Cholestery] ester Phospholipid Unesterified cholesterol Apolipoprotein B-100
Figurę 12-83 LDL, the major cholesterol carrier of the bloodstream. This spheroidal particie consists of some 1500 cholesteryl ester molecules surrounded by an amphiphilic coat of 800 phospholipid molecules, 500 cholesterol molecules, and a single 4536-residue molecule of apolipoprotein B-100.