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Mechanochemical melting of collagen fibers. III. Cooperativity induced by crosslinking

✍ Scribed by J. Yonath


Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1969
Tongue
English
Weight
347 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3525

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✦ Synopsis


Mechanical melting experiments performed on collagen fibers were used to study the effect of crosslinking on contraction kinetics. With the aid of a two-state model it is shown that the degree of cooperativity of this dematuration process is increasing with the degree of crosslinking.