title: A never-ending love story with elastin: a scientific autobiography.
abstract: The author describes, in a quite unconventional way, the most important results achieved in the last 50 years in the field of elastin structure-elasticity relationships, beginning with the first invaluable findings of Partridge on desmosines and isodesmosines until the most recent theories on elastomeric proteins. The author also relates a scientific autobiography characterized by his greatest passion, elastin.
authors.affiliation: University of Basilicata, Department of Chemistry, Via N. Sauro 85, 85100 Potenza, Italy. antonio.tamburro@unibas.it
authors.forename: Antonio M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tamburro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004548:Elasticity; D004549:Elastin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D011487:Protein Conformation; D014333:Tropoelastin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014333:Tropoelastin; D004549:Elastin