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Sterols, Oxysterols, and Accessible Cholesterol: Signalling for Homeostasis, in Immunity and During Development
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Yuqin Wang
Frontiers in Physiology, Volume: 12
Swansea University Authors:
William Griffiths , Yuqin Wang
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DOI (Published version): 10.3389/fphys.2021.723224
Abstract
In this article we discuss the concept of accessible plasma membrane cholesterol and its involvement as a signalling molecule. Changes in plasma membrane accessible cholesterol, although only being minor in the context of total cholesterol plasma membrane cholesterol and total cell cholesterol, are...
| Published in: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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| ISSN: | 1664-042X |
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Frontiers Media SA
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57898 |
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In this article we discuss the concept of accessible plasma membrane cholesterol and its involvement as a signalling molecule. Changes in plasma membrane accessible cholesterol, although only being minor in the context of total cholesterol plasma membrane cholesterol and total cell cholesterol, are a key regulator of overall cellular cholesterol homeostasis by the SREBP pathway. Accessible cholesterol also provides the second messenger between patched 1 and smoothened in the hedgehog signalling pathway important during development, and its depletion may provide a mechanism of resistance to microbial pathogens including SARS-CoV-2. We revise the hypothesis that oxysterols are a signalling form of cholesterol, in this instance as a rapidly acting and paracrine version of accessible cholesterol. |
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25-hydroxycholesterol, SREBP pathway, INSIG, HMG-CoA reductase, SARS-CoV-2, hedgehogsignalling pathway, cholesterol dependent cytolysin |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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This work was supported by the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC; grant numbers BB/I001735/1 and BB/N015932/1 to WG and BB/L001942/1 to YW), and the Welsh Government and the European Union through European Structural Funds |