Modelling collagen fibril self-assembly from extracellular medium in embryonic tendon
C. K. Revell, J. A. Herrera, C. Lawless, Y. Lu, K. E. Kadler, J. Chang, O. E. Jensen
The paper models collagen fibril self-assembly in embryonic mouse tendon, showing that fibrils form extracellularly through a phase-transition mechanism, supported by experimental data.
bioRxiv · Mar 13, 2023Biophysics