The corrole-based catalytic antioxidant reduced the cholesterol biosynthesis ability of macrophages, harvested from mice treated with it. and a non-redox active analogue of it affect the committed step of the biosynthetic pathway--the HMG-CoA reductase catalysed reaction--by acting as allosteric inhibitors of this key enzyme.
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