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(Journal of Nutrition. 1999;129:456-462.)
© 1999 The American Society for Nutritional Sciences


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Apolipoprotein B in the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum: Translation, Translocation and the Initiation of Lipoprotein Assembly

Gregory S. Shelness2 , 1 , Michael F. Ingram, Xue F. Huang and Jeanine A. DeLozier

Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157–1040


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Apolipoprotein (apo) B and the microsomal triglyceride transfer protein are essential for the hepatic assembly and secretion of triglyceride-rich VLDL. To understand how apoB initiates the process of lipoprotein formation, interest has focused on the biogenesis of its amino terminal globular domain ({alpha}1 domain). When only this domain is expressed in hepatoma cells, no lipoprotein particle will form. However, proper folding of the {alpha}1 domain is essential for the internal lipophilic regions of apoB to engage in cotranslational lipid recruitment. The essential function of this domain may be related to its capacity to promote a specific physical interaction with the microsomal triglyceride transfer protein, necessary for apoB's proper folding and lipidation. Alternatively, this domain may promote an autonomous lipid recruitment step that nucleates microsomal triglyceride transfer protein-dependent lipid sequestration by apoB. Forms of apoB that fail to initiate particle assembly or forms associated with aberrant underlipidated particles are targeted for intracellular turnover. Two sites of apoB degradation have been identified. In hepatocarcinoma-derived cells, misassembled apoB may undergo progressive reverse translocation from the endoplasmic reticulum lumen to the cytosol, a process that is mechanistically coupled to polyubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation on the cytosolic side of the membrane. Alternatively, studies in primary hepatocytes reveal that apoB may undergo sorting to a post-endoplasmic reticulum compartment for presecretory degradation. In either case, the balance between assembly and presecretory degradation of apoB may represent a control point for the production of hepatic VLDL.


KEY WORDS: • lipid acquisition • microsomal triglyceride transfer protein • protein domains • protein folding • proteosomes


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Hepatic VLDL are lipid emulsion particles composed of a triglyceride-rich core and a surface monolayer of phospholipid. Although VLDL emerges from the liver with multiple apolipoproteins, genetic analyses in humans and gene disruption experiments in mice reveal that apolipoprotein (apo)4B is the sole apolipoprotein required for VLDL assembly (Homanics et al. 1993Citation , Kane and Havel 1995Citation ). Apolipoprotein B is a 4536-amino acid secretory glycoprotein; in contrast to the class of soluble apoproteins epitomized by apoA-I and apoE, it is insoluble in aqueous buffers. Hence, apoB is incapable of exchanging among lipoprotein classes, and its initial biosynthetic association with nascent VLDL particles that occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is considered irreversible.

Both experimental and theoretical considerations have provided a broad framework for understanding the interactions of apoB with lipoprotein lipids. Apolipoprotein B possesses a pentapartite structure in which three domains dominated by amphipathic {alpha}-helical structures ({alpha}1, {alpha}2 and {alpha}3) alternate with two regions proposed to have a strong tendency to form antiparallel amphipathic ß-strands 1 and ß2) (Knott et al. 1986Citation , Schumaker et al. 1994Citation , Segrest et al. 1994Citation ) (Fig. 1 ).The amphipathic {alpha}-helix is the basic lipid-binding unit of the class of soluble apolipoproteins and is thought to confer strong but reversible binding of apoB to the lipoprotein surface (Segrest et al. 1994Citation ). The ß1 and ß2 domains may form a series of amphipathic belt-like structures; the hydrophobic face of these structures may interact directly with the triglyceride core (Segrest et al. 1998Citation ). The ß domains may be responsible for the irreversible integration of apoB with lipoprotein lipids (Yang et al. 1989Citation ).



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Figure 1. Domain structure of apolipoprotein (apo) B. Apolipoprotein B has been described in terms of a pentapartite structure in which three amphipathic {alpha}-helical domains ({alpha}1, {alpha}2 and {alpha}3) alternate with two domains predicted to form amphipathic ß-sheet structures (ß1 and ß2) (Segrest et al. 1994 and 1998). The {alpha}1 domain, although possessing amphipathic lipid-binding properties, displays weak interactions with LDL and possesses a globular character, in part due to its high density of intramolecular disulfide bonds (Yang et al. 1990) (bracketed numbers indicate the position of cysteine residues involved in disulfide bond formation). Despite the existence of the strong lipid-binding characteristics predicted for the ß1, ß2, {alpha}2 and {alpha}3domains, folding of the globular {alpha}1 domain is critical to initiate apoB-containing lipoprotein assembly.

