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Three pools of plasma membrane cholesterol and their relation to cholesterol homeostasis.
eLife - 11 Jun 2014
Das Akash, Brown Michael S, Anderson Donald D, Goldstein Joseph L, Radhakrishnan Arun
Abstract excerpt
When human fibroblasts take up plasma low density lipoprotein (LDL), its cholesterol is liberated in lysosomes and eventually reaches the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where it inhibits cholesterol synthesis by blocking activation of SREBPs. This feedback protects against cholesterol overaccumulation in the plasma membrane (PM). But how does ER know whether PM is saturated with cholesterol? In this study, we define...
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