Collagen: Building Nature’s Infrastructure - Nutrition & Food Science

 

Collagen has been a personal passion of mine since graduate school where my thesis tells the story of how collagen and elastin cross-links  are  affected  by  d-penicillamine, a remarkable amino acid. Collagen has been around since metazoan times. Its structure is elegantly simple and simply elegant. Glycine-proline-Any amino acid is a base unit that, when repeated about 1,000 times, becomes one strand of collagen. Three strands wind together to make a single collagen  molecule.  Collagen  is  a  major part of the infrastructure of all mammals, fish, birds, and crustacean. The infrastructure includes bones and joints, arteries and veins, tendons and fascia. The orienting basement membrane that every cell receives nourishment from and exports metabolic products and wastes has a specialized collagen core.

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