The Contribution of Interchain Salt Bridges to Triple-Helical Stability in Collagen

Studies on collagen and collagen-like peptides suggest that triple-helical stability can vary along the amino acid chain. In this regard, it has been shown that lysine residues in the Y position and acidic residues in the X' position of (GPO)[subscript 3]GXYGX'Y'(GPO)[subscript 3] pep...

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Main Authors: Gurry, Thomas (Author), Nerenberg, Paul S. (Contributor), Stultz, Collin M. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2012-10-02T12:32:42Z.
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