Structural organization of collagen in Metridium senile |
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Authors: | A Bigi MHJ Koch PP Purslow A Ripamonti N Roveri Z Sayers |
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Institution: | 1. Istituto Chimico ‘G. Ciamician’, Universitá di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;2. EMBL Hamburg Outstation, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-2000 Hamburg 52, FRG;3. Bioengineering Division, Agricultural Research Council, Meat Research, Institute, Bristol, UK;4. Centro per la Fisica delle Macromolecole, (CNR) c/o Istituto Chimico ‘G. Ciamician’, Univesitá di Bologna, Italy |
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Abstract: | The structure and distribution of collagen fibres in Metridium senile mesoglea has been investigated using high and small angle X-ray diffraction techniques on conventional and synchrotron sources. The mesoglea collagen axial spacing appears very close to that of rat tail tendon, which is at variance with the values previously obtained from electron microscopic observations. The different intensity distribution of the small angle X-ray diffraction maxima recorded for mesoglea and rat tail tendon indicates a different distribution of electron density inside the repeating period. Furthermore the absence of the first order, the weak second order and the strong third and sixth orders in the patterns of wet and dry mesogleal collagen could explain that only a periodicity of 20–22 nm corresponding to one-third of the true axial period observed in the electron micrographs. The analysis of the reflections at 0.29 and 1.1–1.4 nm characteristics of the collagen molecular structure have been used to determine the distribution and orientation of the collagen fibres in unstretched and stretched samples |
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Keywords: | X-ray diffraction analysis collagen fibres Metridium senile collagen axial spacing |
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