This invention provides a novel intracellular recycling free cholesterol pathway whose activity is required for cell division. The pathway provides the cholesterol needed for cell division prior to separation of daughter cells (mitosis). The new pathway offers several targets from pharmaceutical intervention, either via small molecules (such as sterol analogs) or by molecular engineering (preventing the cell from accumulating cholesterol by promoting free cholesterol efflux by transfection of caveolin cDNA).
申请公布号
WO9946592(A1)
申请公布日期
1999.09.16
申请号
WO1999US05146
申请日期
1999.03.08
申请人
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;FIELDING, CHRISTOPHER, J.;FIELDING, PHOEBE, E.