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  • Title: Intracellular distribution of serum albumin and its possible precursors in rat liver.
    Author: Geller DM, Judah JD, Nicholls MR.
    Journal: Biochem J; 1972 May; 127(5):865-74. PubMed ID: 5076233.
    Abstract:
    1. The fractionation of intracellular albumin labelled with radioactive l-leucine was studied in rat liver by means of isoelectric focusing. 2. Isoelectric fractionation was compared with ion-exchange chromatography for purification of radioactive intracellular albumin obtained by antibody precipitation. Similar results were obtained with both methods of separation. Purified albumin contains only a minor amount of the radioactivity. The remainder is associated with albumin-like protein(s). 3. The albumin-like protein has the properties of a precursor of plasma albumin. 4. The distribution and turnover of radioactive albumin in rough and smooth microsomal fractions and in a Golgi-rich fraction were studied. 5. It is concluded that newly synthesized albumin, as such, appears only momentarily if at all in any intracellular structure before its appearance in the plasma. 6. It is also concluded that the rate-limiting step in the secretion of plasma albumin is the conversion of precursor(s) into albumin. We can find no evidence to suggest that there is any significant transport of albumin, as such, during the course of secretion.
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