tropocollagen
Noun
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tropocollagen (countable and uncountable, plural tropocollagens)
(biochemistry) A component of fibres of collagen in which three polypeptide chains are coiled around each other.
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Tropocollagen molecule: three left-handed procollagens (red, green, blue) join to form a right handed triple helical tropocollagen.
What is left is known as tropocollagen.