Evidence for the identity of the major apoprotein in low density and very low density lipoproteins in normal subjects and patients with familial hyperlipoproteinemia. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The major apoprotein(s) from human plasma low density lipoproteins was isolated and compared with a major protein fraction (fraction I) from very low density lipoproteins (VLDL). Fraction I had been previously found to comprise approximately 40% of the total protein of VLDL. Fraction I from VLDL and apoLDL from normal subjects were indistinguishable in amino acid compositions and circular dichroic spectra. They yielded indistinguishable displacement curves of LDL-(125)I by radioimmunoassay and formed immunoprecipitin lines of complete identity. Fraction I from VLDL of normal subjects was compared with the fraction isolated from patients with familial types II, III, IV, and V hyperlipoproteinemia. There were no detectable differences between any of these fractions in amino acid compositions, circular dichroic spectra, and immunochemical properties. It was, therefore, concluded that short of peptide mapping or determination of amino acid sequence, fraction I from VLDL of each subject with familial hyperlipoproteinemia appears to be identical with fraction I and apoLDL from normal individuals.A new convenient method of preparation of soluble apoLDL, modified from a procedure previously described from this laboratory, is presented.

publication date

  • June 1, 1972

Research

keywords

  • Hyperlipidemias
  • Lipoproteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC292286

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0015352298

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1172/JCI106945

PubMed ID

  • 4336942

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 51

issue

  • 6