... Sonaka1, Eiichiro Suzuki2 and Kazuo Hirayama21 Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories, Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Kawasaki, Japan2 Institute of Life Science, Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Kawasaki, JapanHuman serum ... albumin A slight structural change impairs its ligand-binding and antioxidantfunctionsAsami Kawakami1,*, Kazuyuki Kubota2,*, Naoyuki Yamada2, Uno Tagami2, Kenji Takehana1,Ichiro Sonaka1, ... investigated the relative binding proper-ties of these two types of HSA. We investigated the binding of L(small)-Trp as an endogenous ligandwhich binds to site II, and of cefazolin (site I- ligand)and...