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Fish skin type I collagen: wide distribution of an alpha 3 subunit in teleosts
1Laboratory of Biochemistry, Tokyo University of Fisheries, Japan.
Abstract:
1. Skin Type I collagen was isolated from 15 species of teleosts. 2. Chromatographic and electrophoretic analyses revealed that most of the teleost skin collagens possessed a unique subunit, alpha 3, which had not been detected in other vertebrate Type I collagens. 3. The skin collagen seems to exist as an alpha 1 alpha 2 alpha 3 heterotrimer in many teleosts and as an (alpha 1)2 alpha 2 heterotrimer in some teleosts.