Aster: a new star in cholesterol trafficking

• Vassily I. Kutyavin ^[1] ; Ajay Chawla ^[1]
  1. [1] University of California, San Francisco
• Localización: Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, Vol. 175, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 307-309
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Life evolved in an aqueous environment, necessitating the evolution of carrier proteins to shuttle lipophilic molecules within and between cells. Sandhu et. al. (2018) report the discovery of a long-sought-after cholesterol carrier protein, named Aster, which transports cholesterol from the plasma membrane to the endoplasmic reticulum.