ネバニミブ結合型のヒトACAT1の構造

Tao Long1, Yingyuan Sun1, Abdirahman Hassan1

  • 1Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.

Nature
|May 21, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

コレステロールホメオスタシスに不可欠なヒトACAT1の構造は,冷凍電子顕微鏡を用いて決定された. これは,ACAT1がネバニミブのような阻害剤とどのように相互作用し,病気の治療の発展を助けることを明らかにします.

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