Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29844165›Full record

ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

The glycerol backbone of phospholipids derives from noncarbohydrate precursors in starved lung cancer cells.

Katharina Leithner, Alexander Triebl, Martin Trötzmüller, Barbara Hinteregger, Petra Leko, Beatrix I Wieser, Gabriele Grasmann, Alexandra L Bertsch, Thomas Züllig, Elvira Stacher and 7 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Mitochondrial control of glycerolipid synthesis by a PEP shuttle.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Metabolic adaptation of glucose-deprived macrophages involves partial gluconeogenesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Katharina LeithnerDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8036 Graz, Austria; katharina.leithner@medunigraz.at horst.olschewski@medunigraz.at.ORCID 0000-0002-8252-9279
Alexander TrieblCore Facility Mass Spectrometry and Lipidomics, Center for Medical Research (ZMF), Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-8423-8224
Martin TrötzmüllerCore Facility Mass Spectrometry and Lipidomics, Center for Medical Research (ZMF), Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Barbara HintereggerCore Facility Mass Spectrometry and Lipidomics, Center for Medical Research (ZMF), Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Petra LekoDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8036 Graz, Austria.
Beatrix I WieserDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8036 Graz, Austria.
Gabriele GrasmannDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8036 Graz, Austria.
Alexandra L BertschDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8036 Graz, Austria.
Thomas ZülligCore Facility Mass Spectrometry and Lipidomics, Center for Medical Research (ZMF), Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Elvira StacherInstitute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Alessandro ValliWeatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 9DS Oxford, United Kingdom.
Ruth PrasslGottfried Schatz Research Center-Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Andrea OlschewskiLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Adrian L HarrisWeatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, OX3 9DS Oxford, United Kingdom.
Harald C KöfelerCore Facility Mass Spectrometry and Lipidomics, Center for Medical Research (ZMF), Medical University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
Horst OlschewskiDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8036 Graz, Austria; katharina.leithner@medunigraz.at horst.olschewski@medunigraz.at.
Andelko HrzenjakDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, A-8036 Graz, Austria.
Medical University of Graz · ATUniversity of Oxford · GBLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research · AT

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 28692Cancer Research UK 18974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer cells are reprogrammed to consume large amounts of glucose to support anabolic biosynthetic pathways. However, blood perfusion and consequently the supply with glucose are frequently inadequate in solid cancers. PEPCK-M (

Indexed as

A549 CellsAnimalsGlucoseGlutamineGlycerolHeterograftsHumansLactic AcidMaleMiceMice, NudeNeoplasmsPhosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP)PhospholipidsGlucoseGlutamineGlycerolLactic AcidPCK2 protein, humanPhosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP)PhospholipidscancerglyceroneogenesismetabolismPCK2PEPCK

Identifiers

PMID29844165
PMCPMC6004450
OpenAlexW2807703685

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.