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Biological context of C01054

  • The ability of some azasqualene derivatives to inhibit yeast cell growth was compared with their inhibition activity on squalene-2,3-oxide cyclase (EC 5.4.99.7) both in living cells and in microsome preparations [6].
 

Anatomical context of C01054

References

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  7. An alternative mechanism for the inhibition of cholesterol biosynthesis in HepG2 cells by N-[(1,5,9)-trimethyldecyl]-4 alpha,10-dimethyl-8-aza-trans-decal-3 beta-ol (MDL 28,815). Van Sickle, W.A., Wilson, P.K., Wannamaker, M.W., Cooper, J.R., Flanagan, M.A., McCarthy, J.R., Bey, P., Jackson, R.L. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. (1993) [Pubmed]
 
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