Synthesis and characterization of chimeric silkworm silk

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 815-820

  Asakura, Tetsuo ^a   Nitta, Koji ^a   Yang, Mingying ^a   Yao, Juming ^a   Nakazawa, Yasumoto ^a   Kaplan, David L ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHIMERIC PROTEINS;

SILK;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; CARBON 13; CRYSTALLIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; SILK FIBROIN; TETRAMER; UREA;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHIMERA; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILK; SILKWORM; SOLID STATE; SOLUBILITY; SPIDER; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CATTLE; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SILK;

ARANEAE; BOMBYX MANDARINA; BOMBYX MORI; CYNTHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SAMIA; SAMIA CYNTHIA RICINI;

EID: 0037706853     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm034020f     Document Type: Article

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