Crystalline regions of Bombyx mori silk fibroin may exhibit β-turn and β-helix conformations

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 4700-4705

  Lazo, N D ^a   Downing, Donald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLUBILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BOMBYX MORI; CIRCULAR DICHROIC SPECTRUM; SILK FIBROIN;

SILK;

EID: 0032635685     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9900582     Document Type: Article

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