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Structural insight for chain selection and stagger control in collagen

Collagen plays a fundamental role in all known metazoans. In collagens three polypeptides form a unique triple-helical structure with a one-residue stagger to fit every third glycine residue in the inner core without disturbing the poly-proline type II helical conformation of each chain. There are h...

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Autores principales: Boudko, Sergei P., Bächinger, Hans Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5126661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27897211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep37831