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Guilty by association: some collagen II mutants alter the formation of ECM as a result of atypical interaction with fibronectin.
Journal of molecular biology - 16 Sept 2005
Ito Hidetoshi, Rucker Eileen, Steplewski Andrzej, McAdams Erin, Brittingham Raymond J, Alabyeva Tatiana, Fertala Andrzej
Abstract excerpt
Among the structural components of extracellular matrices (ECM) fibrillar collagens play a critical role, and single amino acid substitutions in these proteins lead to pathological changes in tissues in which they are expressed. Employing a biologically relevant experimental model consisting of cells expressing R75C, R519C, R789C, and G853E procollagen II mutants, we found that the R789C mutation causing a...
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