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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2015 Jul 26;51:194–204. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2015.07.015

Table 1.

Summary Collagen Segments Characteristics

Name Structure Atoms Initial length of segment (nm) Equilibrated length of segment (nm) Water box size (nm)
1X (GPO)21a 75000 19.4 17.24 25 × 7 × 7
2X (GPO)41 210000 37.6 35.98 51 × 7 × 7
4X (GPO)85 455000 74.2 70.66 108 × 7 × 7
16X (GPO)338 1267000 289.3 257.68 350 × 7 × 7
a

denotes glycine-proline-hydroxyproline (GPO)