 

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Two types of genetic disorders are characterized by the absence of plasma apoB-containing lipoproteins. Severe homozygous hypobetalipoproteinemia is caused by frameshift mutations within the apoB gene that result in premature translation termination. Mutations creating forms of apoB smaller than the amino terminal 28% of apoB (apoB-28) are undetectable in plasma and therefore considered null (Linton et al. 1993Citation ). Abetalipoproteinemia is a syndrome that is phenotypically similar to severe homozygous hypobetalipoproteinemia, but is not caused by defects in the apoB gene (Tamud et al. 1988Citation ). Using a candidate gene approach, Gregg, Wetterau and colleagues (Sharp et al. 1993Citation ) discovered that the absence of apoB-containing lipoproteins in abetalipoproteinemia is caused by mutations in the gene for the large subunit of microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP).

Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein was first identified biochemically as a neutral lipid transfer activity localized to the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Its expression is limited to the liver and intestine, the only two tissues that express large amounts of apoB (Wetterau and Zilversmit 1986Citation ). Purification of MTP revealed a heterodimer composed of a unique 97-kDa subunit complexed with the ubiquitous ER-localized chaperone/folding enzyme, protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) (Wetterau et al. 1990Citation ). The discovery of MTP gene defects associated with abetalipoproteinemia provided the first direct evidence that MTP is essential for the assembly and secretion of apoB-containing lipoproteins. This requirement can also be demonstrated experimentally, i.e., when forms of apoB longer than approximately the length of apoB-28 are transfected into a cell line lacking MTP, the protein is synthesized but does not undergo appreciable secretion. However, if the large subunit of MTP is cotransfected along with apoB, the process of lipoprotein assembly is reconstituted, resulting in a several-fold increase in buoyant apoB and triglyceride secretion (Gordon et al. 1994Citation , Leiper et al. 1994Citation ). The mechanism by which MTP functions to promote apoB-containing lipoprotein assembly is not known in detail. However, it is assumed, on the basis of its lipid transfer activity, that MTP transfers lipid from the inner leaflet of the ER membrane to apoB during its initial translation and translocation into the ER (Gordon et al. 1995Citation ). Other roles have been attributed to MTP, including that of a factor essential for apoB translocation across the ER membrane (Du et al. 1996Citation , see below) and possibly as a factor required for the post-translational addition of triglyceride to apoB (Alexander et al. 1976Citation , Rustaeus et al. 1998Citation , Wang et al. 1997Citation ).


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Many studies of apoB assembly and secretion have been performed in hepatocytes and hepatocarcinoma-derived cell lines, such as HepG2 and McA-RH7777. In these cells, a relatively small percentage of apoB undergoes assembly and secretion, with the remaining population subjected to ER retention and intracellular degradation (Borchardt and Davis 1987Citation , Dixon et al. 1991Citation , Sato et al. 1990Citation , White et al. 1992Citation ). In hepatoma cells, the proportion of apoB that is assembled into secretion-competent lipoproteins can be regulated in several ways, but appears ultimately to be determined by an intracellular pool of secretion-coupled lipid (Wu et al. 1996aCitation ). Oleic acid promotes apoB secretion by stimulating triglyceride synthesis and availability (Dixon et al. 1991Citation , Wu et al. 1996aCitation ), whereas (n-3) fatty acids inhibit apoB secretion presumably by reducing the ability of hepatocytes to synthesize or mobilize triglyceride for secretion (Wang et al. 1994Citation ). The relationship between apoB assembly and intracellular cholesterol and cholesteryl ester mass and synthesis has been controversial, with some investigators reporting a major regulatory role for the intracellular cholesterol esterifying enzyme, acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (Cianflone et al. 1990Citation , Musanti et al. 1996Citation , Thompson et al. 1996Citation ) and others observing that it is triglyceride synthesis alone that drives lipoprotein secretion (Benoist and Grand-Perret 1996Citation , Wu et al. 1994Citation ). Finally, phosphatidylcholine synthesis is an important potential regulator of apoB assembly and secretion (Yao and Vance 1988Citation ). Irrespective of the effects of lipids and other factors on apoB secretion, a prevailing view has emerged in which the apoB protein is made in excess and directed toward a pool involved in both particle assembly and secretion or intracellular degradation. The question of how the cell is able to distinguish between these two pools of apoB has important implications with respect to the regulation of VLDL triglyceride secretion and the prevention and management of genetically and environmentally induced hyperlipidemias.


