Designing recombinant spider silk proteins to control assembly

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Volumn 24, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 265-270

  Winkler, Stefan ^a   Szela, Sandra ^a   Avtges, Peter ^a   Valluzzi, Regina ^a   Kirschner, Daniel A ^b   Kaplan, David ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Proteins; Silk; Spider

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SILK; SPIDER; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 0032965130     PISSN: 01418130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-8130(98)00088-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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