Liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-mass
spectrometers (LC/ESI-MS) (Guifeng et al., 2006) and
High performance liquid chromatography tandem mass
spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) (Pataridis et al., 2008)
which enable the analysis of marker peptides in peptide
mixtures produced by cyanogen bromide/trypsin
digestion. Another analytical method involves the
radioactive labeling of proline and enzyme immunoassay
by collagen-specific antibodies (Van der et al., 1994).
The aim of the present study is to compare the acidsoluble and pepsin-soluble isolated forms of collagen
from dried jellyfish and dried squid, and their properties. It
should be possible to determine which collagen subtypes
are present in collagen extracted from dried jellyfish and
dried squid, and the functional properties of these
proteins will be studied and a comparison made of
collagen extracted from marine organisms with those
from other organisms, as marine collagens could be used
as alternative sources of high quality collagen in
applications within the pharmaceutical and nutrition
industries.