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SUBMITTER: Calderon-Dominguez M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3951587 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Calderon-Dominguez Maria M Gil Gregorio G Medina Miguel Angel MA Pandak William M WM Rodríguez-Agudo Daniel D
The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 20140115
Cholesterol levels in the body are maintained through the coordinated regulation of its uptake, synthesis, distribution, storage and efflux. However, the way cholesterol is sorted within cells remains poorly defined. The discovery of the newly described StarD4 subfamily, part of the steroidogenic acute regulatory lipid transfer (START) domain family of proteins, affords an opportunity for the study of intracellular cholesterol movement, metabolism and its disorders. The three members of this int ...[more]