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Collagen

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Collagen

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The collagen sequence is basically (Gly - Pro - hydroxy-Pro)n.

Each forms an elongated helix (phi, psi = ). Three of these chains are associated to a .

Every third amino acid is

Additional Information

  1. Collagen on Wikipedia

Another Jmol tutorial

Tutorial which illustrates and describes the 3D structure of collagen

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