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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ma J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3556744 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20081201 48
Collagen, consisting of glycine, proline, and hydroxyproline, is a fibrous protein that can form a rope-like left-hand triple helix structure. It is demonstrated here that the collagen gels prepared from polymerization in the magnetic field can provide weak alignment for protein. The alignment order induced by collagen gels is quite small when compared to other alignment media, but the magnitude of the dipolar couplings can be easily scaled up by increasing the initial concentration of collagen. ...[more]