Lysosomal integral membrane protein-2 (LIMP-2/SCARB2) is involved in lysosomal cholesterol export

Autor: Saskia Heybrock, Kristiina Kanerva, Ying Meng, Chris Ing, Anna Liang, Zi-Jian Xiong, Xialian Weng, Young Ah Kim, Richard Collins, William Trimble, Régis Pomès, Gilbert G. Privé, Wim Annaert, Michael Schwake, Joerg Heeren, Renate Lüllmann-Rauch, Sergio Grinstein, Elina Ikonen, Paul Saftig, Dante Neculai
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11425-0
Popis: Cholesterol transport is tightly regulated in the cell and in lysosomes is regulated by NPC1/2. Here, Heybrock et al. use molecular modeling, knockout mice and cell based studies to show that LIMP-2 also mediates lysosomal cholesterol transport.
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