Hydration structure of a collagen peptide.
Bella, J., Brodsky, B., Berman, H.M.(1995) Structure 3: 893-906
- PubMed: 8535783 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-2126(01)00224-6
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1CGD - PubMed Abstract: 
The collagen triple helix is a unique protein motif defined by the supercoiling of three polypeptide chains in a polyproline II conformation. It is a major domain of all collagen proteins and is also reported to exist in proteins with host defense function and in several membrane proteins. The triple-helical domain has distinctive properties. Collagen requires a high proportion of the post-translationally modified imino acid 4-hydroxyproline and water to stabilize its conformation and assembly. The crystal structure of a collagen-like peptide determined to 1.85 Angstrum showed that these two features may be related.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA.