The skin collagen of brown backed toadfish, L. gloveri,
was extracted and characterized. It showed that
the large amount of type I collagen having heterotrimer
subunit composition (a1a2a3) could be isolated than
those isolated from other vertebrates. The thermal stability
of isolated collagen was fairly high due to the presence
of high imino acid content. L. gloveri living in
Pacific oceans has both non-toxic skins and muscles as
unlike as other fish species belongs to same family Tetraodontidae.
Therefore, there is a possibility to use skin
waste of brown backed toadfish processing as an alternative
source of cattle and porcine collagen for industrial
purposes.