FIGURE 11.
Assembly of heterogeneous collagen VI microfibrils. Schematic drawing of the assembly of the heterogeneous microfibrils. The composition of the schematically drawn microfibrils below reflects the composition of the mixed microfibrils containing the α3 and the α6 chain shown in Fig. 8. Collagenous domain, black; non-collagenous regions of the α3 chain, red; non-collagenous regions of the α4, α5, and α6 chains, blue.