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SUBMITTER: Xu F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5643560 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Fei F Zheng Hongning H Clauvelin Nicolas N Lu Xiang-Jun XJ Olson Wilma K WK Nanda Vikas V
Scientific reports 20171016 1
Multi-stranded helices are widespread in nature. The interplay of polymeric properties with biological function is seldom discussed. This study probes analogies between structural and mechanical properties of collagen and DNA. We modeled collagen with Eulerian rotational and translational parameters of adjacent rungs in the triple-helix ladder and developed statistical potentials by extracting the dispersion of the parameters from a database of atomic-resolution structures. The resulting elastic ...[more]