Gene: [18q11/NPC1] intracellular cholesterol transport regulator?; Niemann-Pick disease, type C1 (major form); [NPC ]


FUN

Transfection of NPC fibroblasts with wildtype NPC1 cDNA resulted in correction of their excessive lysosomal storage of LDL cholesterol, thereby defining the critical role of NPC1 in regulation of intracellular cholesterol trafficking (Carstea-1997)."

EVO

The 1,278-amino acid NPC1 protein has sequence similarity to the morphogen receptor 'patched' (GEM:09q223/PTCH), which is mutant in the basal cell nevus syndrome, and to the putative sterol-sensing regions of SREBP cleavage-activating protein (see GEM:17p112/SREBF1) and 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (GEM:05q1/HMGCR)."

CAG

On the minor form of Niemann-Pick disease (type C2) see GEM:00.0/NPC2.

REF

LOC,MUT,SEQ,COD "Carstea ED &: Science, 277, N5323, 228-231, 1997
LIN,PAT "Carstea ED &: AJHG, 55, A182-182, 1994
LIN,PAT "Carstea ED &: PNAS, 90, 2002-2004, 1993
LIN,LOC "Kurimasa A &: Hum Genet, 92, 157-162, 1993
HET,PAT "Steinberg SJ &: J Med Genet, 31, 317-320, 1994
LIN,LOC,HET "Vanier MT &: AJHG, 58, 118-125, 1996
HET,PAT "Vanier MT &: Dev Neurosci, 13, N4-5, 307-314, 1991

KEY

lip, ats, mtbd

CLA

coding, basic

LOC

18 q11

MIM

MIM: 257220

SYN

NPC

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