title: Introduction to the 2016 Keith L. Parker Memorial Lecturer: Douglas M. Stocco, Ph.D.
abstract: Douglas M. (Doug) Stocco is Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, TX, and is internationally renowned for his work characterizing the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, StAR. Stocco's laboratory isolated and cloned StAR from mouse Leydig MA-10 cells, collaborated on the demonstration that StAR mutations cause congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia, and delineated much of what is known about the intracellular pathways that regulate its production. This work resolved a decades-long quest to identify the mechanism underlying the acute regulation of steroidogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Center for Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: wlmlab@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Walter L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004704:Endocrinology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D051336:Mitochondrial Membranes / Q000378:metabolism; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D000098682:Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein
chemical_list: D010750:Phosphoproteins; D000098682:Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein
keywords: Adrenal; Gonad; StAR; Steroidogenesis; Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein