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Streptococcal Scl1 and Scl2 proteins form collagen-like triple helices.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Jul 2002
Xu Yi, Keene Douglas R, Bujnicki Janusz M, Höök Magnus, Lukomski Slawomir
Abstract excerpt
The collagens are a family of animal proteins containing segments of repeated Gly-Xaa-Yaa (GXY) motifs that form a characteristic triple-helical structure. Genes encoding proteins with repeated GXY motifs have also been reported in bacteria and phages; however, it is unclear whether these prokaryotic proteins can form a collagen-like triple-helical structure. Here we used two recently identified streptococcal...
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