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Single molecule effects of osteogenesis imperfecta mutations in tropocollagen protein domains.
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society - 1 Jan 2009
Gautieri Alfonso, Vesentini Simone, Redaelli Alberto, Buehler Markus J
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disease characterized by fragile bones, skeletal deformities and, in severe cases, prenatal death that affects more than 1 in 10,000 individuals. Here we show by full atomistic simulation in explicit solvent that OI mutations have a significant influence on the mechanical properties of single tropocollagen molecules, and that the severity of different forms of OI is...
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