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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 25, 630-637, Copyright © 1984 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Advantages and limitations of density gradient ultracentrifugation in the fractionation of human serum lipoproteins: role of salts and sucrose

C Edelstein, D Pfaffinger and AM Scanu

Two density gradient ultracentrifugation methods, Redgrave et al. (1975. Anal. Biochem. 65: 42-49) and Nilsson et al. (1981. Anal. Biochem. 110: 342-348), currently used for the separation and analysis of plasma lipoproteins were compared with respect to their resolving power and capacity to obtain pure products as a function of time of ultracentrifugation using the same rotor (Beckman SW-40), speed (150,000 g), and temperature (14 degrees C). The effects of sucrose and salts were also investigated. The Redgrave gradient insured the separation of the major classes of plasma lipoproteins after 24 hr of centrifugation; however, equilibrium conditions were only reached after 48 hr, at which time the lipoproteins were contaminated by albumin. When the effluents from each rotor tube were continuously monitored at 280 nm, each lipoprotein band gave values that were higher than those from mass analyses. This was due to a light scattering effect, the extent of which was dependent on the concentration of lipoproteins and salts. Sucrose prevented the scattering effect and was found to bind irreversibly to the apolipoproteins. In contrast, after 66 hr centrifugation, the lipoproteins obtained from the Nilsson gradient exhibited a close correspondence between protein mass and absorbance values at 280 nm, had no scattering effect, and were uncontaminated by albumin. The difference in spectroscopic behavior between the Redgrave and the Nilsson procedures was attributed to three factors: 1) the presence of sucrose in the latter gradient and incorporation of this sugar into lipoproteins as assessed by mass and radioactivity measurements; 2), the salt density to which the serum samples were exposed to at the beginning of the ultracentrifugation; and 3) the final lipoprotein concentration.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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