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  • Title: Interfacial properties of recombinant human cholesterol ester transfer protein.
    Author: Weinberg RB, Cook VR, Jones JB, Kussie P, Tall AR.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1994 Nov 25; 269(47):29588-91. PubMed ID: 7961945.
    Abstract:
    We investigated the interfacial behavior of recombinant human cholesterol ester transfer protein (rCETP) using monolayer and surface balance techniques. rCETP bound to egg phosphatidylcholine monolayers spread at the air/water interface with a maximum surface pressure of 23 millinewtons (mN)/m at subphase concentrations between 3 and 5 x 10(-5) g/dl; the estimated dissociation constant was 7.5 x 10(-6) g/dl or 1 nM. The binding of rCETP to the lipid interface decreased linearly with increasing initial surface pressure; rCETP was excluded at pressures greater than 31 mN/m. rCETP catalyzed the desorption of [14C]cholesterol oleate from mixed lipid monolayers in a concentration dependent fashion. Similar studies with apolipoproteins A-I and A-IV established that cholesterol ester desorption was not caused by changes in surface pressure or cholesterol ester solubility. The desorption rate was proportional to subphase rCETP concentration, but at all concentrations surface radioactivity remained constant until surface pressure reached a plateau. The calculated binding stochiometry was one molecule of cholesterol ester desorbed for every 1000 molecules of rCETP in the subphase. We conclude that rCETP is surface active, binds to phospholipid monolayers with an affinity equivalent to that of the plasma apolipoproteins, and effects the desorption of cholesterol ester molecules from phospholipid monolayers by a carrier mechanism. Moreover, the relatively low equilibrium surface pressure of rCETP suggests that when bound to lipid the entire rCETP molecule may not penetrate the interface.
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