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One highly cited hypothesis to account for how the cell distinguishes between apoB destined for assembly and degradation involves a phenomenon of regulated translocation across the ER membrane. Under this scenario, the translation and translocation of apoB become uncoupled after synthesis of the first 85 kDa of the protein (Du et al. 1994Citation ). This generates a transmembrane form in which the bulk of the protein mass is situated on the cytosolic side of the ER membrane. It has been proposed that if lipid becomes available, transmembrane apoB can undergo a process of post-translational "lipid-facilitated translocation" into the lumen of the ER (Sakata et al. 1993Citation ). However, if the translocation-arrested form of apoB persists, it is targeted for degradation by the ubiquitin/proteasome–mediated pathway in the cytosol (Fisher et al. 1997Citation , Yeung et al. 1996Citation ). In large part, this model of regulated translocation is based on the detection of transmembrane apoB by the use of exogenous proteases that degrade putatively cytosolic domains of apoB present in membrane-derived vesicles and permeabilized cells (Davis et al. 1990Citation , Dixon et al. 1992Citation , Du et al. 1994 and 1998Citation Citation , Macri and Adeli 1997Citation , Rusiñol et al. 1993Citation , Thrift et al. 1992Citation ). However, others have failed to confirm the existence of cytosolic apoB (Ingram and Shelness 1996Citation , Leiper et al. 1996Citation , Pease et al. 1995Citation , Shelness et al. 1994Citation , see below).


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The proper targeting and compartmentalization of proteins within cells requires topogenic signals, usually in the form of primary structural motifs. As with most proteins destined for secretion, apoB is synthesized with an amino terminal hydrophobic signal peptide that specifies targeting of the ribosome/nascent polypeptide chain complex to the ER membrane. Once the ribosome has been targeted and steps required for the initiation of translocation completed, translation and translocation across the ER membrane are believed to occur in coordinated fashion. The coupling of translation and translocation is due to the existence of a tight junction between the ribosome and the Sec61p translocation pore. Hence, in most cases, the nascent polypeptide chain is transferred from the ribosome directly to the ER lumen without encountering the cytosolic compartment (Johnson et al. 1995Citation ).

The interaction between the translating ribosome and the membrane can be dynamic. Studies by Lingappa and colleagues (Chuck et al. 1990Citation , Chuck and Lingappa 1992Citation ) utilizing cell-free translation of apoB in the presence of canine pancreas microsomes showed that the translocation of apoB into membrane vesicles becomes transiently uncoupled from its translation, thereby giving rise to cytoplasmic loops (Chuck et al. 1990Citation ). The sequence domains responsible for this behavior were termed "pause transfer" (Chuck and Lingappa 1992Citation ) and were mapped to multiple sites within apoB. Although the translocational pausing observed in this system is transient, conditions were developed under which apoB could be maintained in the paused condition for prolonged periods of time. Under these conditions, the pausing of translocation was accompanied by a disruption of the normally tight junction between the ribosome and the ER membrane (Hegde and Lingappa 1996Citation ). However, when translocation of paused intermediates was restarted, complete translocation of the nascent chain occurred. Hence, the translocation of apoB in a cell-free system occurs efficiently, albeit in a fashion that is not strictly coupled to translation.

