Are Apolipoprotein AI-M dimers of restricted usefulness?
“One amino acid has been replaced with a cysteine residue in an enzyme that normally assembles high density lipoproteins (HDLs), which are involved in removing bad cholesterol from arteries. The mutant form of the enzyme is less effective at what it is supposed to do, but it does act as an antioxidant, which seems to prevent atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries).
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