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apo e3

Allelic form of apo E; wildtype or most frequent form. Structure: - Cys :site C112 - Met :site M125 - Arg :site R158 Laboratory: - apolipoprotein E3 in blood

Properties

GENERAL: apolipoprotein E RELATED: apolipoprotein E genotype apolipoprotein-E gene SIZE: entity length = 317 aa MW = 36 kD COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment FORM: apo e3 MOTIF: signal sequence {1-18} consensus repeat {80-101} consensus repeat {102-123} consensus repeat {124-145} consensus repeat {146-167} Ser phosphorylation site {S147} LDL receptor binding {158-168} MOTIF: binding site SITE: 162-165 FOR-BINDING-OF: heparin consensus repeat {168-189} consensus repeat {190-211} consensus repeat {212-233} Thr glycosylation site {T212} binding site SITE: 229-236 FOR-BINDING-OF: heparin consensus repeat {234-255} Thr glycosylation site {T307} Ser glycosylation site {S308} SECRETED-BY: hepatocyte astrocyte WITHIN: central nervous system COMPONENT-OF: chylomicron MISC-INFO: CONCENTRATION 2-6 MG/DL

References

  1. OMIM :accession 107741
  2. Strittmatter WJ et al Apolipoprotein E: high-avidity binding to beta-amyloid and increased frequency of type 4 allele in late-onset familial Alzheimer disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1993 Mar 1;90(5):1977-81 PMID: 8446617

Databases & Figures

OMIM correlations MORBIDMAP 107741 UniProt P02649 Pfam PF01442 Entrez Gene 348 Kegg hsa:348 ApoE allele frequencies