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The SREBP Pathway: Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism by Proteolysis of a Membrane-Bound Transcription Factor

Michael S. Brown, +1 more
- 02 May 1997 - 
- Vol. 89, Iss: 3, pp 331-340
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This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (HL20948) and the Perot Family Foundation.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1997-05-02 and is currently open access. It has received 3626 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sterol response element binding.

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SREBPs: activators of the complete program of cholesterol and fatty acid synthesis in the liver

TL;DR: The complex, interdigitated roles of these three SREBPs have been dissected through the study of ten different lines of gene-manipulated mice and form the subject of this review.
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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors: nuclear control of metabolism.

TL;DR: This work has shown that direct expression of PPAR mRNAs in the absence of a specific carrier gene results in down-regulation in the activity of other PPARs, and these properties are consistent with those of a “spatially aggregating substance”.
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Atherosclerosis: The Road Ahead

TL;DR: Elevated levels of serum cholesterol are probably unique through the hepatic LDL receptor pathway, as evi-in being sufficient to drive the development of athero-denced by the fact that lack of functional LDL receptors sclerosis in humans and experimental animals, even in is responsible for the massive accumulation of LDL in the absence of other known risk factors.
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Understanding Adipocyte Differentiation

TL;DR: Characterization of regulatory regions of adipose-specific genes has led to the identification of the transcription factors peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma and CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), which play a key role in the complex transcriptional cascade during adipocyte differentiation.
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