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Designing an extracellular matrix protein with enhanced mechanical stability.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Jun 2007
Ng Sean P, Billings Kate S, Ohashi Tomoo, Allen Mark D, Best Robert B, Randles Lucy G, Erickson Harold P, Clarke Jane
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The extracellular matrix proteins tenascin and fibronectin experience significant mechanical forces in vivo. Both contain a number of tandem repeating homologous fibronectin type III (fnIII) domains, and atomic force microscopy experiments have demonstrated that the mechanical strength of these d...
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