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Julian C. Heitkamp

Universitätsmedizin GöttingenORCID 0009-0002-5966-1308Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintAug 11, 2026

Gene loss propensity for metallocarboxypeptidase E in insects is shaped by structural versatility and broader expression of metallocarboxypeptidase D but not functional importance

Christian Wegener, Julian C. Heitkamp, Vera S. Hunnekuhl

The paper investigates why the cpe gene is repeatedly lost in insects while cpd/svr is retained, finding that CPD's structural versatility and broader expression enable compensation for CPE loss.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.05.742955

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