Evidence map›Paper›PMID 9677303›Full record

ReviewThe Biochemical journal1998

Phosphoinositide 3-kinase: the key switch mechanism in insulin signalling.

P R Shepherd, D J Withers, K Siddle

Erratum issuedOpen access · bronzeAbstract readReview
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Review in The Biochemical journal, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 224 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
224citing papers in PubMed
30.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

224 citing papers in PubMed, 957 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Endothelial Dysfunction in Obesity and Therapeutic Targets.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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  14. Cells · 2023
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164 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

P R ShepherdDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. p.shepard@biochem.ucl.ac.uk
D J Withers
K Siddle
University College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insulin plays a key role in regulating a wide range of cellular processes. However, until recently little was known about the signalling pathways that are involved in linking the insulin receptor with downstream responses. It is now apparent that the activation of class 1a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) is necessary and in some cases sufficient to elicit many of insulin's effects on glucose and lipid metabolism. The lipid products of PI 3-kinase act as both membrane anchors and allosteric regulators, serving to localize and activate downstream enzymes and their protein substrates. One of the major ways these lipid products of PI 3-kinase act in insulin signalling is by binding to pleckstrin homology (PH) domains of phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase (PDK) and protein kinase B (PKB) and in the process regulating the phosphorylation of PKB by PDK. Using mechanisms such as this, PI 3-kinase is able to act as a molecular switch to regulate the activity of serine/threonine-specific kinase cascades important in mediating insulin's effects on endpoint responses.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansInsulinPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesSignal TransductionInsulinPhosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases

Identifiers

PMID9677303
PMCPMC1219607
OpenAlexW1841050729

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