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Background：
Present mainly in the mitochondrial compartment of peripheral tissues , the protein encoded by this gene interacts with some benzodiazepines and has different affinities than its endogenous counterpart. The protein is a key factor in the flow of cholesterol into mitochondria to permit the initiation of steroid hormone synthesis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been reported; one of the variants lacks an internal exon and is considered non-coding , and the other variants encode the same protein. [provided by RefSeq , Feb 2012]
