PMID: 6406631Apr 1, 1983Paper

Apolipoproteins of high, low, and very low density lipoproteins in human bile.

Journal of Lipid Research
R B SewellN F LaRusso

Abstract

We tested the hypothesis that apolipoproteins, the protein constituents of plasma lipoproteins, are secreted into bile. We examined human gallbladder bile obtained at surgery (N = 54) from subjects with (N = 44) and without (N = 10) gallstones and hepatic bile collected by T-tube drainage (N = 9) after cholecystectomy. Using specific radioimmunoassays for human apolipoproteins A-I and A-II, the major apoproteins of high density lipoproteins, for apolipoproteins C-II and C-III, major apoproteins of very low density lipoproteins, and for apolipoprotein B, the major apoprotein of low density lipoproteins, we found immunoreactivity for these five apolipoproteins in every bile sample studied in concentrations up to 10% of their plasma values. Using double immunodiffusion, we observed complete lines of identity between bile samples and purified apolipoproteins A-I, A-II, or C-II. Using molecular sieve chromatography, we found identical elution profiles for biliary apolipoproteins A-I, A-II and B and these same apolipoproteins purified from human plasma. When we added high density lipoproteins purified from human plasma to lipoprotein-free solutions perfusing isolated rat livers, we detected apolipoproteins A-I and A-II in bile. Simil...Continue Reading

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