Normal function of HERG K<sup>+</sup> channels expressed in HEK293 cells requires basal protein kinase B activity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The potential role of protein kinase B (PKB), a serine/threonine protein kinase, in regulating HERG (human ether-a-go-go related gene) K(+) channel function was investigated. Wortmannin (a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor) caused approximately 30% reduction of HERG current (I(HERG)) stably expressed in HEK293 cells. Transient transfection with the constitutively active PI3K in HERG-expressing HEK293 cells slightly increased ( approximately 7%) I(HERG) while a dominant negative PI3K significantly reduced I(HERG) ( approximately 25%) relative to results in vehicle-transfected cells. I(HERG) was approximately 35% greater in cells transfected with the constitutively activated PKB (caPKB), whereas it was approximately 47% smaller in cells transfected with dominant negative PKB (dnPKB). Basal activation of PKB was detected by immunocytochemistry. PKB activity was significantly enhanced in caPKB-transfected cells and nearly abolished in dnPKB-transfected cells. We conclude that normal HERG function in HEK293 cells requires basal activity of PKB. Our data represent the first evidence that PKB phosphorylation regulates K(+) channels.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".