Abstract
Bone and dentin mainly consist of type-I collagen fibrils mineralized by hydroxyapatite (HAP) nanocrystals. In-vitro biomimetic models based on self-assembled collagen fibrils have been widely used in studying the mineralization mechanism of type-I collagen. In this chapter, the protocol we used to build a biomimetic model for the mechanistic study of type-I collagen mineralization is described. Type-I collagen extracted from rat tail tendon or horse tendon is selfassembled into fibrils and mineralized by HAP in vitro. The mineralization process is monitored by cryoTEM in combination with two-dimension (2D) and three-dimension (3D) stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), which enables in-situ and high resolution visualization of the process.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Collagen |
| Subtitle of host publication | Methods and Protocols |
| Publisher | Humana Press |
| Pages | 39-54 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4939-9095-5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4939-9094-8 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 7 Mar 2019 |
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