"Molecular models of biological polymers ... "Thus armed, we went to work on the collagen model in late September, 1955. We took three of the cyclically hydrogen bonded polypeptide chains ...

Figure 2: Cα traces of the T3-785 model (thick lines ... 7-fold and 10-fold symmetric triple helices are subtle, the collagen molecule is a long and repetitive structure in which small local ...

The resulting model revealed a deviation from ... "The absence of the superhelical twist allows for molecular interactions not seen before in collagen," said Yu, a former graduate student of ...

Researchers from the University of Bayreuth have discovered the mechanism by which collagen, the most common protein in the ...