Reversibly labile, sclerotization-induced elastic properties in a keratin analog from marine snails: Whelk egg capsule biopolymer (WECB)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-26

  Rapoport, H Scott ^a,b   Shadwick, Robert E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elastomer; Marine snail; Mechanical properties; Whelk egg capsule biopolymer

Indexed keywords

FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KERATIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; MECHANICAL STRESS; OOCYTE; PH; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SNAIL; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; FORMIC ACIDS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OVUM; SNAILS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BUSYCON CANALICULATUM; CAENOGASTROPODA; GASTROPODA; KELLETIA KELLETII;

EID: 33846469974     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02613     Document Type: Article

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