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Description

Albumin is a soluble, monomeric protein which comprises about one half of the blood serum protein. Albumin functions primarily as a carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and plays a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume. Mutations in this gene on chromosome 4 result in various anomalous proteins. Albumin is a globular unglycosylated serum protein of molecular weight 65,000. The human albumin gene is 16,961 nucleotides long from the putative 'cap' site to the first poly(A) addition site. It is split into 15 exons which are symmetrically placed within the 3 domains that are thought to have arisen by triplication of a single primordial domain. Albumin is synthesized in the liver as preproalbumin which has an N terminal peptide that is removed before the nascent protein is released from the rough endoplasmic reticulum. The product, proalbumin, is in turn cleaved in the Golgi vesicles to produce the secreted albumin.

Bioinformatics

Entrez	11657 Mouse 213 Human 24186 Rat 280717 Bovine 443393 Sheep
Uniprot	AAH34023 Human AAH36003.1 Human P02768 Human P02769 Bovine P07724 Mouse
Product By Gene ID	213
Alternate Names	albumin cell growth inhibiting protein 42 DKFZp779N1935 growth-inhibiting protein 20 PRO0883 PRO0903 PRO1341 serum albumin

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