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A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 34500
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New Zealand Leather & Shoe Research Association, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Interests: collagen; method development; enzymes; structural studies; skin; leather
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Dear Colleagues,
Collagen is the most abundant structural proteins in animals and play an integral biological and structural role in the extracellular matrix. There are up to 28 different types of collagen in vertebrates, where most of them interact with other ECM proteins to form supramolecular network architecture which play a vital part in cell adhesion, migration and proliferation as well as providing strength. Although they all share a common feature of at least one triple helical domain, there are significant differences between the amino acid number and sequence, structure, and the role of different collagen types. The discovery of collagen structure by Crick et al. and Ramachandran et al. in 1955 has driven a rapid understanding of the molecular and structural properties of collagen. Such understanding guided further extraction and characterisation of collagen for different applications.
In the recent years, the beneficial effects of collagen and its peptides as functional food has attracted more scientific research interests, however understanding its composition and fibrillar structure and biological characteristics has proven crucial.
We you to submit your review and original research covering a broad range of topics in collagen and its applications. Area of particular interest but are not limited to:
- Extraction of collagen from animal sources.
- Characterisation of collagen.
- Degradation of collagen.
- Collagen peptides.
- Collagen structure.
- Types of collagen and their compositions.
- Bio-analytical methods for collagen purification and characterisation.
- Collagen applications.
- Collagen as protein source in food.
- Collagen in leather industry.
- Novel Technology for collagen.
- New trends in collagen.
Dr. Rafea Naffa
Guest Editor
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- collagen peptides
- mass spectrometry
- extraction
- composition
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Collagen Extraction from Animal Skin
by Andrea Marie E. Matinong, Yusuf Chisti, Kim L. Pickering and Richard G. Haverkamp
Biology 2022, 11(6), 905; https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11060905 - 13 Jun 2022
Cited by 66 |Viewed by 23797
Abstract
Collagen is the most abundant structural protein in animals. It is the major component of skin. It finds uses in cosmetics, medicine, yarn production and packaging. This paper reviews the extraction of collagen from hides of most consumed animals for meat with the [...] Read more.
Collagen is the most abundant structural protein in animals. It is the major component of skin. It finds uses in cosmetics, medicine, yarn production and packaging. This paper reviews the extraction of collagen from hides of most consumed animals for meat with the focus on literature published since 2000. The different pretreatment and extraction techniques that have been investigated for producing collagen from animal skins are reviewed. Pretreatment by enzymatic, acid or alkaline methods have been used. Extraction by chemical hydrolysis, salt solubilization, enzymatic hydrolysis, ultrasound assisted extraction and other methods are described. Post-extraction purification methods are also explained. This compilation will be useful for anyone wishing to use collagen as a resource and wanting to further improve the extraction and purification methods. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Collagen from Animal Biological Sources: Extraction, Purification, Characterisation and Applications)
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