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Science 2 December 1966:
Vol. 154. no. 3753, pp. 1192 - 1194
DOI: 10.1126/science.154.3753.1192
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Noncollagenous Nature of the Proteins of Shark Enamel

Philip T. Levine 1, Melvin J. Glimcher 1, Jerome M. Seyer 1, James I. Huddleston 1, and John W. Hein 1

1 Orthopedic Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

The proteins, soluble and insoluble at neutral pH, of relatively mature enamel of two different species of sharks were distinctly different from both collagen and embryonic enamel proteins and similar to the proteins isolated from mature human and bovine enamel.

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