Interactions of Protein, Lipid and Metal Ions in the Low-Density Lipoprotein of Hen's-Egg Yolk

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-659
Author(s):  
JOHN C. SWANN ◽  
GEOFFREY W. SMITHERS ◽  
RALPH W. BURLEY
Keyword(s):  
Metal Ions ◽  
Low Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Hen’S Egg

Characterization of glycopeptides derived from the low-density lipoprotein of hen's egg yolk

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 983-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Z. Augustyniak ◽  
W. G. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Low Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Amide Nitrogen ◽  
Acetylneuraminic Acid ◽  
Hen’S Egg ◽  
Terminal Amino ◽  
Protein Moiety

Two glycopeptides (A and B) were isolated from pronase-digested vitellenin, the protein moiety of the low-density lipoprotein of hen's egg yolk. Aspartic acid was the only N-terminal amino acid of both glycopeptides but only A contained N-acetylneuraminic acid. A contained 55% hexose (mannose), 14% hexosamine, 12% N-acetylneuraminic acid, 0.71% amide nitrogen, and its molecular weight was 2.3 × 103. The corresponding values for B were 64, 17, 0.0, 0.75, and 2.0 × 103. Chemical analyses showed that B (and probably A) occurs in vitellenin with the heteropolysaccharide group bound N-glycosidically via the β-amide group of an asparaginyl residue. The indicated structure is R∙(NH)Asp∙Thr∙Ser∙(Ala, Gly, Val)∙Ile, where R, the heteropolysaccharide group, contains 2 hexosamine and 8 hexose residues.

ISOLATION AND COMPOSITION OF AVIAN EGG YOLK GRANULES AND THEIR CONSTITUENT α- AND β-LIPOVITELLINS

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1295-1307 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Burley ◽  
W. H. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Phosphorus Content ◽  
Low Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
Low Density ◽  
High Molecular Weight Complex ◽  
Yolk Granules ◽  
Hen’S Egg

The yolk granules from hen's egg represent on a dry basis 23% of the yolk solids, and they contain about 90% of the protein phosphorus, 95% of the iron, and nearly 70% of the calcium in yolk. Ultracentrifugal and other analyses on solutions of the granules show that they are 70% α- and β-lipovitellin in an approximate ratio of 1:1.8, 16% phosvitin, and 12% low-density lipoprotein. The properties and composition of the two lipovitellins isolated from the granules are the same as those isolated from solutions of whole yolk. Further purification reduces the protein phosphorus in α-lipovitellin to 0.50% and in β-lipovitellin to 0.27%, and this confirms that α-vitellin has a higher phosphorus content. Experiments at low temperature suggest that phosvitin exists in the granules as a high molecular weight complex.

Freeze–thaw gelation of hen's egg yolk low density lipoprotein

1976 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 913-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virendra Kamat ◽  
Gillian Graham ◽  
Martin Barratt ◽  
Morris Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Low Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Freeze Thaw ◽  
Hen’S Egg
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