Assembly of collagen fibrils de novo by cleavage of the type I pC-collagen with procollagen C-proteinase. Assay of critical concentration demonstrates that collagen self-assembly is a classical example of an entropy-driven process.
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- 1 November 1987
- journal article
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- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Vol. 262 (32), 15696-15701
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47783-6
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