Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40923594›Full record

ArticleeLife2025

The lipocone superfamily, a unifying theme in metabolism of lipids, peptidoglycan and exopolysaccharides, inter-organismal conflicts and immunity.

A Maxwell Burroughs, Gianlucca G Nicastro, L Aravind

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Rapidly evolving aphid gall effector proteins exhibit saposin-like folds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Rapidly evolving aphid gall effector proteins exhibit saposin-like folds.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Differentiating commensal and disease-associatedFrontiers in veterinary science · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

A Maxwell Burroughs *Division of Intramural Research, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2229-8771
Gianlucca G Nicastro *Division of Intramural Research, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3133-2441
L AravindDivision of Intramural Research, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0771-253X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wnt proteins are critical signaling molecules in developmental processes across animals. Despite intense study, their evolutionary roots have remained enigmatic. Using sensitive sequence analysis and structure modeling, we establish that the Wnts are part of a vast assemblage of domains, the Lipocone superfamily, defined here for the first time. It includes previously studied enzymatic domains like the phosphatidylserine synthases (PTDSS1/2) and the TelC toxin domain from

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Lipid MetabolismPeptidoglycanAnimalsHumansPeptidoglycancomputational biologyevolutiongeneticsgenomicsimmunitylipid metabolismnonepeptidoglycansignalingsystems biologyWnt

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PMID40923594
PMCPMC12419801

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