Structural studies of spider silk proteins in the fiber

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Parkhe, Ajay D ^a,d   Seeley, Stacy K ^a,e   Gardner, Kenneth ^b   Thompson, Lynmarie ^a   Lewis, Randolph V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d PPG INDUSTRIES   (United States)

^e TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dragline silk; major ampullate; NMR X ray diffraction; protein structure

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SILK; SPIDER; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INSECT PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SILK; SPIDERS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031021006     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1352(199701/02)10:1<1::AID-JMR338>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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