Desmosterol
![Skeletal formula of desmosterol](/Images/godic/202501/08/Desmosterol3242.png")
![Ball-and-stick model of the desmosterol molecule](/Images/godic/202501/08/Desmosterol_3D_ball3242.png")
Desmosterol is a molecule similar to cholesterol. Desmosterol is the immediate precursor of cholesterol in the Bloch pathway of cholesterol biosynthesis. 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase catalyses the reduction of desmosterol to cholesterol. It is accumulated in desmosterolosis.