StAR-related lipid transfer protein 3; metastatic lymph node gene 64 protein; MLN 64; protein CAB1; START domain-containing protein 3; StARD3 (STARD3, CAB1, MLN64)

Function

• binds & transports cholesterol
• promotes steroidogenesis in placenta & brain
• can form homodimers
• interacts with STARD3NL

Structure

• contains 1 MENTAL domain spanning parts of the N-terminal & C-terminal cytoplasmic domains both explasmic loops, the cytoplasmic loop & all t transmembrane domains
• contains 1 START domain in the C-terminal cytoplasmic domain

Compartment

• integral membrane protein
• late endosomal compartment

More general terms

• transmembrane 4 protein
• StAR-related lipid transfer protein
• phosphoprotein

Database

• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=10948
• Kegg: http://www.genome.jp/dbget-bin/www_bget?hsa:10948
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/607048
• UniProt: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q14849.html