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tropocollagen

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tropocollagen [¦träp·ō′kal·ə·jən]
(biochemistry)
The fundamental units of collagen fibrils.


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The pro-collagen is then secreted into the space around the cell, where other peptides become attached to it and tropocollagen is formed.
The basic structural unit is called tropocollagen, which has a molecular weight of [approximately]300,000 and consists of three polypeptide chains of the same size (1000 amino acid residues).
 
 
 
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