Structure, physiology, and biochemistry of collagens

MJ Mienaltowski, DE Birk - Progress in heritable soft connective tissue …, 2014 - Springer
Tendons and ligaments are connective tissues that guide motion, share loads, and transmit
forces in a manner that is unique to each as well as the anatomical site and biomechanical …

Thrombospondin-4 controls matrix assembly during development and repair of myotendinous junctions

A Subramanian, TF Schilling - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Tendons are extracellular matrix (ECM)-rich structures that mediate muscle attachments with
the skeleton, but surprisingly little is known about molecular mechanisms of attachment …

Recessive and dominant mutations in COL12A1 cause a novel EDS/myopathy overlap syndrome in humans and mice

Y Zou, D Zwolanek, Y Izu, S Gandhy… - Human molecular …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Collagen VI-related myopathies are disorders of connective tissue presenting with an
overlap phenotype combining clinical involvement from the muscle and from the connective …

Proteomic analysis reveals age-related changes in tendon matrix composition, with age-and injury-specific matrix fragmentation

MJ Peffers, CT Thorpe, JA Collins, R Eong… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Energy storing tendons, such as the human Achilles and equine superficial digital flexor
tendon (SDFT), are highly prone to injury, the incidence of which increases with aging. The …

Col6a1 Null Mice as a Model to Study Skin Phenotypes in Patients with Collagen VI Related Myopathies: Expression of Classical and Novel Collagen VI Variants …

S Lettmann, W Bloch, T Maaß, A Niehoff, JN Schulz… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Patients suffering from collagen VI related myopathies caused by mutations in COL6A1,
COL6A2 and COL6A3 often also display skin abnormalities, like formation of keloids or …

A mouse model for dominant collagen VI disorders: heterozygous deletion of Col6a3 Exon 16

TC Pan, RZ Zhang, M Arita, S Bogdanovich… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Dominant and recessive mutations in collagen VI genes, COL6A1, COL6A2, and COL6A3,
cause a continuous spectrum of disorders characterized by muscle weakness and …

[PDF][PDF] A Mouse Model for Dominant Collagen VI Disorders

HDOFC EXON - J. Biol. Chem, 2014 - academia.edu
Background: Dominant collagen VI gene mutations cause the severe Ullrich congenital
muscular dystrophy (UCMD) and mild Bethlem myopathy. Results: A mutant mouse …

[PDF][PDF] Proteomic analysis reveals age-related

HRC Screen, PD Clegg, A Collins, R Eong, TKJ Wei - 2014 - researchgate.net
Background: Alterations in tendon matrix composition with ageing and injury are poorly
understood. Results: Ageing and injury resulted in distinct protein profiles, with age-specific …

[引用][C] A Mouse Model for Dominant Collagen VI Disorders: Heterozygous Deletion of Col6a3 Exon 16* Te-Cheng Pan1, Rui-Zhu Zhang1, Machiko Arita1, Sasha …

K Gara, R Wagener, TS Khurana, DE Birk, ML Chu - 2014 - ASBMB