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SUBMITTER: Prasad M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5325540 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prasad Manoj M Pawlak Kevin J KJ Burak William E WE Perry Elizabeth E EE Marshall Brendan B Whittal Randy M RM Bose Himangshu S HS
Science advances 20170224 2
Steroids, essential for mammalian survival, are initiated by cholesterol transport by steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR). Appropriate protein folding is an essential requirement of activity. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperones assist in folding of cytoplasmic proteins, whereas mitochondrial chaperones fold only mitochondrial proteins. We show that glucose regulatory protein 78 (GRP78), a master ER chaperone, is also present at the mitochondria-associated ER membrane (MAM), where it ...[more]