7α,27-Dihydroxycholesterol is used in the study of immunochemistry. It is a potent and selective agonist of EB12.7α,27-Dihydroxycholesterol is also studied in biochemical methods as one of several oxysterols found in human plasma using HPLC-MS and incorporating charg-tagging and high-resolution mass spectrometry.
7α,27-dihydroxycholesterol (7α,27-di-OHC) is one of the metabolite screened in pathological conditions such as neurological diseases, Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, obesity metabolic syndrome and diabetes by lipidomics analysis of human specimens. Upon the lipopolysaccharide activation, the levels of 7α,27-di-OHC decreases.7α27-OHC is a ligand for Epstein-Barr virus-induced gene 2 (EBI2).