Hdl Discoidal
Using a wide variety of biophysical techniques the.
Hdl discoidal. However their structural. Discoidal high density lipoprotein hdl particles are known to be fractionalized into several discrete populations in plasma and to differ in behavior according to size. The efflux of lipids and cholesterol from peripheral tissues to lipid free poor hdl particles results in the formation of nascent discoidal hdl particles. The free cholesterol that is located on the surface is then esterfied by lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase.
Discoidal hdl accumulates in the plasma of patients with congenital lcat lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase deficiency 1 2 and discoid forms are found upon perfusion of intact animal livers 3 and after incubation of cholesterol loaded cells with exogenous apo ai. The discovery of the characterization of native discoidal hdl has inspired a new field of synthetic nanodisc hdl which has offered a growing number of unanticipated biomedical applications. Conversion of discoidal phospholipid pl rich high density lipoprotein hdl to spheroidal cholesteryl ester rich hdl is a central step in reverse cholesterol transport. A detailed understanding of this process and the atheroprotective role of apolipoprotein a i apoa i requires knowledge of the structure and dynamics of these various particles.
4 5 the membrane protein abca1 atp binding cassette transporter 1 appears to play an obligate role in formation of discoidal. However their structural differences and the factors regulating their size are less understood. The cholate dialysis method first reported by jonas in 1969 is the most widely used approach for reconstituting discoidal hdl dhdl in test tubes with phospholipids and the most dominant protein apolipoprotein a 1 apoa i. In this study we prepared several reconstituted hdls rhdls for structural evaluation by gel filtration chromatography and.
High density lipoprotein hdl is a naturally occurring composite of lipids and lipid binding proteins.