Serum Albumin

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Serum albumin is a long-standing acquaintance of the protein chemist, who often selects this readily available peptide as a model for physical or chemical studies. Albumin has become popular for so many uses that a host of different preparations for specific needs is now available from a multitude of suppliers. Yet one gains the impression from the literature that some investigators simply buy “serum albumin” and assume that one preparation is the same as another and that each contains only pure, native, monomeric albumin. Variation among preparations can also affect results; reports appear regularly comparing batches of commercial albumins, for instance, for their behavior in analytical methods, as acceptors of fatty acids from lipoprotein lipase action, in organ perfusates for liver preservation, or in turnover studies following iodination. This chapter reviews the properties of albumin as well as the considerable amount of new information, which has appeared in the past decade about the primary structure, genetics, biosynthesis, and functional interactions of this well-known but little-understood protein.

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