Probing the elastic nature of spider silk in pursuit of the next designer fiber

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 40, Issue , 2004, Pages 232-237

  Brooks, Amanda E ^a   Lewis, Randolph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Mechanical properties; Spider silk

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BIOMATERIAL; ELESTICITY MOTIF; PREY; SPIDER SILK;

NATURAL FIBERS;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AMYLOID; BIOMATERIAL; SILK PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL INCLUSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA SEQUENCE; ELASTICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBER; FILM; GENE CASSETTE; MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; SILK; SPIDER; TENSILE STRENGTH; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INCLUSION BODIES; INSECT PROTEINS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 2342471800     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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