The SLC65 family of intracellular cholesterol transporters are 13TM membrane proteins. NPC1/SLC65A1 is an intracellular cholesterol transporter, which together with NPC2 (Uniprot ID P61916), allows the accumulation into the cytosol of cholesterol acquired from low density lipoproteins.

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