The Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory protein (StAR)

Cholesterol Transporters of the START Domain Protein Family in Health and Disease: START Proteins-Structure and Function

Volumn 9781493911127, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-47

  Clark, Barbara J ^a   Stocco, Douglas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cAMP; Discovery; Protein kinase A; StAR; STARD1; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930020967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1112-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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