Silk properties determined by gland-specific expression of a spider fibroin gene family

Science

Volumn 272, Issue 5258, 1996, Pages 112-115

  Guerette, Paul A ^a   Ginzinger, David G ^a   Weber, Bernhard H F ^a,b   Gosline, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; FIBROIN; GLYCINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTIC FIBER; FIBER; GENE EXPRESSION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SILK; SPIDER;

EID: 0029925013     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5258.112     Document Type: Article

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21. Supported by grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and E I DuPont de Nemours & Co. to J M G We acknowledge lab space provided by M Hayden and critical review of the manuscript by H. Brock, T Grigliatti, M Lillie, and D Nelson