Band 3 function and dysfunction in a structural context
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Current research on the human band 3 glycoprotein, the red cell chloride/bicarbonate anion exchanger (AE1), is highlighted and placed within a structural context. RECENT FINDINGS: The determination of the crystal structure of the membrane domain of human band 3, the founding member of the solute carrier 4 (SLC4) family of bicarbonate transporters, is a major breakthrough toward understanding the mechanism of action of this membrane transport protein, its interaction with partner proteins, and how mutations linked to disease affect its ability to fold and function. SUMMARY: Band 3 contains 14 transmembrane segments arranged in a 7+7 transmembrane inverted repeat topology common to all members of the SLC4 family and the unrelated SLC26 anion transporter family. A functional feature of this fold is the presence of a core and a gate domain: the core domain contains two short transmembrane helices (TM3 and 10) that face each other in the middle of the membrane with the positive N-terminal helix dipoles creating the anion-binding site, whereas the gate domain forms the dimer interface. During transport, the movement of these two domains relative to each other provides the intracellular and extracellular compartments with alternating access to the central anion-binding site.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".