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Function

Apolipoproteins are proteins that coat lipoprotein surface that binds lipids such as cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or high-density lipoproteins (HDL) in lipid metabolism. They function in the transport of such lipids in their structure that acts as a ligand to cell receptors and lipid transport proteins. Amphipathic structural behavior are what allows the interaction between hydrophobic properties of water, such as in the blood stream and hydrophobic lipids.

Apolipoprotein A-I is a protein APOA1 gene in humans that is a component of HDL, which a form of good cholesterol in human's diet, used in the transport of cholesterol phospholipids in the body through the bloodstream in the reverse transport of cholesterol from the tissues to the liver of hepatocytes.

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Structural highlights

Apolipoprotein a-1 (apoA-I) is a fairly small molecule that consists of a total of 243 residues and is 29-kD polypeptide in size. Structure in is shown in rainbow, in arrangement from N-terminus (red) of amine group to C-terminus (dark blue) end of carboxyl group.

Apolipoprotein a-1 in the monomer form truncated (lacking 1-43 residues) consists of unique pseudo-continuous alpha helix highlighted by kinks at , spaced approximately every 22 residues.

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