Amyloidogenic nature of spider silk

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 269, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 4159-4163

  Kenney, John M ^a   Knight, David ^b   Wise, Michael J ^c   Vollrath, Fritz ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CD spectroscopy; Low complexity peptides; Spider silk; Spidroin, amyloids

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PROTEIN; SPIDROIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACTION; FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILK; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; FIBROINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLUBILITY; SPIDERS; TEMPERATURE;

ARANEAE;

EID: 0036041641     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03112.x     Document Type: Article

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