Our recent study reported that conformation change of granule-associated Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) may influence the role of the protein controlling colloid deposition in porous media (Flynn et al., 2012). The present study conceptualized the observed phenomena with an ellipsoid morphology model, describing BSA as an ellipsoid taking a side-on or end-on AC C EP TE D M AN U SC R IP T ACCEPTED M...

Bovine serum albumin (BSA) is commonly used in adipocyte experiments as a binding protein for fat-soluble substances. Therefore, it is of interest to investigate whether BSA per se is influencing the functioning of human adipocytes in vitro. In the present study, we investigated the potential of BSA to affect the proliferation and differentiation capacity of human preadipocytes. BSA was found t...

Whiteside, Roberta E. (Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.), and Edgar E. Baker. Interaction of Vi antigen with proteins. J. Bacteriol. 92:1597-1603. 1966.-Purified Vi antigen (Vi) mixed in equal amounts with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or human gamma globulin (HGG) at pH values above 4.7 formed a complex which was not precipitated by trichloroacetic acid or tungstic acid. At pH ...

Acidification of the internal poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microenvironment is considered one of the major protein stresses during controlled release from such delivery systems. A model protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA), was incubated at 37 degrees C for 28 days to simulate the environment within the aqueous pores of PLGA during the release phase and to determine how acidic microclimate ...

To elucidate the involvement of cyclooxygenase (COX) in degradation of aggregated protein in diabetic glomeruli, we used streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mice and aggregated bovine serum albumin (a-BSA) as a model protein. There was a higher deposition of a-BSA in diabetic glomeruli compared to normal glomeruli 18 h after a-BSA injection at 4 and 8 weeks after STZ. Degradation of a-BSA was...

The parameters that affect the interaction of ligands with a fucose-binding lectin from rat liver have been examined. 125I-Fucosyl-bovine serum albumin (Fuc-BSA) containing 50 residues of fucose/molecule was used as the standard ligand. At low initial concentrations of ligand (10 ng/ml) and lectin (140 ng/ml), the reaction reaches equilibrium at pH 7.8, 23 degrees C, within 40 min. The binding ...

Heats of adsorption of BSA onto polystyrene and polycarbonate were determined microcalorimetrically. The polymers were coated onto 50 nm alumina particles which were immersed in buffer for the measurements. Experimental variations to isolate the various component reactions of the integral heats included adsorption of native and denatured BSA from solution, adsorption onto substrates precoated w...

AIM The aim of this study is to test the potency of bovine serum albumin (BSA) conjugated ampicillin (AMP) and enrofloxacin (ENR) antigens in eliciting an immune response in rats using indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (icELISA). MATERIALS AND METHODS AMP and ENR antibiotics were conjugated with BSA by carbodiimide reaction using 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodii...