The Composition of Elastin*
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Elastin is one of the prominent fiber proteins in the body, yet one of the least well known. Very little work has been done upon its chemical and physical characterization since the early work of Richards and Gies (1) in their study of ligament, of Abderhalden and Schittenhelm (2), who accounted for 61 per cent by weight of the amino acids in elastin, and of Kossel and Kutscher (3), who studied the basic amino acid content. It seemed probable that application of some of the more recently developed methods in protein chemistry might yield interesting information.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003