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Other ways to skin a cat: activating SREBP without Scap.
Fly - 1 Jan 2000
Ozdemir Cafer, Rawson Robert B
Abstract excerpt
The sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) pathway plays a central role in the global regulation of lipid homeostasis. SREBPs are membrane-bound transcription factors whose proteolytic activation is regulated by cellular lipid levels; when demand for lipid rises, SREBP travels from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus where it is cleaved by two distinct proteases. Cleavage releases the...
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