Potency of Fish Collagen as a Scaffold for Regenerative Medicine

Table 1

Amino acid composition of bovine and tilapia.

Amino acids	Residues/1000
	Bovine*	Tilapia**
Hydroxyproline	87	85.5
Asparaginic acid	35	44.0
Threonine	17	25.2
Serine	35	35.6
Glutamic acid	70	72.3
Proline	105	113.4
Glycine	296	332.3
Alanine	122	131.9
Valine	17	17.2
Methionine	17	9.6
Isoleucine	17	8.8
Leucine	35	22.4
Tyrosine	17	1.5
Phenylalanine	17	12.3
Histidine	7	5.6
Hydroxylysine	17	9
Lysine	35	23.6
Arginine	52	49.6

∗Courtesy of Professor Mitsuo Yamauchi, North Carolina Oral Health Institute, NC, USA.
∗∗Courtesy of Department of Protein Engineering, Nippi Inc., Tokyo, Japan.