Article
A mutation that impairs the ability of lipoprotein receptors to localise in coated pits on the cell surface of human fibroblasts.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Anderson R G, Goldstein J L, Brown M S
Abstract excerpt
Low density lipoprotein is taken up by cultured human fibroblasts through an endocytic process that requires the binding of the lipoprotein to specific receptors located in coated pits on the cell surface. The coated pits are discrete segments of the plasms membrane that can undergo rapid invagination to form coated endocytic vesicles. In one form of the human genetic disorder familial hypercholesterolaemia, the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Autoradiography
- Cell Membrane
- Cells, Cultured
- Endocytosis
- Humans
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Lipoproteins, LDL
- Membrane Proteins
- Receptors, Drug
