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Human low density lipoprotein subfractions separated by gradient gel electrophoresis: composition, distribution, and alterations induced by cholesteryl ester transfer protein

P Gambert, C Bouzerand-Gambert, A Athias, M Farnier and C Lallemant
Laboratoire de Biochimie Medicale, Faculte de Medecine, Dijon, France.

Low density lipoprotein (LDL) subfractions were studied in sera from 208 normolipidemic, 22 hypercholesterolemic, and 33 hypertriglyceridemic subjects. Whole serum without preliminary ultracentrifugation was submitted to electrophoresis in a nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel. Three main LDL patterns were observed in normolipidemic sera: type 1, characterized by the presence of only one major band; type 2, characterized by the presence of two close major bands; and type 3, where LDL were more dispersed and presented at least three distinct bands. Type 1 was more frequent in men (43%) than in women (19%). The tendency for a higher potential coronary disease risk profile sera, namely higher triglyceride level, higher very low density lipoprotein + LDL fraction and lower high density lipoprotein (HDL) fraction, was type 3 less than type 2 less than type 1. The LDL patterns found in hypercholesterolemic sera were of type 1. Hypertriglyceridemic sera were characterized by the presence of a major band of small size. Separated LDL subfractions were collected by electroelution and analyzed for composition. In all subspecies, the mass ratio of core to surface components was constant as well as the molar ratio of the two lipid surface components, phospholipids and free cholesterol. Surface lipid to apolipoprotein B ratio, cholesteryl ester to triglyceride ratio, and cholesteryl ester to apoB ratio increased with particle size increment. Incubation of LDL with HDL and purified cholesteryl ester transfer protein induced a transfer of lipids, mainly cholesteryl esters and phospholipids, to LDL and an increase of the sizes of LDL subfractions. This suggests that lipid transfers from HDL to LDL might be a process of intravascular LDL remodeling and a factor of LDL polymorphism.
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