Collagen

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triple helix

Every third amino acid is a glycine

proline

hydroxyproline

alanine

Additional Information

1. Collagen on Wikipedia

Another Jmol tutorial

Tutorial which illustrates and describes the 3D structure of collagen

Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors (what is this?)

Karl Oberholser, Judy Voet, Ala Jelani, Alexander Berchansky, Tilman Schirmer, Michal Harel, Jaime Prilusky, Eric Martz, David Canner, Eran Hodis