Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 31, 361-374, Copyright © 1990 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Studies on the metabolism of apolipoprotein B in hypertriglyceridemic subjects using simultaneous administration of tritiated leucine and radioiodinated very low density lipoprotein

WF Beltz, YA Kesaniemi, NH Miller, WR Fisher, SM Grundy and LA Zech
Laboratory of Mathematical Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

To study the metabolic pathways of apolipoprotein B (apoB), a series of studies were carried out in which both radioiodinated very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) and tritiated leucine were simultaneously injected into three hypertriglyceridemic subjects. The appearance and disappearance of tritium activity in VLDL apoB, intermediate density lipoprotein (IDL) apoB, and low density lipoprotein (LDL) apoB were followed as was the disappearance of iodine activity from VLDL and the appearance and disappearance of iodine activity in IDL apoB and LDL apoB. It was found that a delipidation chain could describe the kinetics of both endogenously and exogenously labeled VLDL. A slow component of VLDL was necessary to fit the VLDL 131I-labeled apoB data and was consistent with the observed VLDL [3H]apoB kinetics. In addition, the estimated rate of conversion of VLDL apoB to LDL exceeded that which appeared to pass through the measured IDL pools, suggesting that a fraction of the IDL was not directly observed. It was also found that a higher percentage of VLDL 131I-labeled apoB was converted to LDL apoB than was VLDL [3H]apoB. To evaluate possible causes of this apparent anomaly, simultaneous examination of all kinetic data was performed. This exercise resulted in the resolution of removal pathways from multiple compartments in the VLDL delipidation chain and the conversion of slowly metabolized VLDL to IDL and LDL. The wide spectrum of this loss pathway indicates that previous estimates of VLDL apoB production rate using the radioiodinated methodology probably represent lower bounds for the true physiologic variable. It is important to note that these direct losses were apparent only when the combination of endogenous and exogenous labeling was used.
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