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    • The Madras Group and the structure of collagen

      V Sasisekharan N Yathindra

      Trends In Collagen Volume 111 Issue 1 February 1999 pp 5-12

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    • Keywords

       

      Collagen; Madras Group; coiled-coil triple helex

    • Abstract

       

      The genesis of the collagen structure proposed by the Madras Group is briefly outlined. Recent crystal structure data on collagen-like peptides vindicate (i) the original proposal of Ramachandran and Kartha, namely, that the structure of collagen is a triple helical coiled-coil one, and (ii) the visualisation of the maximisation of hydrogen bonds directly or indirectly with water molecules, including Ca-H…O hydrogen bonds.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      V Sasisekharan1 N Yathindra2

      1. P O Box 425276, Cambridge, MA - 02142, USA
      2. Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai - 600 025, India

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      Published
      February 1999

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