Constituent Bovine serum albumin (BSA) | SSHADE

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Constituent

Name: Bovine serum albumin (BSA)

Family: molecular solid
Class: mixed molecular solid
Compound type: organic molecular solid

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass fraction: 1.0

Chemical composition

Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Mass fraction	State	Relevance	Comments
	$C$	Carbon	element				constituent element	main
	$H$	Hydrogen	element				constituent element	main
	$O$	Oxygen	element				constituent element	main
	$N$	Nitrogen	element				constituent element	main
	$S$	Sulfur	element				constituent element	main

Composition comments: BSA is a single polypeptide chain consisting of about 583 amino acid residues and no carbohydrates.

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number
	$R-C(=O)-NH-R$
	$R-NH_2$
	$R-S-H$
	$R-CH_3$
	$R-CH_2-CH_3$
	$R-OH$
	$R-CH2-OH$
	$R-C(=O)-OH$
	$R-S-R$

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$\geq C-H$
	$-O-H$
	$>N-H$
	$-S-H$
	$>C=O$
	$\geq C-O-$
	$\geq C-C \leq$
	$>C=C<$
	$\geq C-N<$
	$\eqslantgtr C-N<$
	$>C=N-$

Phase type: crystalline

Crystals and texture

Texture: macromolecular

Physical properties

Molar mass: 66430 $g/mol$

Optical properties

Color: White to Off-White