Fibrous protein

Tropocollagen triple helix

A fibrous protein or scleroprotein is one of the three main types of proteins.[1] The others are globular and membrane proteins.[2]

There are many types of scleroprotein, such as keratin, collagen, elastin, and fibroin. Such proteins protect and support. They form connective tissue, tendons, bone matrices[broken anchor], and muscle fibre.

References

  1. Saad, Mohamed. Low resolution structure and packing investigations of collagen crystalline domains in tendon using Synchrotron Radiation X-rays, Structure factors determination, evaluation of Isomorphous Replacement methods and other modeling. (Oct 1994)PhD Thesis, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble I. p. 1–221. doi:10.13140/2.1.4776.7844.
  2. Andreeva, A. SCOP2 prototype: a new approach to protein structure mining. Nucleic Acids Res 42 (Database issue) (2014). p. D310-4. doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1242.