... School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK2 Delta Biotechnology Ltd, Nottingham, UKHuman albumin (66.5 kDa), a single-chain of 585amino acids, is the most abundant protein in blood ... pairs. Interestingly however, the disulfidebonding pattern for the first 50 residues in domain Idiffers from that of the other two domains. The firsttwo helices in the albumin sequence in domain ... reaction of albumin with cystine, leading to disulfide formation at Cys34, is of physiologicalimportance in blood. We monitored the reaction of wild-type rHA with a 2.5-fold molar excess of l-cystineby...