Common structural motifs in proteins of the extracellular matrix.
Proteins of the extracellular matrix are composed of many structurally and often functionally different autonomous domains which frequently occur as modular units in several different extracellular matrix proteins, but also in proteins of different origin. Some domains serve related assembly functions in different proteins but for domains involved in cell attachment and other cellular activities only a few generalizations are possible.
Biocenter, University of Basel, Switzerland.
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D000818:Animals; D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D011487:Protein Conformation
D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins