The structural proteins in the extracellular matrix and connective tissue (namely collagen and elastin) tend to have covalent crosslinks. So I I’m really not sure it’s accurate to say that hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces are what’s holding the cells together.
The structural proteins in the extracellular matrix and connective tissue (namely collagen and elastin) tend to have covalent crosslinks. So I I’m really not sure it’s accurate to say that hydrogen bonds and van der Waals forces are what’s holding the cells together.