title: Regulation of hepatic apolipoprotein-B-containing lipoprotein secretion.
abstract: The overall secretion of hepatic lipid as VLDL may be regulated by (i) changing the number of particles secreted as a result of altering apolipoprotein B output and (ii) changing the degree of lipidation of the particles with triacylglycerol so that their diameters vary over a threefold range. Substantial progress has been made in understanding the pathway of triacylglycerol incorporation into VLDL. Less is understood about the processes that commit apolipoprotein B either to secretion or to presecretory degradation, although both regulated translocation and an early lipidation step of the nascent particle with cholesterol or cholesterol ester have been implicated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College, London, UK.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Pease
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Leiper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001055:Apolipoproteins B / Q000378:metabolism*; D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000378:metabolism; D053480:Cholesterol Ester Transfer Proteins; D002788:Cholesterol Esters / Q000378:metabolism; D006023:Glycoproteins; D006801:Humans; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001055:Apolipoproteins B; C506642:CETP protein, human; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D053480:Cholesterol Ester Transfer Proteins; D002788:Cholesterol Esters; D006023:Glycoproteins; D008074:Lipoproteins; D014280:Triglycerides; D002784:Cholesterol