Message #237027

[In the Mouth of Madness]

Amino Acid    1977 Zuiyo-maru
Carcass Sample    Known basking
Shark Elastoidin
4-Hydroxyproline    45    45
Aspartic/acid    54    55
Threonine    25    25
Serine    39    40
Glutamic acid    80    80
Proline    130    125
Glycine    291    290
Alanine    109    110
Cystine (1/2)    7    6
Valine    25    24
Methionine    10    10
Isoleucine    20    20
Leucine    19    19
Tyrosine    43    41
Phenylalanine    12    12
Hydroxylysine    5    6
Lysine    25    26
Histidine    11    13
Arginine    51    53
(Amide-N)    (57)    (62)

Table 1. Results of Gross Amino Acid Analysis on the **** Fiber from the 1977 Zuiyo-maru Carcass and Known Elastoidin of a basking Shark (residues/1000 residues). Composition was determined by JLC-3BC liquid chromatography (JEOL Co. Ltd.). Both samples had been treated with NaClO. (Kimura, Fujii, and others 1978).