Fish skin type I collagen: wide distribution of an alpha 3 subunit in teleosts.
1. Skin Type I collagen was isolated from 15 species of teleosts. 2. Chromatographic and electrophoretic analyses revealed that most of the teleost skin collagens possessed a unique subunit, alpha 3, which had not been detected in other vertebrate Type I collagens. 3. The skin collagen seems to exist as an alpha 1 alpha 2 alpha 3 heterotrimer in many teleosts and as an (alpha 1)2 alpha 2 heterotrimer in some teleosts.
Kimura
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Laboratory of Biochemistry, Tokyo University of Fisheries, Japan.
Ohno
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Miyauchi
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Uchida
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D000818:Animals; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D003094:Collagen / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005399:Fishes / Q000378:metabolism*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D012867:Skin / Q000032:analysis*; D013045:Species Specificity
D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D003094:Collagen