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. 1984 Sep 15;222(3):663–668. doi: 10.1042/bj2220663

Reconstituted collagen fibrils. Fibrillar and molecular stability of the collagen upon maturation in vitro.

C C Danielsen
PMCID: PMC1144228  PMID: 6435603

Abstract

During the maturation in vitro of reconstituted collagen fibrils prepared from rat skin, the mechanical and thermal stability of collagen increased and the pepsin-solubility decreased. At the same time a larger fraction of the pepsin-soluble collagen attained a lower molecular thermal stability that resulted in a biphasic thermal transition of the soluble collagen. Type-I collagen, with a similar biphasic thermal transition, was isolated from acid-insoluble rat skin collagen.

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