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Cloning, expression, and promoter analysis of hepatic lipase derived from human hyperplastic adrenals: evidence for alternative mRNA splicing.
Cell biochemistry and biophysics - 1 Jan 2007
Botma Gert-Jan, Heuveling Mirjam, Lamers Jos M J, Jansen Hans, Verhoeven Adrie J M
Abstract excerpt
Human adrenals contain hepatic lipase (HL) activity, which is thought to facilitate the uptake of plasma cholesterol used in steroidogenesis. We show here that full-length HL mRNA is expressed in hyperplastic adrenals of patients with Cushing's disease. In addition, a splice variant that lacks exon-3 was detected in the human adrenals and hepatoma (HepG2) cells, but not in liver. In CAT-reporter assays using...
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