Spider egg case core fibers: Trimeric complexes assembled from TuSp1, ECP-1, and ECP-2

Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3506-3516

  Hu, Xiaoyi ^a,c   Kohler, Kristin ^a   Falick, Arnold M ^b   Moore, Anne M F ^a   Jones, Patrick R ^a   Vierra, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; DNA; IONIZATION; LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SILK; TOUGHNESS;

MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION (MALDI); PROTEIN ARCHITECTURES; SCATTERED BLOCKS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF);

PROTEINS;

ALANINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; EGG CASE PROTEIN 1; EGG CASE PROTEIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; SILK FIBROIN; TUBULIFORM SPIDROIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EGG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROLYSIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLACK WIDOW SPIDER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FIBROINS; GENE LIBRARY; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

DESORPTION; IONIZATION; LASERS; MASS SPECTRA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SILK; TOUGHNESS;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS; LATRODECTUS TREDECIMGUTTATUS;

EID: 33645221987     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi052105q     Document Type: Article

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