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Antigenic Properties of Soluble Elastins and their Use in Detecting Soluble Elastin in Ligament Extracts

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IN this laboratory we have been interested in the existence of a possible soluble precursor of insoluble elastin (tropoelastin) analogous to tropocollagen. However, since elastin has no enzyme activity and does not possess a specific amino-acid, such as occurs in collagen, no simple method was available to detect this protein in the presence of large amounts of other proteins, which are found in tissue extracts.

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  1. D. S. JACKSON

    Present address: Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, 13

  2. E. G. CLEARY

    Present address: Low Temperature Research Station, Cambridge

  3. L. B. SANDBERG: Post-doctoral Fellow of U.S. Public Health Service.

  4. E. G. CLEARY: Overseas Fellow of the National Heart Foundation of Australia

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  1. Departments of Biochemistry and Experimental Biology, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, Oregon

    D. S. JACKSON, L. B. SANDBERG & E. G. CLEARY

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JACKSON, D., SANDBERG, L. & CLEARY, E. Antigenic Properties of Soluble Elastins and their Use in Detecting Soluble Elastin in Ligament Extracts. Nature 210, 195–196 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210195a0

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