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(Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 1997;17:348-353.)
© 1997 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Homozygous Familial Defective Apolipoprotein B-100

Enhanced Removal of Apolipoprotein E–Containing VLDLs and Decreased Production of LDLs

Juergen R. Schaefer; Hubert Scharnagl; Manfred W. Baumstark; Horst Schweer; Loren A. Zech¹; Hansjorg Seyberth; Karl Winkler; Armin Steinmetz; Winfried Marz

the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Philipps-University Marburg, (J.R.S., H. Schweer, H. Seyberth, A.S.), the Division of Clinical Chemistry (H. Scharnagl, K.W., W.M.), and the Division of Sports Medicine (M.W.B.), Department of Medicine, Albert Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany, and the Molecular Disease Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md (L.A.Z.).

Familial defective apolipoprotein B-100 (FDB) is a frequently inherited disorder of lipoprotein metabolism. The glutamine-for-arginine substitution at position 3500 of apolipoprotein (apo) B-100 leads to defective binding of apo B-100 to the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor and accumulation of LDL in the plasma. We recently identified a patient homozygous for this mutation. His LDL cholesterol and apo B concentrations were approximately twice normal, whereas his apo E plasma level was low. Using a stable-isotope labeling technique ([²H₃]leucine–primed constant infusion), we studied lipoprotein turnover in vivo in the fasting state in this patient and three clinically healthy, normolipidemic individuals not carrying the FDB mutation. The residence time of LDL apo B-100 was prolonged 3.6-fold in the FDB homozygote (8.3 vs 2.3 days). The production rate of LDL apo B-100 was decreased (7.4 vs 15 mg per kg per day). In FDB the residence time of very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) apo B-100 was longer (2.6 vs 1.3 hours), whereas the residence time of VLDL apo E was shorter (2.6 vs 4.5 hours) than normal. These data show that the in vivo metabolism of apo B-100–containing lipoproteins in FDB is different from that in familial hypercholesterolemia, in which LDL receptors are defective. In both conditions the residence times of LDL apo B-100 appear to be increased to approximately the same degree. This contrasts with the LDL apo B-100 synthetic rate, which is increased in familial hypercholesterolemia and decreased in FDB. The decreased production of LDL apo B-100 in FDB may originate from enhanced removal of apo E–containing LDL precursors by LDL receptors, which may be upregulated in response to the decreased flux of LDL-derived cholesterol into hepatocytes.

Key Words: hypercholesterolemia • apolipoprotein B-100 • atherosclerosis • genetic disease • stable-isotope tracer kinetics

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