Definition of Tropocollagen
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tropocollagen
1.
Subunit from which collagen fibrils self assemble: generated from procollagen by proteolytic cleavage of the extension peptides.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropocollagen
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