Elongated Polyproline Motifs Facilitate Enamel Evolution through Matrix Subunit Compaction

Tianquan Jin; Yoshihiro Ito; Xianghong Luan; Smit Dangaria; Cameron Walker; Michael Allen; Ashok Kulkarni; Carolyn Gibson; Richard Braatz; Xiubei Liao; Thomas G. H. Diekwisch

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000262

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Elongated Polyproline Motifs Facilitate Enamel Evolution through Matrix Subunit Compaction

Tianquan Jin ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianquan Jin, Yoshihiro Ito

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Yoshihiro Ito ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tianquan Jin, Yoshihiro Ito

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Xianghong Luan,

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Smit Dangaria,

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Cameron Walker,

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Michael Allen,

Affiliation University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Ashok Kulkarni,

Affiliation National Institutes of Health, Functional Genomics Unit, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Carolyn Gibson,

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Richard Braatz,

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America
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Xiubei Liao,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Thomas G. H. Diekwisch

* E-mail: tomdkw@uic.edu

Affiliation Brodie Laboratory for Craniofacial Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Elongated Polyproline Motifs Facilitate Enamel Evolution through Matrix Subunit Compaction

Tianquan Jin,
Yoshihiro Ito,
Xianghong Luan,
Smit Dangaria,
Cameron Walker,
Michael Allen,
Ashok Kulkarni,
Carolyn Gibson,
Richard Braatz,
Xiubei Liao

Published: December 22, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000262

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