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CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS- STEPS AND REGULATION
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CHOLESTEROL INTRODUCTION
Cholesterol is the major sterol in the animal tissues. Cholesterol is present in tissues and in plasma either
as free cholesterol or as a storage form, combined with a longchain fatty acid as cholesterol ester.
In plasma, both forms are transported in protein steins
Plasma lowdensity lipo protein (LDL) is the vehicle of uptake of cholesterol and cholesterol ester into many tissues.
Free cholesterol is removed from tissues by plasma highdensity lipo protein (HDL) and transported to the liver, where it is eliminated from the body either unchanged or after conversion to bile acids in the process known as reverse cholesterol transport.
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STRUCTURE OF CHOLESTEROL
The structure of cholesterol consists of four fused rings (The rings in steroids are denoted by the letters A, B, C, and D.), with the carbons numbered in the sequence, and an eight numbered, and branched hydrocarbon chain attached to the D ring.
Cholesterol contains two angular methyl groups: the C19 methyl group is attached to C10, and the C18 methyl group is attached to C13.
The C18 and C19 methyl groups of cholesterol lie above the plane containing the four rings.
STRUCTURE OF CHOLESTEROL
Steroids with 8 to 10 carbon atoms in the side chain and an alcohol hydroxyl group at C3 are classified as sterols. Much of the plasma cholesterol is in the esterified form (with a fatty acid attached at carbon 3), which makes the structure even more hydrophobic.
FUNCTIONS OF CHOLESTEROL
Cholesterol is the most abundant sterol in humans and performs a number of essential functions. For example
It is a major constituent of the plasma membrane and of plasma lipoproteins.
It is a precursor of bile salts, It is a precursor of steroid hormones that include adreno
cortical hormones, sex hormones, placental hormones etc Also a precursor of vitamin D, cardiac glycosides,
Sitosterol of the plant kingdom, and some alkaloids. It is required for the nerve transmission. Cholesterol is
widely distributed in all cells of the body but particularly abundant in nervous tissue.
SOURCES OF CHOLESTEROL
Cholesterol is derived from diet synthesis and from the hydrolysis of cholesterol
esters. A little more than half the cholesterol of the body
arises by synthesis (about 700 mg/d), and the remainder is provided by the average diet.
The liver and intestine account for approximately 10% each of total synthesis in humans.
Virtually all tissues containing nucleated cells are capable of cholesterol synthesis, which occurs in the endo plasmic reticulum and the cytolysis
VARIATION OF SERUM CHOLESTEROL LEVELS
The normal serum cholesterol concentration ranges between 150 220 mg/dl
High cholesterol concentration is found in Diabetes mellitus Nephrotic syndrome Obstructive jaundice Familial hyper cholesterolemia Biliary cirrhosis Hypothyroidism
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