START domain proteins and the intracellular trafficking of cholesterol in steroidogenic cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 59-65

  Strauss III, Jerome F ^a   Kishida, Tatsuro ^a   Christenson, Lane K ^a   Fujimoto, Toshio ^a   Hiroi, Hisahiko ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cholesterol; MLN64; START; Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTEROID; FAT DROPLET; LIPOSOME; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MLN64; PROTEIN STARD4; PROTEIN STARD5; PROTEIN STARD6; SEX HORMONE; STEROID HORMONE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; STEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA CHAIN; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VACUOLE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CYTOPLASM; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; LAMELLAR BODY; LIPID TRANSPORT; LYSOSOME; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEROIDOGENESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038630960     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(03)00063-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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