Article
Atomic structure of the autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia phosphotyrosine-binding domain in complex with the LDL-receptor tail.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 May 2012
Dvir Hay, Shah Mehul, Girardi Enrico, Guo Lixia, Farquhar Marilyn G, Zajonc Dirk M
Abstract excerpt
Hypercholesterolemia, high serum cholesterol in the form of LDL, is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis. LDL is mostly degraded in the liver after its cellular internalization with the LDL receptor (LDLR). This clathrin-mediated endocytosis depends on the protein autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH), which binds the LDLR cytoplasmic tail. Mutations in either the LDLR tail or in ARH lead to...
Topics
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Atherosclerosis
- Cholesterol, LDL
- Crystallography, X-Ray
- Humans
- Hydrogen Bonding
- Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
- Hypercholesterolemia
