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Lateral packing of mineral crystals in bone collagen fibrils.


ABSTRACT: Combined small-angle x-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy studies of intramuscular fish bone (shad and herring) indicate that the lateral packing of nanoscale calcium-phosphate crystals in collagen fibrils can be represented by irregular stacks of platelet-shaped crystals, intercalated with organic layers of collagen molecules. The scattering intensity distribution in this system can be described by a modified Zernike-Prins model, taking preferred orientation effects into account. Using the model, the diffuse fan-shaped small-angle x-ray scattering intensity profile, dominating the equatorial region of the scattering pattern, could be quantitatively analyzed as a function of the degree of mineralization. The mineral platelets were found to be very thin (1.5 nm approximately 2.0 nm), having a narrow thickness distribution. The thickness of the organic layers between adjacent mineral platelets within a stack is more broadly distributed with the average value varying from 6 nm to 10 nm, depending on the extent of mineralization. The two-dimensional analytical scheme also leads to quantitative information about the preferred orientation of mineral stacks and the average height of crystals along the crystallographic c axis.

SUBMITTER: Burger C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2483764 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lateral packing of mineral crystals in bone collagen fibrils.

Burger Christian C   Zhou Hong-Wen HW   Wang Hao H   Sics Igors I   Hsiao Benjamin S BS   Chu Benjamin B   Graham Lila L   Glimcher Melvin J MJ  

Biophysical journal 20080321 4


Combined small-angle x-ray scattering and transmission electron microscopy studies of intramuscular fish bone (shad and herring) indicate that the lateral packing of nanoscale calcium-phosphate crystals in collagen fibrils can be represented by irregular stacks of platelet-shaped crystals, intercalated with organic layers of collagen molecules. The scattering intensity distribution in this system can be described by a modified Zernike-Prins model, taking preferred orientation effects into accoun  ...[more]

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