STARD3NL

STARD3NL
Identifiers
Aliases STARD3NL, MENTHO, STARD3 N-terminal like
External IDs MGI: 1923455 HomoloGene: 11501 GeneCards: STARD3NL
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

83930

76205

Ensembl

ENSG00000010270

ENSMUSG00000003062

UniProt

O95772

Q9DCI3

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_032016

NM_024270

RefSeq (protein)

NP_114405.1

NP_077232.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 7: 38.18 – 38.23 Mb Chr 13: 19.36 – 19.4 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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MENTHO or STARD3 N-terminal like protein (STARD3NL) is an integral membrane protein of unknown function.[3] As the alternate name implies, MENTHO, short for "MLN64 N-terminal homologue", contains a region in its N-terminus similar to that found in STARD3, also known as MLN64, but lacks the StAR-related transfer domain (START) that characterizes all other proteins given the "STARD" (START domain-containing) name. The N-terminal domain is called a MENTAL (MLN64 N-terminal) domain.

Like MLN64, MENTHO is widely expressed in tissues of the body. Within the cell, it localizes to the membranes of late endosomes and may interact there with MLN64. It is suggested that in combination with MLN64, this protein helps regulate the flow of cholesterol through the endosomal pathway.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Entrez Gene: STARD3NL STARD3 N-terminal like".
  4. Alpy F, Tomasetto C (2006). "MLN64 and MENTHO, two mediators of endosomal cholesterol transport.". Biochem. Soc. Trans. 34 (Pt 3): 343–5. doi:10.1042/BST0340343. PMID 16709157.

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