“…The plasma form of human apoAII consists of two identical polypeptide chains of 77 amino acids each linked by a disulfide bond at residue 6 (Brewer et al, 1972). Protein (Gordon et al, 1983(Gordon et al, , 1984 and DNA sequence analyses of the apoAII gene (Knott et al, 1984;Lackner et al, 1984;Sharpe et al, 1984;Tsao et al, 1985) have shown that the primary translation product of apoAII mRNA consists of 100 amino acids including an 18-residue-long signal peptide (Gordon et al, 1983(Gordon et al, , 1984Knott et al, 1984;Lackner et al, 1984;Sharpe et al, 1984;Tsao et al, 1985). The newly secreted apoAII consists of 82 residues and contains a 5-residue-long N-terf Supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (HL33952 and HL26335).…”