Biological Assembly 1  

Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Monomer - A1 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 66.57 kDa 
• Atom Count: 4,616 
• Modelled Residue Count: 580 
• Deposited Residue Count: 585 
• Unique protein chains: 1

 1UOR

X-RAY STUDY OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN. PHASES DETERMINED BY MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT METHOD, USING LOW RESOLUTION STRUCTURE MODEL OF TETRAGONAL FORM OF HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN

• PDB DOI:  https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1UOR/pdb

• Classification: METAL BINDING PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Homo sapiens
• Expression System: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 1998-03-10 Released: 1998-05-27 
• Deposition Author(s): Carter, D.C., Ho, J.X.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.80 Å
• R-Value Work: 0.231 
• R-Value Observed: 0.231 

Literature

Atomic structure and chemistry of human serum albumin.

He, X.M., Carter, D.C.

(1992) Nature 358: 209-215

• PubMed: 1630489 
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/358209a0
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  1UOR


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

The three-dimensional structure of human serum albumin has been determined crystallographically to a resolution of 2.8 A. It comprises three homologous domains that assemble to form a heart-shaped molecule. Each domain is a product of two subdomains that possess common structural motifs. The principal regions of ligand binding to human serum albumin are located in hydrophobic cavities in subdomains IIA and IIIA, which exhibit similar chemistry. The structure explains numerous physical phenomena and should provide insight into future pharmacokinetic and genetically engineered therapeutic applications of serum albumin.

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Related Citations: 

• Preliminary Crystallographic Studies of Four Crystal Forms of Serum Albumin
  Carter, D.C., Chang, B., Ho, J.X., Keeling, K., Krishnasami, Z.
  (1994) Eur J Biochem 226: 1049

• Structure of Human Serum Albumin
  Carter, D.C., He, X.M.
  (1990) Science 249: 302

• Three-Dimensional Structure of Human Serum Albumin
  Carter, D.C., He, X.M., Munson, S.H., Twigg, P.D., Gernert, K.M., Broom, M.B., Miller, T.Y.
  (1989) Science 244: 1195

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Space Science Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35812.

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
SERUM ALBUMIN	A	585	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: ALB, GIG20, GIG42, PRO0903, PRO1708, PRO2044, PRO2619, PRO2675, UNQ696/PRO1341
UniProt & NIH Common Fund Data Resources
Find proteins for P02768 (Homo sapiens) Explore P02768  Go to UniProtKB:  P02768
PHAROS:  P02768

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.80 Å
• R-Value Work: 0.231 
• R-Value Observed: 0.231 
• Space Group: P 1 2₁ 1

Unit Cell:

Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 58.86	α = 90
b = 88.28	β = 101.85
c = 60.68	γ = 90

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
R-AXIS	data collection
R-AXIS	data reduction
X-PLOR	model building
X-PLOR	refinement
R-AXIS	data scaling
X-PLOR	phasing

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Released Date: 1998-05-27 
Deposition Author(s): Carter, D.C., Ho, J.X.

Revision History  

• Version 1.0: 1998-05-27
  Type: Initial release
  
• Version 1.1: 2008-03-24
  Changes: Version format compliance
• Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
  Changes: Version format compliance