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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci. 2006 Jun;11(2-3):171–183. doi: 10.1016/j.cocis.2005.11.006

Table 2.

Average number of protein and lipid molecules of lipoproteinsa

Molecules HDL3 [31] HDL2 [31] LDL VLDL1 [32] VLDL2 [32]
ApoA 4 5 N/A N/A N/A
ApoB N/A N/A 1 [33] 1 1
ApoC ± 1 N/A 90 36
ApoE 0.8 [34] 1 [34] 0.1 [35] 1–2 1–3
Phospholipids 93 189 700 [36] 4700 2600
Free cholesterol 11 52 600 [36] 1200 800
Cholesterol ester 44 109 1600 [36] 2400 1600
Triglycerides 9 18 170 [36] 19,000 6600
a

References are shown in brackets.