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In their acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1985, MichaelBrown and Joseph Goldstein said, “Cholesterol is a Janus-facedmolecule. The very property that makes it useful in cell membranes,namely its absolute insolubility in water, also makes it lethal.”Can you explain this remark?

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Triacylglycerols phospholipids cholesteroland cholesterol esters are transported in plasma with proteins lipoproteins These lipidprotein complex function as a lipid transport system as lipid is insoluble in blood There are four types of lipoproteins in blood Chylomicrons Very low density lipoproteins    See Answer
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