STARD3: Lysates

The steroidogenic acute regulatory (StAR) protein facilitates the movement of cholesterol from the outer to inner mitochondrial membrane in adrenal and gonadal cells, fostering steroid biosynthesis. MLN 64 is a 445-amino acid protein of unknown function. When 218 amino-terminal residues of MLN 64 are deleted, the resulting N-218 MLN 64 has 37% amino acid identity with StAR and 50% of StAR's steroidogenic activity in transfected cells. Bacterially expressed N-218 MLN 64 exerts StAR-like activity ...