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Sitosterolemia: Twenty Years of Discovery of the Function of ABCG5ABCG8.
International journal of molecular sciences - 5 Mar 2021
Williams Kori, Segard Allison, Graf Gregory A
Abstract excerpt
Sitosterolemia is a lipid disorder characterized by the accumulation of dietary xenosterols in plasma and tissues caused by mutations in either ABCG5 or ABCG8. ABCG5 ABCG8 encodes a pair of ABC half transporters that form a heterodimer (G5G8), which then traffics to the surface of hepatocytes and enterocytes and promotes the secretion of cholesterol and xenosterols into the bile and the intestinal lumen. We...
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