Traditional procedures for the isolation of soluble type 1 collagen (COL1) require about 10 days from start to finish because of lengthy buffer incubations and laborious resuspensions of fibrils. Here, we describe a means to purify COL1 from small dermal biopsies in less than 3 hr.
Pacak, C. A., MacKay, A. A., Cowan, D. B. An Improved Method for the Preparation of Type I Collagen From Skin. J. Vis. Exp. (83), e51011, doi:10.3791/51011 (2014).