title: Prevention of Copper-mediated Lipoprotein Oxidation by Heme-containing Proteins from the Plasma of Japanese Eel Anguilla japonica.
abstract: A brown-colored fraction containing heme was separated from the lipoprotein-free plasma of Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica). This fraction prevented the oxidation of very-low-density lipoprotein incubated with CuSO4 ranging in concentration from 0.5 to 3 μM. The antioxidant activity seemed to derive from the heme-binding proteins of the brown-colored fraction.
authors.affiliation: a Lipoprotein Research Laboratory, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ando
keywords: Japanese eel; antioxidant activity; heme-binding proteins; plasma lipoproteins; very-low-density lipoprotein