Article
Recent progress in understanding apolipoprotein B.
Circulation - 1 Nov 1990
Young S G
Abstract excerpt
For the past 5 years, investigators from many different laboratories have contributed to a greatly increased understanding of two very important lipid-carrying proteins in plasma--apo B-100 and apo B-48. Apo B-100, an extremely large protein composed of 4,536 amino acids, is synthesized by the li...
Topics
- Apolipoprotein B-100
- Apolipoprotein B-48
- Apolipoproteins B
- Cholesterol
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Hyperlipoproteinemias
- Hypolipoproteinemias
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
