Occurrence of fibrillar collagen with structure of (α1)2 α2 in the test of sea urchin Asthenosoma ijimai

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-68

  Omura, Yuji ^a,b   Urano, Naoto ^a   Kimura, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthenosoma ijimai; collagen; heterotrimeric collagen; sea urchin; solubilization with pepsin; subunit composition; test; type I like collagen

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; MATRIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEA URCHIN; SOLUBILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; ASTHENOSOMA; ASTHENOSOMA IJIMAI; ECHINOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029804419     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(96)00085-5     Document Type: Article

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