Structure, physiology, and biochemistry of collagens

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 802, Issue , 2014, Pages 5-29

  Mienaltowski, Michael J ^a   Birk, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beaded filament forming collagen; Collagens I XXVIII; Crosslinking; Fibril associated collagens with interrupted triple helices (FACIT); Fibril forming collagens; Hierarchical structure of tendon; Network forming collagens; Procollagens; Supramolecular structures of collagens; Triple helix

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADIPONECTIN; AMINO ACID; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 13; COLLAGEN TYPE 15; COLLAGEN TYPE 16; COLLAGEN TYPE 17; COLLAGEN TYPE 18; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 6; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; COLLAGEN TYPE 8; COLLECTIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROCOLLAGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGAMENT DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TENDON DISEASE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRIPLE HELIX; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; FIBRILLOGENESIS; LIGAMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TENDON;

EID: 84934441607     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-7-7893-1_2     Document Type: Article

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