Fibrillins are the main constituents of the extracellular microfibrils that form a template for tropoelastin during elastic fibrillogenesis. Fibrillins polymerize extracellularly as parallel bundles o
Trophoblast invasion of the uterine extracellular matrix, a critical process for human implantation and uteroplacental vascular development, is a striking example of controlled invasiveness. To examin
The collagens are a large and diverse family of proteins which are found in the extracellular matrix. In common with one another, the 19 known collagen types have triple-helical domains of variable le