Synthesis and properties of crosslinked recombinant pro-resilin

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7061, 2005, Pages 999-1002

  Elvin, Christopher M ^a   Carr, Andrew G ^a   Huson, Mickey G ^a   Maxwell, Jane M ^a   Pearson, Roger D ^a   Vuocolo, Tony ^a   Liyou, Nancy E ^a   Wong, Darren C C ^a,b   Merritt, David J ^b   Dixon, Nicholas E ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; ELASTIC MODULI; ENERGY STORAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CUTICLE; ELASTIN; GLUTEN; PRO-RESILIN;

PROTEINS;

1,3 BUTADIENE; BIOMATERIAL; RECOMBINANT PRORESILIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RUBBER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ARANEAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 27144527038     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04085     Document Type: Article

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