Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28942130›Full record

ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2017

Biosynthesis and structure-activity relationships of the lipid a family of glycolipids.

Xirui Xiao, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, Chaitan Khosla

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Quantifying Regulated Mitochondrial Fission in Macrophages.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  15. Lipopolysaccharide Preparation Derived FromFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021
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  19. Tunable Enzymatic Synthesis of the Immunomodulator Lipid IVJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xirui XiaoDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Karthik SankaranarayananDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Chaitan KhoslaDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; Stanford ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States. Electronic address: khosla@stanford.edu.
Stanford University · US

Funding

Translational Incubator CoreU19AI109662 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GLENN, JEFFREY S · 2014 to 2019
$28.6M
NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI109662
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a glycolipid found in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, is a potent elicitor of innate immune responses in mammals. A typical LPS molecule is composed of three different structural domains: a polysaccharide called the O-antigen, a core oligosaccharide, and Lipid A. Lipid A is the amphipathic glycolipid moiety of LPS. It stimulates the immune system by tightly binding to Toll-like receptor 4. More recently, Lipid A has also been shown to activate intracellular caspase-4 and caspase-5. An impressive diversity is observed in Lipid A structures from different Gram-negative bacteria, and it is well established that subtle changes in chemical structure can result in dramatically different immune activities. For example, Lipid A from Escherichia coli is highly toxic to humans, whereas a biosynthetic precursor called Lipid IV

Indexed as

AnimalsBiosynthetic PathwaysGlycolipidsGram-Negative BacteriaGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsHumansImmunity, InnateLipid AToll-Like ReceptorsGlycolipidsLipid AToll-Like Receptors

Identifiers

PMID28942130
PMCPMC5696077
OpenAlexW2755464515

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