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ArticleMolecular immunology2012

Structural and immunologic characterization of bovine, horse, and rabbit serum albumins.

Karolina A Majorek, Przemyslaw J Porebski, Arjun Dayal, Matthew D Zimmerman, Kamila Jablonska, Alan J Stewart, Maksymilian Chruszcz, Wladek Minor

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Article in Molecular immunology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 238 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

238 citing papers in PubMed, 947 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Karolina A MajorekDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Przemyslaw J Porebski
Arjun Dayal
Matthew D Zimmerman
Kamila Jablonska
Alan J Stewart
Maksymilian Chruszcz
Wladek Minor
University of Virginia · USUniversity of St Andrews · GB

Funding

The NYSGRC: A Large Scale Center for PSI:BiologyU54GM094662 · NIGMS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI SEIDEL, RONALD D · 2010 to 2014
$32.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM094662NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM094662
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serum albumin (SA) is the most abundant plasma protein in mammals. SA is a multifunctional protein with extraordinary ligand binding capacity, making it a transporter molecule for a diverse range of metabolites, drugs, nutrients, metals and other molecules. Due to its ligand binding properties, albumins have wide clinical, pharmaceutical, and biochemical applications. Albumins are also allergenic, and exhibit a high degree of cross-reactivity due to significant sequence and structure similarity of SAs from different organisms. Here we present crystal structures of albumins from cattle (BSA), horse (ESA) and rabbit (RSA) sera. The structural data are correlated with the results of immunological studies of SAs. We also analyze the conservation or divergence of structures and sequences of SAs in the context of their potential allergenicity and cross-reactivity. In addition, we identified a previously uncharacterized ligand binding site in the structure of RSA, and calcium binding sites in the structure of BSA, which is the first serum albumin structure to contain metal ions.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsBinding SitesCalciumCalcium-Binding ProteinsCattleCrystallizationHorsesHypersensitivityModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataProtein BindingProtein Structure, SecondaryRabbitsSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, ProteinCalciumCalcium-Binding ProteinsSerum Albumin

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PMID22677715
PMCPMC3401331
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