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If the three polypeptide chains of collagen had terminal segments with structures which facilitated rapid association and were then discarded, a puzzle might be solved. Such a mechanism could explain why biosynthesis of collagen takes minutes in vivo but much longer in vitro.
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SPEAKMAN, P. Proposed Mechanism for the Biological Assembly of Collagen Triple Helix. Nature 229, 241–243 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229241a0
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