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SUBMITTER: Bretaud S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7852327 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bretaud Sandrine S Guillon Emilie E Karppinen Sanna-Maria SM Pihlajaniemi Taina T Ruggiero Florence F
Matrix biology plus 20200115
Type XV collagen is a non-fibrillar collagen that is associated with basement membranes and belongs to the multiplexin subset of the collagen superfamily. Collagen XV was initially studied because of its sequence homology with collagen XVIII/endostatin whose anti-angiogenic and anti-tumorigenic properties were subjects of wide interest in the past years. But during the last fifteen years, collagen XV has gained growing attention with increasing number of studies that have attributed new function ...[more]