collagen binding
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0005518
- Ontology
- molecular function
- Synonyms
- None
- Definition
- Interacting selectively and non-covalently with collagen, a group of fibrous proteins of very high tensile strength that form the main component of connective tissue in animals. Collagen is highly enriched in glycine (some regions are 33% glycine) and proline, occurring predominantly as 3-hydroxyproline (about 20%). [source:
GOC:ai, ISBN:0198506732]
- Comment
- None
- Subset
- None
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