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COVER: Schematic representation of the interaction of apoLp-III with phospholipid vesicles (top). When encountering a bilayer vesicle of phosphatidylcholine, apoLp-III penetrates the bilayer and disrupts it, inducing transformation into much smaller disc-like structures, a process that is impeded by apoLp-III oligosaccharide chains. In the case of lipoprotein binding (bottom), the appearance of diacylglycerol on the surface of spherical LDL results in recognition and binding of apoLp-III to the modified LDL particle surface, covering the otherwise exposed hydrophobic surface. Figure is not drawn to scale, and stoichiometry of apoLp-III binding to LDL should not be inferred from inclusion of two apoLp-III molecules in the diagram. (See Weers et al., p. 416.) 
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