A comprehensive machine-readable view of the mammalian cholesterol biosynthesis pathway

Alexander Mazein, Steven Watterson, Wei Yuan Hsieh, William J Griffiths, Peter Ghazal*

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Abstract

Cholesterol biosynthesis serves as a central metabolic hub for numerous biological processes in health and disease. A detailed, integrative single-view description of how the cholesterol pathway is structured and how it interacts with other pathway systems is lacking in the existing literature. Here we provide a systematic review of the existing literature and present a detailed pathway diagram that describes the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway (the mevalonate, the Kandutch-Russell and the Bloch pathway) and shunt pathway that leads to 24(S),25-epoxycholesterol synthesis. The diagram has been produced using the Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN) and is available in the SBGN-ML format, a human readable and machine semantically parsable open community file format.


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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)56-66
Number of pages11
JournalBiochemical Pharmacology
Volume86
Issue number1
Early online date10 Apr 2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2013

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Cholesterol
  • Sterol
  • SBGN
  • Metabolic network
  • Pathway map
  • ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE
  • MEVALONATE PYROPHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE
  • CYTOCHROME P450 OXIDOREDUCTASE
  • PEROXISOMAL TARGETING SIGNALS
  • COA LYASE DEFICIENCY
  • PHOSPHOMEVALONATE KINASE
  • SQUALENE SYNTHASE
  • NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
  • ISOPRENOID BIOSYNTHESIS
  • ENDOPLASMIC-RETICULUM

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