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Lipid Research Clinic, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
The Radioimmunoassay Laboratory of the Division of Metabolism, and General Clinical Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
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The Radioimmunoassay Laboratory of the Division of Metabolism, and General Clinical Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
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The Radioimmunoassay Laboratory of the Division of Metabolism, and General Clinical Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
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Lipid Research Clinic, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
The Radioimmunoassay Laboratory of the Division of Metabolism, and General Clinical Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
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The Radioimmunoassay Laboratory of the Division of Metabolism, and General Clinical Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
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Published July 1, 1977 - More info
A specific, precise, and sensitive double-antibody radioimmunoassay for the measurement of human apolipoprotein CII (apoCII) was developed. ApoCII was labeled with 125I (chloramine-T) and monospecific antibody was raised in rabbits. No appreciable cross-reactivity with apolipoproteins CI, CIII, AI, AII, low density lipoproteins, and lipoprotein-free plasma was observed. Lipoproteins containing apoCII displaced the standard curve in parallel. ApoCII measurement was not affected by pretreatment of plasma with tetramethylurea, ethanol-diethyl ether, or heating.
Mean (±SE) plasma-immunoreactive apoCII in 47 normotriglyceridemic subjects was 51.8±3.2 μg/ml, generally comparable with previous estimates of its concentration by other methods. ApoCII levels in 9 subjects with type IIB lipoprotein pattern, 14 with the type IV lipoprotein pattern, and 5 with type V lipoprotein pattern were respectively, 89.9±4.6, 85.4±6.9, 132.8±21.0 μg/ml, all higher than normals (P < 0.001). Plasma apoCII and triglyceride concentrations correlated in normo- and hypertriglyceridemics (r = 0.36 and 0.58, P < 0.05). Plasma triglycerides correlated inversely with the fraction of total apoCII in very low density lipoprotein (VLDL)-free plasma (r = −0.75, P < 0.01). There was no correlation between plasma apoCII and high density lipoprotein cholesterol.
In normotriglyceridemics, VLDL apoCII levels correlated with in vitro lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activator activities (r = 0.89, P < 0.01). In hypertriglyceridemic subjects the mean concentrations of apoCII per milligrams VLDL protein, LPL activator activity per milligrams VLDL protein, and LPL activator activity per micrograms VLDL apoCII were all lower than in normotriglyceridemics, P < 0.05.
As plasma triglycerides and apoCII increase, apoCII is redistributed from high density lipoprotein to VLDL. However, the amount of apoCII per milligram VLDL protein and its LPL activator potency per milligram VLDL protein are reduced. These factors may contribute to impaired VLDL catabolism.