Albumins
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You may be looking for albumen, or egg white.
Albumin (Latin: albus, white) refers generally to any protein with water solubility, which is moderately soluble in concentrated salt solutions, and experiences heat coagulation (protein denaturation). Substances containing albumin, such as egg white, are called albuminoids. The most wellknown types of albumin is the serum albumin in the blood, but there is also the storage protein ovalbumin in egg white, and different storage albumins in the seeds of some plants. Serum albumin is the most abundant blood plasma protein and is produced in the liver and forms a large proportion of all plasma protein. The human version is human serum albumin, and it normally constitutes about 60% of human plasma protein; all other proteins present in blood plasma are referred to collectively as globulins. They function as transport proteins for several steroid hormones and for fatty acids.
