Title : An update on the mechanism of action of the Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory (StAR) protein.

Pub. Date : 1999

PMID : 10433061






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1 The StAR protein, which is rapidly synthesized in response to tropic hormone stimulation, apparently functions by mediating the transfer of the substrate for all steroid hormones, cholesterol, from the outer to the inner mitochondrial membrane where it is cleaved to pregnenolone, the first steroid formed. Pregnenolone steroidogenic acute regulatory protein Homo sapiens