The N-terminal 1000 residues of apolipoprotein B associate with microsomal triglyceride transfer protein to create a lipid transfer pocket required for lipoprotein assembly.
Dashti N, Gandhi M, Liu X, Lin X, Segrest JP.
Dashti N, et al.
Biochemistry. 2002 Jun 4;41(22):6978-87. doi: 10.1021/bi011757l.
Biochemistry. 2002.
PMID: 12033930
We recently reported that the first 1000 residues of human apoB-100 have sequence and amphipathic motif homologies to the lipid-pocket of lamprey lipovitellin (LV) [Segrest, J. P., Jones, M. K., and Dashti, N. (1999) J. Lipid Res. 40, 1401-1416]. The lipid-pocket of …
We recently reported that the first 1000 residues of human apoB-100 have sequence and amphipathic motif homologies to the lipid-pocket of la …