M1: Specific Proteins II Flashcards
Prealbumin: other name
Thyroxine-Binding Pre Albumin (TBPA) or Transthyretin (TTR)
Fraction that migrates in a position faster than albumin toward the anode. Tetrametric structure; total MW 62,000 Da; one of the smaller serum proteins.
Prealbumin
Prealbumin: only a small fraction of thyroxine is bound to
TBPA
Prealbumin: has a 100 fold greater affinity for thyroxine
Thyroxine binding globulin
Prealbumin: Significant role in _________ metabolism, by complexing with the RBP.
Vit. A
Prealbumin: Small protein (182AAs) Rapidly removed from the circulation by filtration through the kidney if it were not held in the plasma by the larger protein prealbumin.
Retinol Binding Protein
Prealbumin: The complex of RBP and transthyretin appears to be assembled in the _______ of hepatocytes.
ER
Prealbumin: is rich in
Tryptophan
Prealbumin: has _________ conformation.
B-pleated sheet
Prealbumin: portion of prealbumin is the source of the ___________ component in type I Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy.
B-fibrillar amyloid
Prealbumin: A mutation that produces a protein susceptible to proteolytic cleavage creating B structured fragments that are the building blocks of amyloid in nerve fibers.
Type I Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy
Prealbumin: has a relatively _____ halflife. (Roughly ___ days)
Short. 2.
Prealbumin: Synthetic rate is sensitive to intake of adequate _______ and to alterations in _______ function.
Nutrition. Hepatic.
Prealbumin: Prealbumin secretions in serum ________ in response to alterations in sythetic rate than to those of other proteins.
Fluctuate
Prealbumin: In hemodialysis patients, low levels of prealbumin were associated with greater risk of ________ & ________ for infection thus, prealbumin measurements can become an important factor for planning patient management.
Mortality. Hospitalization.
Prealbumin: Electrophoresis of _____ is usually requested for detection of oligoclonal bands of immunoglobulin.
CSF
Prealbumin: true prealbumin is generally low levels of detection by serum electrophoresis, it is best quantified by immunologic measurements such as _________.
Nephelometry
Prealbumin: frequently appears in the prealbumin position of serum from patients who have had heparin therapy
Protein band
Prealbumin: activates and releases lipoprotein lipase activity, which attacks triglycerides in lipoprotein fractions their electrophoretic migration anodally.
Heparin
Prealbumin: reveals apolipoproteins in the prealbumin position but no _______ fraction. This is an in vivo effect that does not occur if heparin is added to samples already collected.
Protein stains. B-lipoprotein functions.
The single and most abundant protein in normal plasma usually constituting up to 2/3 of total plasma protein. Depression and losses result in serious imbalance of intravascular oncotic pressure. This loss is manifested clinically by development of _________.
Albumin. Peripheral edema.
Congenital absence of albumin generally does not lead to such problems, presumably because of lifelong compensatory mechanisms that control hydrostatic pressures.
Analbuminemia
Also serves as a mobile repository of AAs for incorporation into other proteins. General transport or carrier protein. Many organic & inorganic ligands are complexed with different regions of the albumin molecule in covalent or dissociable binding.
Albumin
Albumin: consists of 585 AAs arranged in _________ held together by __________ between cysteine residues.
Nine loops. Disulfide bonds.
Albumin: primary sequence of albumin contains three major regions with ______________ each, suggesting that it arose from gene duplication of some ancestral gene in a tandem rearrangement process. It is also interesting to note that ________ has regions of homology with serum albumin, which may indicate a common ancestral gene origin for these two proteins.
Three peptide loops. a-fetoprotein.
Albumin: In addition to genetic abnormality of analbuminemia, many hereditary variants of albumin differ from the most common allotype, _______, by single amino acid substitution. These variants can be rapid or slow migrating compared with Alb A, leading to two distinct albumin peaks (_______) in the heterozygous state.
Albumin A. Bisalbuminemia.
Albumin: Up to ____ of albumin circulating in normal persons become glycosylated nonenzymatically, whereas up to _____ becomes glycosylated during hyperglycemia in analogy with glycosylated hgb.
8%. 25%.
Albumin: halflife of circulating albumin is about _________, so that measurements of the glycosylated form may be useful in monitoring diabetic control during an interval of few weeks.
17 days
Albumin: can be very useful for assessing diabetic control in patients with hemolytic anemias whose red cell survival is greatly shortened and in whom measurement of glycosylated hgb is unreliable.
Fructosamine
Albumin: Glycosylated albumin requirements may not be reliable for assessing diabetic control in patients with ____________, in which albumin clearance is accelerated. Unlike patients under hemodialysis.
Protein losing neuropathy
Albumin: has an additional hexapeptide at its amino-terminal end.
Proalbumin
Albumin: On storage for many days, albumin forms covalently linked dimers through __________, resulting occasionally in an extra band of albumin on electrophoresis.
Free cysteines
Albumin: Elevations of serum albumin are infrequent, although they do occur in ________ as the plasma water phase shrinks. It should increase upon fluid therapy.
Dehydration
Albumin: Elevation of serum albumin may also occur artifactually as the result of prolonged application of ________ for venipuncture. Increase hemodynamic pressure from venous backup forces water and small solutes out of the intravascular space, thereby concentrating cellular elements, micellar forms of lipoproteins, and proteins such as albumin.
Torniquet
Albumin: sensitive but nonspecific reduction of albumin in so many different condition has led to its being termed a
Negative acute phase reactants
Albumin: Measurements of albumin concentrations are vital to the understanding and interpretation of _______ & _______ levels because these ions are bound to albumin.
Calcium & Magnesium
Albumin: shows a major polyclonal increase of immunoglobulins if the y fraction and nephrotic syndrome shows high levels of ________.
Cirrhosis. A2 macroglobulin.
Albumin: The presence of albumin in the urine is generally considered abnormal even in trace amounts, although some healthy individual exhibit _________ following intense exercise.
Albuminuria
Albumin: can be assessed by the quantitative measurement of albuminuria, as it tend to appear ahead of other serum proteins in urine during the course of renal glomerular damage.
Diabetic neuropathy
Albumin: is now considered a standard of care for management of DM and the early detection of diabetic complication.
Immunologic measurement of microalbumin
Albumin: the nephrotic syndrome which is marked by extensive _________, is often due to diabetic neuropathy or one of several other primary glomerular diseases.
Hypoalbuminemia
Most abundant a-1-globulin, is the most important protease inhibitor in plasma. Increased in neonatal hepatitis. One of the serum glycoproteins that rise in response to acute inflammation.
A-1-Antitrypsin
A-1-Antitrypsin coded by _______ on the chromosome ___.
SERPINA1. 14.
A-1-Antitrypsin: majority are __ alele or phenotype ___.
M. MM.
A-1-Antitrypsin: while some are heterozygous with M & Pi of other _____________ system.
Protease inhibitor
A-1-Antitrypsin: 2% carry Piz alele, with phenotype MZ with reduced ___.
AAT
A-1-Antitrypsin: are susceptible for pulmonary or hepatic disease
ZZ homozygous
A-1-Antitrypsin: _____ variant of allele are moderately reduced AAT expression but without any disease associated
Pis
A-1-Antitrypsin: suspected of increased lung and hepatic diseases.
SS & SZ phenotype
A-1-Antitrypsin: can be recognized by being phenotyped by _____________ and genotype with molecular assay.
Isoelectric electrophoresis