SNARE-Mediated cholesterol movement to mitochondria supports steroidogenesis in rodent cells

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 234-247

  Lin, Ye ^a,b,c   Hou, Xiaoming ^a,b,c   Shen, Wen Jun ^a,b   Hanssen, Ruth ^a,b   Khor, Victor K ^a,b   Cortez, Yuan ^b   Roseman, Ann N ^b   Azhar, Salman ^a,b   Kraemer, Fredric B ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MESSENGER RNA; SNARE PROTEIN; SOLUBLE N ETHYLMALEIMIDE SENSITIVE FACTOR ATTACHMENT PROTEIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN; SYNTAXIN 17; SYNTAXIN 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STEROID;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS; STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL LINE; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SNARE PROTEINS; STEROIDS;

EID: 84956947780     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: 19449917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2015-1281     Document Type: Article

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