出版社：American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要：Human HDL are heterogeneous in their metabolism and comprise small, nascent pre-beta-HDL and more mature alpha-HDL. Evidence exists that pre-beta 1-HDL is the initial acceptor of cellular free cholesterol, which then transfers sequentially to other pre-beta species and then, after esterification, into alpha-HDL. As HDL particles are themselves transformed during this process, we postulated that in disorders in which HDL-cholesterol is low, such as obesity, the distribution of HDL particles may be disturbed. In this study, we analyzed the HDL profile in 23 obese and 18 lean subjects, and further investigated the effects of dietary change in 15 obese subjects. HDL were separated by two-dimensional nondenaturing electrophoresis and the apoA-I content in each fraction was quantified. alpha 1-HDL in obese subjects was significantly lower (P
