Structure of the spinning apparatus of a wild silkworm Samia cynthia ricini and molecular dynamics calculation on the structural change of the silk fibroin

Polymer

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2064-2070

  Asakura, Tetsuo ^a   Yao, Juming ^b   Yang, Mingying ^a   Zhu, Zhenghua ^a   Hirose, Haruko ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c TEIJIN LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D architecture of spinneret; Molecular dynamics calculation; Samia cynthia ricini silk fibroin

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS; SPINNING (FIBERS);

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CALCULATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS (MM) CALCULATION; RICINI SILKWORMS; SAMIA CYNTHIA RICINI SILK FIBROIN;

SILK;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS; SILK; SPINNING;

CRYSTALLINITY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FIBER MANUFACTURE; FIBER PROPERTY; FIBROIN; SILK FIBER; SILKWORM; SPINNERET; SPINNING MACHINE;

EID: 33947178954     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.01.071     Document Type: Article

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