Type II collagen 

collagen, type II, alpha 1 (primary osteoarthritis, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, congenital)
Identifiers
Symbol COL2A1
Alt. Symbols SEDC
Entrez 1280
HUGO 2200
OMIM 120140
RefSeq NM_001844
UniProt P02458
Other data
Locus Chr. 12 q13.11-q13.2

Type-II collagen is the basis for articular cartilage and hyaline cartilage.

It makes up 50% of all protein in cartilage and 85-90% of collagen of articular cartilage.

See also

Type II collagen does form fibers. This fibrillar network of collagen allows cartilage to entrap the proteoglycan aggregate as well as provide tensile strength to the tissue.

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Protein: scleroproteins
Extracellular matrix
1-12
type I (COL1A1, COL1A2) · type II (COL2A1) · type III · type IV (COL4A1, COL4A2, COL4A3, COL4A4, COL4A5, COL4A6) · type V (COL5A1, COL5A2, COL5A3) · type VI (COL6A1, COL6A2, COL6A3) · type VII (COL7A1) · type VIII (COL8A1, COL8A2) · type IX (COL9A1, COL9A2, COL9A3) · type X (COL10A1) · type XI (COL11A1, COL11A2) · type XII (COL12A1)
13-29
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Keratin/Cytokeratin
type I (10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)

type II (1, 2A, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 7, 8, 9)

Hair (Type I, Type II) · Beta
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