The collagen fibril: the almost crystalline structure. Academic Article

abstract

• The structure of collagen fibrils has intrigued many investigators over the years. A crystal structure has been available for some time, but the crystal structure has been difficult to reconcile with other observations about collagen fibrils such as their roundness and their growth from paraboloidal tips. Several alternative models recently have been suggested, but none of them fully account for all the data. One recent approach to solving the fibrillar structure is to define specific binding sites on the collagen monomer that direct self-assembly of monomers into fibrils.

authors

• Prockop, Darwin

published proceedings

• J Struct Biol

altmetric score

• 3.5

author list (cited authors)

• Prockop, D. J., & Fertala, A.

citation count

• 148

complete list of authors

• Prockop, DJ||Fertala, A

publication date

• January 1998

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Structural Biology  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Binding Sites
• Collagen
• Computer Simulation
• Crystallography, X-Ray
• Humans
• Protein Conformation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1006/jsbi.1998.3976

start page

• 111

end page

• 118

volume

• 122

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jsbi.1998.3976