prealbuminn.
/ˌpriːˈalbjᵿmᵻn/, U.S. /ˌpriælˈbjum(ə)n/ Biochemistry.
Any plasma protein with an electrophoretic mobility which (in some techniques of electrophoresis) is slightly greater than that of albumin; spec. a tetramer in human blood which binds thyroxine and the retinol-binding protein.
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1953 Science 27 Nov. 653/2 In the seventh patient no pre-albumin peak was observed.
1955 O. Smithies in Biochem. Jrnl. 61 634/2 The two components migrating more rapidly than the broad albumen zone are referred to as the pre-albumins1 and 2 (1 indicating the faster-moving component).
1975 F. W. Putnam Plasma Proteins (ed. 2) I. ii. 72 Prealbumins have been described in other species such as the mouse; the molecular weight is only about 20,000 and the function is unknown.
1991 D. J. Weatherall New Genetics & Clin. Pract. (ed. 3) vi. 162 The rare disorder familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy..results from a single amino acid substitution in a protein called transthyretin, formerly known as pre-albumin.
1998 Functional Ecol. 12 751/1 Because of difficulties of separating the prealbumin fraction from albumin, summed concentrations for both are reported.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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