Aster: A New Star in Cholesterol Trafficking

Overview

Journal Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2018 Oct 6

PMID 30290136

Citations 1

Authors

Vassily I Kutyavin

Ajay Chawla

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Abstract

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.

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