Myocommata proteins

Connective Tissue Proteins. Collagen comprises the major material of skin and myocommata. Love and his co-workers studied the problem of gaping in which slits or holes appear in the muscle and sometimes the fillet falls apart. This defect is related to the behavior of myocommata proteins (83-87). Gaping is more severe in fishes frozen in-rigor than in those frozen pre-rigor, and the seriousness of this defect varies with the biological condition of the fish (influenced by season, size, age, and whether the fish is healthy or starved), and the fish species. 

The chemical and physical properties of collagen proteins are different in tissues such as skin, swim bladder, and the myocommata muscle. In general, collagen fibrils form a delicate network structure with varying complexity in the different connective tissues in a pattern similar to that found in mammals. However, the collagen in fish is much more thermolabile and contains fewer, but more labile, cross-links than collagen from the warm-blooded vertebrates. 

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