Intramitochondrial cholesterol transfer

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

Volumn 1486, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 184-197

  Stocco, Douglas M ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Mitochondrion; MLN64; P450 side chain cleavage; Steroidogenesis; Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; PREGNENOLONE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIPID STORAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; COS CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNENOLONE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034717943     PISSN: 13881981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-1981(00)00056-1     Document Type: Review

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