exclusively on the mucosal surfaces of the respiratory or genitourinary tract of their mammalian host and rely on their host specific Tf and Lf receptors to acquire iron for survival. Since the specificity of the bacterial Tf receptors was shown to be due to selective pressures on the host Tf, their presence in bacteria that reside in both mammals and birds indicates that they arose over 320 million years ago. Once Lf arose in mammals due to a gene duplication event, Lf receptors subsequently arose from Tf receptors. The focus on pathogens for discovery of these receptors has led to a limited understanding of how prevalent the Tf and Lf receptors are in commensal species and raises the question whether they are present in additional bacterial lineages. Since the Lf receptor provides a secondary iron acquisition system plus can provide protection from cationic peptides its presence varies in bacterial lineages.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.289 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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