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Softenin, a Novel Protein That Softens the Connective Tissue of Sea Cucumbers through Inhibiting Interaction between Collagen Fibrils

The dermis in the holothurian body wall is a typical catch connective tissue or mutable collagenous tissue that shows rapid changes in stiffness. Some chemical factors that change the stiffness of the tissue were found in previous studies, but the molecular mechanisms of the changes are not yet full...

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Autores principales: Takehana, Yasuhiro, Yamada, Akira, Tamori, Masaki, Motokawa, Tatsuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085644