Helical model of nucleation and propagation to account for the growth of type I collagen fibrils from symmetrical pointed tips: a special example of self-assembly of rod-like monomers.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 15, 1992

Authors

D Silver1, J Miller, R Harrison, D J Prockop

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855.

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