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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2004 Jun 22;43(24):7653–7662. doi: 10.1021/bi049380h

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Distribution of different preCOLs along a byssal thread. Gradients of preCOL-D (D) and preCOL-P (P) in the thread (top) indicate that preCOL-D predominates in the distal portion, whereas preCOL-P predominates in the proximal portion. PreCOL-NG is uniformly present all along the thread. Possible relationship between preCols in the transitional region according to two assembly models A and B (bottom) is represent by PreCol-D (black), preCol-NG (gray), and preCol-P (white). The elastic modulus calculated according to the Voigt equation appears below each increment.