BACKGROUND Peroxynitrite generated from nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide (O2-) contributes to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Feedback inhibition of endothelial NO synthase by NO may inhibit O2- production generated also by endothelial NO synthase at diminished local L-arginine concentrations accompanying I/R. METHODS AND RESULTS During hindlimb I/R (2.5 hours/2 hours), in vivo NO was moni...

Human serum albumin (HSA) reduced the phospholipid hydroperoxide, 1-palmitoyl-2-(13-hydroperoxy-cis-9, trans-11-octadecadienoyl)-l-3-phosphatidylcholine (PLPC-OOH) to the corresponding hydroxy-derivative with a high apparent affinity (Km=9. 23+/-0.95 microM). Removal of bound lipid during purification increased this activity. At physiological concentration, HSA reduced the phospholipid hydroper...

Human serum albumin (HSA) has been allowed to react with varying amounts of iodine under mild conditions. Almost all of the tyrosyl residues of HSA may be converted to iodotyrosyl residues (primarily diiodotyrosyl) without producing significant changes in the conformation of the protein. Difference spectral measurements in urea show the disappearance of “burled” tyrosyl and the appearance of “b...

The interaction between 6-shogaol, a pharmacologically active ginger constituent, and human serum albumin (HSA), the main in vivo drug transporter, was investigated using isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). The value of the binding constant, Ka (5.02 ± 1.37 × 104 M−1) obtained for the 6-shogaol–HSA system suggested intermediate affinity. Analysis of the ITC data revealed feasibility of the ...

BACKGROUND An appreciable number of patients with toluene diisocyanate (TDI)-induced asthma have high serum levels of specific IgE (sIgE) antibody to TDI-human serum albumin conjugate (HSA). A recent investigation suggested a role of specific IgG (sIgG) in the development of TDI asthma. METHODS We observed the changes in the levels of specific IgE and IgG antibodies to TDIHSA conjugate in TDI...

In this research the interaction of Pyrene (Cullm) as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with human serumalbumin (HSA) has been investigated. Variations of UV-Vis spectrum of Prene can help us to investigatethe changes that are ereated in protein structure. Pyrene in insoluble in water and soluble in acetic acid.mixture of acetic acid and water and in organic solvents such as methanol. UV-Vis sp...

Toluene diisocyanate (TDI), a low molecular weight reactive chemical, is known to be a main cause of occupational asthma (OA) in Korea. Although it is thought that inhaled TDI may act as a hapten, the precise mechanisms of TDI-induced OA are unknown. In this study, TDI-human serum albumin (HSA) conjugates (5, 10, 20 and 30 min) were prepared in the range of 1.5 to 5.0 TDI mole/HSA mole. Specifi...

I describe a simple, rapid immunoturbidimetric assay for low concentrations of albumin in unne (2 to 260 mg/L). However, in this assay, the human serum albumin (HSA) in the standards binds nonspecifically to the polystyrene or glass tubes. This nonspecific binding cannot be prevented by adding bovine serum albumin (BSA) to standards, because the anti-HSA antibodycross reacts with BSA. Adding Tr...

Abstract Background Chemo-radiotherapy is the combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy on tumor treatment to obtain local radiosensitization cytotoxicity of control microscopic metastatic disease. Methods In this study, 7-ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN38) molecules could be successfully loaded into human serum albumin (HSA)–hyaluronic acid (HA) nanoparticles (SH/HA NPs) by hydrophobic side grou...

Human serum albumin (HSA) is a potent inhibitor of Aβ self-association and this novel, to our knowledge, function of HSA is of potential therapeutic interest for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. It is known that HSA interacts with Aβ oligomers through binding sites evenly partitioned across the three albumin domains and with comparable affinities. However, as of this writing, no informatio...