The behavior of apoB in cell-free systems is distinct from the behavior in cells in which, at steady state, the majority of apoB is putatively found in a translocation-arrested form. Furthermore, the transmembrane apoB in cells has never convincingly been shown to be a metabolic precursor of fully translocated apoB (Du et al. 1998Citation , Macri and Adeli 1997Citation ). In an attempt to identify structural features of apoB required to achieve translocation arrest in cultured cells, a series of fusion proteins were developed in which 300 amino acid overlapping segments of apoB48 were appended to the amino-terminal 77 amino acids of a modified form of bovine preprolactin (Shelness et al. 1994Citation ). This strategy enabled the preprolactin region of each construct (considered to be a generic model secretory protein) to initiate ribosome targeting and translocation before the emergence of the apoB test sequence from the ribosome. The extent of translocation arrest or delay associated with each segment of apoB could then be measured by treating ER-derived membrane vesicles with exogenous protease and by examining the extent to which glycosylation sites engineered into the N- and C-terminal sides of the test sequences were utilized. On the basis of these criteria (virtually complete resistance to protease and little glycosylation heterogeneity), none of the apoB sequences was capable of detectably delaying or arresting translocation in transfected COS-1 cells (an MTP-negative cell line) or HepG2 cells (Ingram and Shelness 1996Citation , Shelness et al. 1994Citation ). These data demonstrated that neither pause transfer nor any other isolated domain present in apoB48 was capable singly of detectably delaying or arresting translocation in vivo.


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In unstimulated HepG2 cells, ~20% of the endogenously expressed apoB100 has been reported to undergo complete translocation into the lumen of the ER (Bonnardel and Davis 1995Citation , Du et al. 1994Citation ). This is similar to the amount of apoB that undergoes assembly into a secretable lipoprotein (Dixon et al. 1991Citation ) and is consistent with the idea that successful translocation is observed only when apoB assembles with lipids. However, when the percentage of transmembrane apoB in unstimulated HepG2 cells was systematically studied with the use of a protease protection assay, the mean percentage protection was 84 ± 18 (n = 14), a value similar to that observed for several control secretory proteins (Ingram and Shelness 1996Citation , Leiper et al. 1996Citation ). Furthermore, no significant difference in protease protection was observed in control cells or cells treated with N-acetyl-Leu-Leu-norleucinal (ALLN). N-Acetyl-Leu-Leu-norleucinal is a tripeptide derivative that inhibits a variety of cysteine proteases, including the cytoplasmic proteasome (Coux et al. 1996Citation ). Because it has been proposed that the substrate for the ALLN-inhibitable protease is the translocation-arrested form of apoB (Bonnardel and Davis 1995Citation , Sakata et al. 1993Citation , Thrift et al. 1992Citation , Yeung et al. 1996Citation ), one should see a relative increase in transmembrane apoB in ALLN-treated cells. However, despite a sixfold increase in the amount of intracellular apoB in ALLN-treated vs. control cells, the percentage of protease-resistant apoB remained uniformly high (Ingram and Shelness 1996Citation ). These results suggest that apoB destined for intracellular assembly into lipoprotein particles or destined for intracellular degradation by the ALLN-sensitive proteolytic system are both efficiently translocated into the ER lumen.

If apoB is efficiently translocated into the ER, how does it become exposed to the cytosolic proteasome? A general pathway for the disposal of misfolded secretory proteins at the level of the ER has been described recently. Surprisingly, these proteins appear to undergo a retrograde translocation (dislocation) reaction from the ER lumen to the cytosol (Hiller et al. 1996Citation , Qu et al. 1996Citation ). Apolipoprotein B may therefore undergo complete translocation into the ER followed by either a co- or post-translational dislocation of all or part of the apoB polypeptide chain into the cytosol (Fig. 2 ).The fact that this process generates little detectable transmembrane apoB indicates that the dislocation reaction may be temporally and mechanistically coupled to proteasome-mediated degradation (Kopito 1997Citation ). Although the disposal of apoB in hepatocarcinoma-derived cell lines appears to occur predominantly at the level of the ER, apoB turnover in primary rat hepatocytes may involve vesicular sorting to a post-ER compartment (Wang et al. 1995Citation ). In either case, the balance between assembly and presecretory degradation may represent a major control point for the production of hepatic VLDL.



