Cholesterol and steroid synthesizing smooth endoplasmic reticulum of adrenocortical cells contains high levels of proteins associated with the translocation channel

Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4234-4249

  Black, Virginia H ^a,d   Sanjay, Archana ^a,e   Van Leyen, Klaus ^b,f   Lauring, Brett ^c   Kreibich, Gert ^a  

^a Kaplan Cancer Center   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSLOCON;

ADRENAL CORTEX CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOSYLATION; GUINEA PIG; MICROSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHOLESTEROL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GUINEA PIGS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MICROSOMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 24944507218     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-0372     Document Type: Article

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