EARLY INCORPORATION OF CELL-DERIVED CHOLESTEROL INTO PRE-BETA-MIGRATING HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN
EARLY INCORPORATION OF CELL-DERIVED CHOLESTEROL INTO PRE-BETA-MIGRATING HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00401a005
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发表时间:
1988-01-12
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
FIELDING, CJ
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作者:
CASTRO, GR;FIELDING, CJ
Cultures of human skin fibroblasts were labeled to high cholesterol specific activity with [3H]cholesterol and incubated briefly (1-3 min) with normal human plasma. The plasma was fractionated by two-dimensional agarose-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and the early appearance of cholesterol label among plasma lipoproteins determined. A major part of the label at 1-min incubation was in a pre-.beta.-migrating apo A-I lipoprotein fraction with a molecular weight of ca. 70,000. Label was enriched about 30-fold in this fraction relative to its content of apo A-I (1-2% of total apo A-I). The proportion of label in this lipoprotein was strongly correlated with its concentration in plasma. Further incubation (2 min) in the presence of unlabeled cells demonstrated transfer of label from this fraction to a higher molecular weight pre-.beta. apo A-I species, to low-density lipoprotein, and to the .alpha.-migrating apoA-I that made up the bulk (96%) of total apo A-I in plasma. The data suggest that a significant part of cell-derived cholesterol is transferred specifically to a pre-.beta.-migrating lipoprotein a-I species as part of a cholesterol transport transfer sequence in plasma.