Hormonal activation of a kinase cascade localized at the mitochondria is required for StAR protein activity

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 37-42

  Poderoso, Cecilia ^a   Maloberti, Paula ^a   Duarte, Alejandra ^a   Neuman, Isabel ^a   Paz, Cristina ^a   Maciel, Fabiana Cornejo ^a   Podesta, Ernesto J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cholesterol transport; ERK1 2; MEK1 2; PKA; Protein phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 2; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROGESTERONE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; MITOCHONDRION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 59849092266     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.10.009     Document Type: Review

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