Bovine serum albumin

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Organism Bos taurus (domestic cow)
SymbolALB
Entrez 280717
HomoloGene 105925
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_180992
RefSeq (Prot) NP_851335
UniProt P02769
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Bovine serum albumin (BSA or "Fraction V") is a serum albumin protein derived from cows. It is often used as a protein concentration standard in lab experiments.

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The nickname "Fraction V" refers to albumin being the fifth fraction of the original Edwin Cohn purification methodology that made use of differential solubility characteristics of plasma proteins. By manipulating solvent concentrations, pH, salt levels, and temperature, Cohn was able to pull out successive "fractions" of blood plasma. The process was first commercialized with human albumin for medical use and later adopted for production of BSA.

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Lyophilized Bovine Serum Albumin

Properties

The full-length BSA precursor polypeptide is 607 amino acids (AAs) in length. An N-terminal 18-residue signal peptide is cut off from the precursor protein upon secretion, hence the initial protein product contains 589 amino acid residues. An additional six amino acids are cleaved to yield the mature BSA protein that contains 583 amino acids. [1]

BSA has three homologous but structurally different domains. The domains, named I, II, and III, are broken down into two sub-domains, A and B. [1]

PeptidePositionLength (AAs)MW Da
Full length precursor 1 – 60760769,324
Signal peptide  1 –  18182,107
Propeptide19 –  246478
Mature protein25 – 60758366,463

Physical properties of BSA:

Function

BSA, like other serum albumins, is critical in providing oncotic pressure within capillaries, transporting fatty acids, bilirubin, minerals and hormones, and functioning as both an anticoagulant and an antioxidant. [9] There are approximately 6 different long chain fatty acid binding sites on the protein, the three strongest of which are located one per each domain. BSA can also bind other substances such as salicylate, sulfonamides, bilirubin, and other drugs, which bind to “site 1” in subdomain IIA, while tryptophan, thyroxine, octanoate and other drugs that are aromatic in nature bind to “site 2” in subdomain IIIA. [10]

Applications

BSA is often used a model for other serum albumin proteins, especially human serum albumin, to which it is 76% structurally homologous. [11]

BSA has numerous biochemical applications including ELISAs (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay), immunoblots, and immunohistochemistry. Because BSA is a small, stable, moderately non-reactive protein, it is often used as a blocker in immunohistochemistry. [12] During immunohistochemistry, which is the process that uses antibodies to identify antigens in cells, tissue sections are often incubated with BSA blockers to bind nonspecific binding sites. [13] [14] This binding of BSA to nonspecific binding sites increases the chance that the antibodies will bind only to the antigens of interest. [15] The BSA blocker improves sensitivity by decreasing background noise as the sites are covered with the moderately non-reactive protein. [16] [17] During this process, minimization of nonspecific binding of antibodies is essential in order to acquire the highest signal to noise ratio. [16] BSA is also used as a nutrient in cell and microbial culture. In restriction digests, BSA is used to stabilize some enzymes during the digestion of DNA and to prevent adhesion of the enzyme to reaction tubes, pipette tips, and other vessels. [18] This protein does not affect other enzymes that do not need it for stabilization. BSA is also commonly used to determine the quantity of other proteins, by comparing an unknown quantity of protein to known amounts of BSA (see Bradford protein assay). BSA is used because of its ability to increase signal in assays, its lack of effect in many biochemical reactions, and its low cost, since large quantities of it can be readily purified from bovine blood, a byproduct of the cattle industry. Another use for BSA is that it can be used to temporarily isolate substances that are blocking the activity of the enzyme that is needed, thus impeding polymerase chain reaction (PCR). [19] BSA has been widely used as a template to synthesize nanostructures [20] and determining the toxic or beneficial effects of metal ions and their complexes. [21]

BSA is also the main constituent of fetal bovine serum, a common cell culture medium.

See also

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