Preparation of insoluble collagen from human cartilage (Short Communication)
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 135 (1) , 245-247
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1350245
Abstract
A simple technique is described for the removal of proteoglycans from human cartilage by sequential treatments with H2O2 followed by trypsin digestion. The resultant fibres contain no uronic acids and have the amino acid composition of highly purified collagen.Keywords
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