CHANGES IN CROSSLINKING DURING AGING IN BOVINE TENDON COLLAGEN
CHANGES IN CROSSLINKING DURING AGING IN BOVINE TENDON COLLAGEN
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(79)80080-0
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
BAILEY, AJ
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作者:
LIGHT, ND;BAILEY, AJ
Earlier studies on crosslinked peptides m collagen have relied predommantly on the chromatographic preparation of peptides from cyanogen bromide digests of msoluble or borohydnde reduced collagen (revrewed [l-3]). The attendant problems of assurance of peptrde homogenerty and correct rdenttfication and analytical assessment of pepttde fragments have hampered much of the work but considerable supportwe evtdence for the crosslinked peptrdes deduced from the quarter-stagger overlap model [4] has been obtained. Although little conclusive evidence has been elucidated, the work m [5-71 has estabhshed the role of N-termmal peptides m crosshnk formation and that 111 [8] the mvolvement of C-termmal peptrdes. The existence of helical-helical intermolecular crosshnks has also been proposed. The possibility of such mteractrons in hard tissue collagen from work wrth dentme has been indicated] 9,101.These analyses are tedious and trme-consummg and generally have not permitted the comparrson of crosslinkmg m type I collagen from various sources or age groups nor has a study of the relative rmportance of N-, C-terminal and helix-helix mteractions been undertaken. We have described [1 I] a rapid method, utrhsmg sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)-polyacrylamrde gel electrophoresis, for the direct comparrson and quantitatron of crosshnking peptrdes in collagen. Usmg thus technique combined with specific labellmg of collagen peptrdes we now report significant molecular changes during the maturatron of bovme tendon collagen that could account for