Definition of Tropocollagen

1. Noun. (biochemistry) A component of fibres of collagen in which three polypeptide chains are coiled around each other ¹

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Definition of Tropocollagen

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tropocollagen

1. Subunit from which collagen fibrils self assemble: generated from procollagen by proteolytic cleavage of the extension peptides. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropocollagen

tropine
tropine dehydrogenase
tropine mandelate
tropine tropate
tropines
troping
tropinone
tropinone reductase
tropins
tropism
tropisms
tropist
tropistic
tropists
tropo-
tropocollagen (current term)
tropocollagens
tropoelastin
tropologic
tropological
tropologically
tropologies
tropologize
tropologized
tropologizes
tropologizing
tropology
tropolone
tropolones
tropometer

Literary usage of Tropocollagen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Never-ceasing Search by Francis Otto Schmitt (1990)
"3000 A long) be called tropocollagen (TC) because it is the structure that can "turn into" ("tropos") the pattern characteristic of native collagen fibers. ..."

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