Description
Introduction: Albumin is a soluble, monomeric protein of molecular weight 65,000, which comprises about one-half of the blood serum protein. The albumin gene is 16,961 nucleotides long from the putative 'cap' site to the first poly(A) addition site.[1] It 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. Albumin functions primarily as a carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and plays a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume