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Lecidella carpathica
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Lecidella carpathica

Lecidella carpathica is a species of crustose lichen in the family Lecanoraceae. It was formally described as a new species in 1861 by the German lichenologist Gustav Wilhelm Körber.

Three secondary metabolites that occur in this species, hopane-6α,22-diol, brialmontin, and atraric acid, inhibit the enzyme protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B. This enzyme is a therapeutic target for diabetes treatments and plays a major role in negative regulation of the insulin signaling pathway.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 223119.