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THE length of the tropocollagen (TC) molecule is about 4.4 times that of the native collagen period (D) (refs. 1–4). The standard appearances of negatively and positively stained fibrils are shown in Fig. 1 and the correlation between the two staining patterns in that figure is based on the findings of Nemetschek5.
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SMITH, J. Molecular Pattern in Native Collagen. Nature 219, 157–158 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219157a0
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