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Basement membrane (type IV) collagen is a heteropolymer
Journal
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Volume
257
Number
9
Pages / Article-Number
5239-45
Abstract
Type IV collagen was isolated in high yield from bovine kidney cortex. The protein revealed Mr = 380,000 and contained, in a 2:1 ratio, two different disulfide-linked polypeptide chains, C-1 and D-1 (Mr = 125,000). Carboxymethyl-cellulose chromatography before and after reduction proved that the two polypeptide chains are arranged in a single triple helical molecule with the chain composition (C-1)2(D-1). The disulfide bridges appear to be located 180 amino acid residues from the NH2 terminus of the chains.
Publisher
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
