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New Model for the Tropocollagen Macromolecule and its Mode of Aggregation

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GRANT, R., HORNE, R. & COX, R. New Model for the Tropocollagen Macromolecule and its Mode of Aggregation. Nature 207, 822–826 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207822a0

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