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.