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Quoc Hung Pham 3/3/09
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Human Serum Albumin
About this Structure
This is the Human Serum Albumin(HSA),it has (shown in red), (shown in blue), and the parts. HSA is an abundant transport protein found in plasma that binds a wide variety of drugs in two primary binding sites (I and II) and can have a significant impact on their pharmacokinetics.
Reference: Crystal structure analysis of warfarin binding to human serum albumin: anatomy of drug site I.,Petitpas, I., Bhattacharya, A.A., Twine, S., East, M., Curry, S., VJ.Biol.Chem. v276 pp. 22804-9, 2001