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Figure 2. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated assembly and degradation of apolipoprotein (apo) B in hepatocarcinoma-derived cells. Apolipoprotein B destined for lipoprotein assembly or ER-associated degradation undergoes signal peptide-mediated targeting to the ER membrane (Step 1). In the presence of microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) and "secretion-coupled" lipid, apoB initiates cotranslational lipoprotein assembly (Step 2). Apolipoprotein B that fails to assemble with lipid (Step 2') may be targeted for retrograde translocation and proteasome-mediated degradation (Step 3'). This degradation pathway may occur both cotranslationally (as shown) (Benoist and Grand-Perret 1997Citation ) or post-translationally. Although Steps 2' and 3' are shown giving rise to completely unlipidated apoB, underlipidated forms of apoB-containing particles may predominate under conditions of limiting lipid availability (Rustaeus et al. 1998) (left side of figure). These particles possess insufficient surface to accommodate the proper folding of the entire apoB molecule, resulting in exposure of apolar domains that may aggregate or insert into the lipid bilayer. These fully translocated and misassembled forms of apoB are presumably the substrate for the post-translational assembly of membrane-bound apoB that can be induced by stimulation of triglyceride synthesis and mobilization (Sakata et al. 1993). Alternatively, these particles may undergo degradation at the level of the ER as shown, or by a post-ER degradation pathway (Wang et al. 1995).

 

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The initial association of apoB with lipids is believed to occur during its cotranslational translocation into the ER. The basis for this prediction lies in the fact that if nascent chains of apoB in HepG2 cells are released from the ribosome with puromycin, they are recovered from the ER in the form of nascent lipoprotein particles whose diameter increases as a function of apoB length (Borén et al. 1992Citation , Spring et al. 1992Citation ). The same relationship between apoB length and lipoprotein size was observed for a series of C-terminally truncated forms of apoB expressed in rat hepatoma cells (Graham et al. 1991Citation , McLeod et al. 1994Citation , Yao et al. 1991Citation ). However, this relationship applies only in the size range between apoB-25 and -100. Forms of apoB containing less than the amino-terminal ~25% of the protein do not require MTP or assembly with lipid to achieve secretion competence and are recovered from transfected cell media in lipid-poor form.

Although the initial formation of apoB-containing lipoproteins may occur cotranslationally, virtually nothing is known of how the initial folding of apoB and its interactions with MTP, lipids, the ER membrane and ER-associated chaperones initiate this process. Because it is the first domain to enter the ER, considerable attention was focused on the structure and function of the globular {alpha}1 domain of apoB. As outlined above and diagrammed in Figure 1 , apoB has been described in terms of a pentapartite structure in which three amphipathic {alpha}-helical domains alternate with two domains proposed to form amphipathic ß-sheet structures. Interestingly, the {alpha}1 domain possesses the following properties distinct from those of the rest of the apoB protein: 1) it is globular and highly disulfide bonded [6 of the 8 disulfide bonds in apoB-100 are positioned within the amino-terminal 11% of the protein (Yang et al. 1990Citation )]; 2) it demonstrates a lower affinity for plasma LDL particle than internal and carboxyl-terminal domains (Chan 1992Citation , Segrest et al. 1994Citation ); and 3) in transfected cells, forms of apoB containing only the {alpha}1 domain (e.g., apoB-18) lack the capacity to recruit a significant amount of lipid and can be secreted independently of MTP (Graham et al. 1991Citation , Yao et al. 1991Citation ).

Because of the asymmetric distribution of disulfide bonds in the {alpha}1 domain, the thiol-reducing agent dithiothreitol was used to perturb its folding and assess the effects on the capacity of apoB to initiate lipoprotein formation (Ingram and Shelness 1997Citation , Shelness and Thornburg 1996Citation ). These studies revealed the following features of {alpha}1 domain that are relevant to understanding how apoB-containing lipoprotein assembly may be initiated: 1) The {alpha}1 domain of apoB was observed to fold during the process of translation, consistent with a domain-specific folding reaction that is completed before the translation and translocation of the more internal lipophilic regions of apoB (i.e., the ß1 domain). 2) The cotranslational folding of the {alpha}1 domain occurred to a similar extent and with similar kinetics in both hepatoma and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, which lack MTP. Therefore, the folding of this domain is achieved independently of MTP and before events associated with buoyant lipoprotein formation. 3) Forms of apoB in which folding of the {alpha}1 domain was blocked were incapable of undergoing detectable assembly with lipid. Hence, in addition to its unique structural properties and folding kinetics, the amino terminal {alpha}1 region of apoB was indeed shown to be essential to initiate lipoprotein formation in the ER.


