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Position of single amino acid substitutions in the collagen triple helix determines their effect on structure of collagen fibrils.
Journal of structural biology - 1 Dec 2004
Steplewski Andrzej, Ito Hidetoshi, Rucker Eileen, Brittingham Raymond J, Alabyeva Tatiana, Gandhi Milind, Ko Frank K, Birk David E, Jimenez Sergio A, Fertala Andrzej
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Collagen II fibrils are a critical structural component of the extracellular matrix of cartilage providing the tissue with its unique biomechanical properties. The self-assembly of collagen molecules into fibrils is a spontaneous process that depends on site-specific binding between specific domains belonging to interacting molecules. These interactions can be altered by mutations in the COL2A1 gene found in...
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