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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Xu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7545172 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20201008 1
The mineralized collagen fibril is the basic building block of bone, and is commonly pictured as a parallel array of ultrathin carbonated hydroxyapatite (HAp) platelets distributed throughout the collagen. This orientation is often attributed to an epitaxial relationship between the HAp and collagen molecules inside 2D voids within the fibril. Although recent studies have questioned this model, the structural relationship between the collagen matrix and HAp, and the mechanisms by which collagen ...[more]