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Pharmaceutical strategies utilizing recombinant human serum albumin.
Pharmaceutical research - 1 May 2002
Chuang Victor Tuan Giam, Kragh-Hansen Ulrich, Otagiri Masaki
Abstract excerpt
Gene manipulation techniques open up the possibility of making recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA) or mutants with desirable therapeutic properties and for protein fusion products. rHSA can serve as a carrier in synthetic heme protein, thus reversibly carrying oxygen. Myristoylation of insulin results in a prolonged half-life because of self aggregation and increased albumin binding. Preferential albumin...
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