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Gelatin
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Viro, Felix Kind & Knox, Sioux City, Iowa.
Last reviewed:2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.284000
A protein extracted after partial hydrolysis of collagenous raw material from the skin, white connective tissue, and bone of animals. It is a linear polymer of amino acids, most often with repeating glycine-proline-proline and glycine-proline-hydroxyproline sequences in the polypeptide linkages. Gelatin gives positive test for hydroxyproline, and yields amino acid components upon complete hydrolysis. See also: Amino acids; Collagen; Protein
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