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On the Molecular Structure of Collagen

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Several polytripeptide and polyhexapeptide models of collagen have the same triple helical conformation with one NH…O interchain H bond per tripeptide. Collagen itself probably has this structure.

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  2. Departments of Biophysics and Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    D. M. SEGAL

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TRAUB, W., YONATH, A. & SEGAL, D. On the Molecular Structure of Collagen. Nature 221, 914–917 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221914a0

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