Structural and Functional Analyses of a Sterol Carrier Protein in Spodoptera litura

BACKGROUNDS: In insects, cholesterol is one of the membrane components in cells and a precursor of ecdysteroid biosynthesis. Because insects lack two key enzymes, squalene synthase and lanosterol synthase, in the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway, they cannot autonomously synthesize cholesterol de no...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Lili, Li, Ding, Xu, Rui, Zheng, Sichun, He, Hongwu, Wan, Jian, Feng, Qili
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081542

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081542

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