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Although apoB-17 is secreted in lipid-poor form from both hepatic and nonhepatic cells, Herscovitz et al. (1991)Citation demonstrated that apoB-17 can bind to dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine multilamellar vesicles and convert them to discoidal recombinant lipoproteins in vitro. In addition, apoB-15, translated in vitro in the presence of rat liver microsomes, undergoes association with newly synthesized phosphatidylcholine (Rusiñol et al. 1997Citation ). Hence, one potential function of the {alpha}1 domain may be to recruit a phospholipid surface early in translation that would then serve as an acceptor site for MTP-mediated lipid transfer (lower right corner of Fig. 3).The subsequent delivery of neutral lipid to this site, concomitant with the translation and translocation of the internal lipophilic regions of apoB into the ER, would drive the formation of a primordial core-containing lipoprotein, akin to the maturation of discoidal HDL to spherical HDL (Hamilton et al. 1976Citation , Tall and Small 1978Citation ). Another potential function of the {alpha}1 domain of apoB may be to associate with the inner leaflet of the ER membrane. This association may initiate formation of a triglyceride droplet (Fig. 3 , upper right corner). At some point during or after translation, this droplet may bud from the membrane into the lumen of the ER (Atkinson and Small 1986Citation , Olofsson et al. 1987Citation , Schumaker et al. 1994Citation ). In support of this model, Pease et al. (1991)Citation showed that during cell-free translation in the presence of dog pancreas microsomes, apoB-17 translocates into the inner leaflet of the ER membrane in a form that cannot be extracted with sodium carbonate, pH 11.5. Yet another potential function of the {alpha}1 domain of apoB is to provide a binding site for MTP (Fig. 3 , upper left corner). Wu et al. (1996b)Citation demonstrated that MTP is physically associated with apoB during lipoprotein assembly in the ER on the basis of co-immunoprecipitation of both apoB and MTP with antibodies directed against either of the two proteins. Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein interacts with forms of apoB containing as little as the amino-terminal ~17% of the protein (Hussain et al. 1997Citation , Patel and Grundy 1996Citation ). These studies indicate that apoB may engage MTP at an early stage of its translation and that this interaction is critical to achieve net lipid transfer to apoB during its translation and/or to serve as a chaperone for critical folding and assembly events necessary for lipoprotein particle assembly (Fig. 3 , upper left panel).



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Figure 3. Hypothetical functions of the {alpha}1 domain of apolipoprotein (apo) B in the initiation of apoB-containing lipoprotein assembly. Previous results demonstrated that if folding of the amino-terminal disulfide-bonded domain of apoB is disrupted by dithiothreitol (Ingram and Shelness 1997, Shelness and Thornburg 1996) or mutagenesis (Gretch et al. 1996Citation , Huang and Shelness 1997Citation , Tran et al. 1998Citation ), apoB is incapable of engaging in lipoprotein formation. Several hypothetical functions of the amino terminal domain of apoB that may be essential for the initiation of lipoprotein formation are diagrammed and discussed in text. Abbreviations: MTP, microsomal triglyceride transfer protein; PL, phospholipid; TG, triglyceride.

 
Although the various properties of the {alpha}1 domain of apoB diagrammed in Figure 3 and discussed above are intriguing, their relationship to the mechanism of apoB-containing lipoprotein assembly remains speculative. A molecular description of this process awaits the development of more detailed structural and functional characterization of the apoB protein, a task that is currently underway in several laboratories.


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1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Back

1 Presented at the symposium "Assembly and Physiology of Apolipoprotein B-Containing Lipoproteins It's Not Just for Heart Disease Anymore!" as part of Experimental Biology 98, April 18–22, 1998, San Francisco, CA. The symposium was sponsored by the Energy and Macronutrient Research Interest Section of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the Egg Nutrition Center, the American Heart Association-Western States Affiliate, Merck Research Laboratories, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute and Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research. Published as a supplement to The Journal of Nutrition. Guest editors for this supplement were Rosemary L. Walzem, University of California, Davis, and Robert L. Hamilton, University of California, San Francisco, CA. Back

2 Supported by National Institutes of Health Grant HL49373 and an established Investigatorship from the American Heart Association. Back

3 Abbreviations used: ALLN, N-acetyl-Leu-Leu-norleucinal; apo, apolipoprotein; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; MTP, microsomal triglyceride transfer protein; PDI, protein disulfide isomerase. Back


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