STAT5 Is Essential for Akt/p70S6 Kinase Activity during IL-2-Induced Lymphocyte Proliferation
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Abstract
IL-2R activates two distinct signaling pathways mediated by the adaptor protein Shc and the transcription factor STAT5. Prior mutagenesis studies of the IL-2R have indicated that the Shc and STAT5 pathways are redundant in the ability to induce lymphocyte proliferation. Yet paradoxically, T cells from STAT5-deficient mice fail to proliferate in response to IL-2, suggesting that the Shc pathway is unable to promote mitogenesis in the genetic absence of STAT5. Here we show in the murine lymphocyte cell line Ba/F3 that low levels of STAT5 activity are essential for Shc signaling. In the absence of STAT5 activity, Shc was unable to sustain activation of the Akt/p70S6 kinase pathway or promote lymphocyte proliferation and viability. Restoring STAT5 activity via a heterologous receptor rescued Shc-induced Akt/p70S6 kinase activity and cell proliferation with kinetics consistent with a transcriptional mechanism. Thus, STAT5 appears to regulate the expression of one or more unidentified components of the Akt pathway. Our results not only explain the severe proliferative defect in STAT5-deficient T cells but also provide mechanistic insight into the oncogenic properties of STAT5 in various leukemias and lymphomas.
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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 | 0.001 | 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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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