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Cholesterol is required for the polarized secretion of erythropoietin in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells.
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics - 15 Jun 2005
Maruyama Masato, Kishimoto Michiyuki, Ishida Kayo, Watanabe Yoshihiko, Nishikawa Makiya, Masuda Seiji, Sasaki Ryuzo, Takakura Yoshinobu
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It has already been reported that stably expressed exogenous human wild-type EPO (wtEPO) is preferentially secreted to the apical side and one of the three N-linked carbohydrate chains critically acts as an apical sorting determinant in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells. It has been suggested that lipid rafts are involved in the apical sorting of membrane and secretory proteins. To investigate the...
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