This pathway is inspired by the [Lipidmaps>Sterol lipids expended pathway display](https://lipidmaps.org/pathway/pathways_maps) and extended with Scheme 1 from [Acimovic et al 2013](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23558541). Literature suggests that cholesterol synthesis preferentially starts with the Bloch pathway, however there is a shift to the Kandutsch-Russell part via lathosterol ([Bae et al, 1997](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9291139)).
Dashed lines indicate that multiple steps are involved to create the final product. Several regulatory effects concerning the metabolites of cholesterol have been indicated as well. The content from the Bloch and Kandutsch-Russel pathways have been checked against literature, and differences compared to the original LipidMaps pathway have been coloured turquoise.
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HomologyMapper
This pathway was inferred from Mus musculus pathway [WP4346_106325.gpml] with a 94.0% conversion rate.
The current version of this pathway has been developed together with lipidomics community, including LIPID MAPS and part of the Lipids Portal (tagged
by Martina Kutmon).
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The current version of this pathway was approved for data analysis by Egon Willighagen.
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Bae SH, Paik YK; ''Cholesterol biosynthesis from lanosterol: development of a novel assay method and characterization of rat liver microsomal lanosterol delta 24-reductase.''; Biochem J, 1997 PubMedEurope PMCScholia
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