Andrew Baker

Jan 29, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Andrew Baker |Michael Buckley

1 Introduction One of the most prevalent proteins on Earth (Patino et al. 2002), collagen is particularly abundant in the matrix of bone in chordates and ubiquitous among many other phyla (Boot-Handford and Tuckwell 2003). As a structural protein, the arrangement and rearrangement of collagen plays a major role in adhesion and tissue growth (Imayama and Braverman 1989; Lee and Boughner 1981; Nuyttens et al. 2011).