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A salt soluble protein, isolated from the aortas of copper-deficient swine, has been characterized as a precursor of elastin by its amino acid composition and its incorporation into insoluble aortic elastin in vitro.
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Smith, D.W., Abraham, P.A., Carnes, W.H. (1977). Studies of the Biosynthesis of a Soluble Precursor of Elastin. In: Sandberg, L.B., Gray, W.R., Franzblau, C. (eds) Elastin and Elastic Tissue. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 79. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9093-0_34
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