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Imaging Denatured Collagen Strands In vivo and Ex vivo via Photo-triggered Hybridization of Caged Collagen Mimetic Peptides
Published on: January 31, 2014
[Reactions between protease inhibitors in blood plasma and collagen]
Abstract:
The interaction of three macroglobulins and three serpines, as well as inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor (ITI) with alpha 1- and alpha 2-chains of collagen I which were immobilized on nitrocellulose. All seven proteinase inhibitors were shown to have a certain affinity for collagen. The binding of alpha 2-macroglobulin and gestation-associated protein A with collagen chains is largely determined by the conformational state of these macrophages. alpha 2-Antiplasmin, proteinase alpha 1-inhibitor, antithrombin III and ITI with collagen yield complexes that are resistant to urea, sodium dodecylsulfate, and Trilon B.
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