Effect of unesterified cholesterol on the compartmentation of a fluorescent cholesteryl ester in a lipoprotein-like lipid microemulsion.

The access of enzymes and lipid transfer proteins to neutral lipids located predominantly in the core compartment of lipoproteins may be determined to some degree by the solubility of the neutral lipids in the surface monolayer of phospholipid. This report concerns the hypothesis that unesterfied ch...

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Main Authors: QT Li, WH Sawyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1992-04-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520416165