“…Specific amino acids such as cysteine are involved in post-translational modifications that include oxidation, nitrosylation, or disulfide bond formation [ 140 , 141 ] with electrostatics that have and play important roles in biology such as toxic Aβ oligomer formation. Cysteine residues are important to many protein functions and patulin has been shown to induce cysteine intra and inter molecular crosslinks that effect many cholesterol interacting proteins such as GPCR receptor activation, apo AI-ABCA1 cholesterol dependent efflux, LRP-1 associated LPS/mycotoxin metabolism, LDLr binding of lipoproteins, apo E (E2, E3, E4)/Aβ interactions, and phospholipid transport protein synthesis/secretion that effects apo E-PLTP activity [ 138 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 ]. The mycotoxin patulin has been shown to be neurotoxic and in mice patulin has been shown to induce brain damage [ 153 , 154 ].…”