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Tracking the Role of a StAR in the Sky of the New Millennium
1 Aug 2001
Abstract excerpt
The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein is indispensable for the biosynthesis of steroid hormones. Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein mediates the rate-limiting step in steroidogenesis, the transfer of cholesterol from the outer mitochondrial membrane to the inner mitochondrial membrane where it is cleaved to pregnenolone. Its essential role in steroidogenesis was shown when it was discovered that...
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