Conformation of the polyalanine repeats in minor ampullate gland silk of the spider Nephila clavipes

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 7127-7130

  Liivak, Oskar ^a   Flores, Anthony ^b   Lewis, Randolph ^b   Jelinski, Lynn W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEINS; SILK; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TENSILE STRENGTH;

GLAND SILK; NEPHILA CLAVIPES; POLYALANINE;

CONFORMATIONS;

EID: 0031269978     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma970834a     Document Type: Article

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