Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein: An update on its regulation and mechanism of action

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 576-586

  Christenson, Lane K ^a   Strauss, Jerome F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Mitochondria; Steroidogenesis; Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PREGNENOLONE; SITOSTEROL; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DESORPTION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ACETYLATION; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STEROIDS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035672719     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0188-4409(01)00338-1     Document Type: Review

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