Isolation of Cholesterol-requiring Mutant Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells with Defects in Cleavage of Sterol Regulatory Element-binding Proteins at Site 1

The synthesis and uptake of cholesterol requires transcription factors designated sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs). SREBPs are bound to membranes in a hairpin orientation with their transcriptionally active NH2-terminal segments facing the cytosol. The NH2-terminal segments are released from membranes by two-step proteolysis initiated by site 1 protease (S1P), which cleaves in the luminal loop between two membrane-spanning segments. Next, site 2 protease (S2P) releases the NH2-terminal fragment of SREBP. The S2P gene was recently isolated by complementation cloning using Chinese hamster ovary cells that require cholesterol to a in the S2P cholesterol in which by a in the Chinese hamster ovary cells with the S2P the cholesterol and two and that to SREBPs site that the in are and a in the cells cloning of the The synthesis and uptake of cholesterol requires transcription factors designated sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs). SREBPs are bound to membranes in a hairpin orientation with their transcriptionally active NH2-terminal segments facing the cytosol. The NH2-terminal segments are released from membranes by two-step proteolysis initiated by site 1 protease (S1P), which cleaves in the luminal loop between two membrane-spanning segments. Next, site 2 protease (S2P) releases the NH2-terminal fragment of SREBP. The S2P gene was recently isolated by complementation cloning using Chinese hamster ovary cells that require cholesterol to a in the S2P cholesterol in which by a in the Chinese hamster ovary cells with the S2P the cholesterol and two and that to SREBPs site that the in are and a in the cells cloning of the sterol regulatory element-binding cells with a sterol regulatory of site 1 protease site 2 protease Chinese hamster in cells a regulatory that the synthesis and uptake of cholesterol and The are transcription factors designated sterol regulatory element-binding proteins in which in of segments. 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