Afamin

Taxonomy

• Homo sapiens (Human)

Protein

• Afamin / Homo sapiens    P43652

Source

• Blood Serum (UBERON_0001977)  
• Mammary Gland (UBERON_0001911)  
• Milk (UBERON_0001913)  
• Umbilical Vein (UBERON_0002066)   Endothelial Cell of Umbilical Vein (CL_0002618)  
• Urine (UBERON_0001088)  
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Secretion (GO_0033326)  

Reported structure

• N-Linked / Complex / Structure 2011
• N-Linked / Complex / Gal(?1-?)GlcNAc(?1-?)Man(a1-3)[Gal(?1-?)GlcNAc(?1-?)Man(a1-6)]Man(b1-4)GlcNAc(b1-4)GlcNAc
• N-Linked / Complex / Structure 3041
• N-Linked / Complex / Structure 644
• N-Linked / Complex / NeuAc(?2-?)Gal(?1-?)GlcNAc(?1-?)Man(a1-3)[NeuAc(?2-?)Gal(?1-?)GlcNAc(?1-?)Man(a1-6)]Man(b1-4)GlcNAc(b1-4)GlcNAc

Composition

• Hex:4 HexNAc:3 dHex:1 NeuAc:1 (avg mass : 1713.5708 )
• Hex:4 HexNAc:4 (avg mass : 1479.3649 )
• Hex:4 HexNAc:6 dHex:2 (avg mass : 2178.0409 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:4 (avg mass : 1641.5073 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:4 NeuAc:1 (avg mass : 1932.7652 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:4 NeuAc:2 (avg mass : 2224.0231 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:4 dHex:1 (avg mass : 1787.6503 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:4 dHex:1 NeuAc:2 (avg mass : 2370.1661 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:4 dHex:2 NeuAc:1 (avg mass : 2225.0512 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:4 dHex:2 NeuAc:2 (avg mass : 2516.3091 )
• Hex:5 HexNAc:6 dHex:1 (avg mass : 2194.0403 )
• Hex:6 HexNAc:4 dHex:1 NeuAc:1 (avg mass : 2241.0506 )
• Hex:6 HexNAc:5 (avg mass : 2006.8447 )
• Hex:6 HexNAc:5 NeuAc:3 (avg mass : 2880.6184 )
• Hex:6 HexNAc:5 dHex:1 NeuAc:3 (avg mass : 3026.7614 )
• Hex:6 HexNAc:6 dHex:1 NeuAc:2 (avg mass : 2938.6985 )
• Hex:6 HexNAc:6 dHex:3 NeuAc:2 (avg mass : 3230.9845 )
• Hex:8 HexNAc:2 (avg mass : 1721.5445 )
• Hex:12 HexNAc:2 (avg mass : 2370.1141 )

Disease

• Cancer, breast (DOID:1612)
• Prostate cancer (DOID:10283)

Reference

• Community Evaluation of Glycoproteomics Informatics Solutions Reveals High-Performance Search Strategies for Glycopeptide Analysis (2021 - Rebeca Kawahara, Kathirvel Alagesan, Marshall Bern, Meng Bo, Weiqian Cao, Robert J Chalkley, Kai Cheng, Matthew S. Choo, Nathan Edwards, Radoslav Goldman, Marcus Hoffmann, Yingwei Hu, Yifan Huang, Jin Young Kim, Doron Kletter, Benoit Liquet-Weiland, Mingqi Liu, Yehia Mechref, Sriram Neelamegham, Terry Nguyen-Khuong, Jonas Nilsson, Adam Pap, Gun Wook Park, Benjamin L. Parker, Cassandra L. Pegg, Josef M. Penninger, Toan K. Phung, Markus Pioch, Erdmann Rapp, Enes Sakalli, Miloslav Sanda, Benjamin L. Schulz, Nichollas Scott, Georgy Sofronov, Johannes Stadlmann, Sergey Vakhrushev, Christina Woo, Hung-Yi Wu, Pengyuan Yang, Wantao Ying, Zhang Yong, Hui Zhang, Jingfu Zhao, Joseph Zaia, Stuart M. Haslam, Giuseppe Palmisano, Jong Shin Yoo, Goran Larson, Kai-Hooi Khoo, Katalin F. Medzihradszky, Daniel Kolarich, Nicolle H. Packer, and Morten Thaysen-Andersen) / Status : Reviewed
• Quantitative Longitudinal Inventory of the N-Glycoproteome of Human Milk from a Single Donor Reveals the Highly Variable Repertoire and Dynamic Site-Specific Changes (2020 - Jing Zhu, Yu-Hsien Lin, Kelly A Dingess, Marko Mank, Bernd Stahl, Albert J R Heck) / Status : Reviewed
• Site-Specific Profiling of Serum Glycoproteins Using N-Linked Glycan and Glycosite Analysis Revealing Atypical N-Glycosylation Sites on Albumin and α-1B-Glycoprotein (2018 - Shisheng Sun, Yingwei Hu, Li Jia, Shadi Toghi Eshghi, Yang Liu, Punit Shah, Hui Zhang) / Status : Unreviewed
• Reanalysis of global proteomic and phosphoproteomic data identified a large number of glycopeptides (2018 - Yingwei Hu, Punit Shah, David J. Clark, Minghui Ao, Hui Zhang) / Status : Unreviewed
• Large-scale intact glycopeptide identification by Mascot database search (2018 - Ravi Chand Bollineni, Christian Jeffrey Koehler, Randi Elin Gislefoss, Jan Haug Anonsen, Bernd Thiede) / Status : Unreviewed
• Distinct urinary glycoprotein signatures in prostate cancer patients (2018 - Rebeca Kawahara, Fabio Ortega, Livia Rosa-Fernandes, Vanessa Guimarães, Daniel Quina, Willian Nahas, Veit Schwämmle, Miguel Srougi, Katia R.M. Leite, Morten Thaysen-Andersen, Martin R. Larsen and Giuseppe Palmisano) / Status : Unreviewed
• Comparison of sialylated N-glycopeptide levels in serum of pancreatic cancer patients, acute pancreatitis patients, and healthy controls (2014 - Kontro H, Joenväärä S, Haglund C, Renkonen R) / Status : Reviewed
• Glycoproteomic analysis of the secretome of human endothelial cells (2013 - Yin X, Bern M, Xing Q, Ho J, Viner R, Mayr M.) / Status : Reviewed
• Enrichment of glycopeptides for glycan structure and attachment site identification (2009 - Nilsson J, Rüetschi U, Halim A, Hesse C, Carlsohn E, Brinkmalm G, Larson G.) / Status : Reviewed

Reported glycosite

• Afamin / Homo sapiens
  •        Asn-33
  •        Asn-109
  •        Asn-338
  •        Asn-383
  •        Asn-402
  •        Asn-488

Mass spectrometry observed peptide

• NFNSTQKFIED (11aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-33     Afamin / Homo sapiens
• RDIENFNSTQKF (12aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-33     Afamin / Homo sapiens
• DIENFNSTQK (10aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-33     Afamin / Homo sapiens
• HNFSHCCSK (9aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-109     Afamin / Homo sapiens
• FTDSENVCQER (11aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-338     Afamin / Homo sapiens
• YAEDKFNETTEK (12aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-402     Afamin / Homo sapiens
• FNETTEK (7aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-402     Afamin / Homo sapiens
• MVTAFTTCCTLSEEFACVDNLADLVFGELCGVNENR (36aa)
  •    P43652    Asn-488     Afamin / Homo sapiens