Purification and biochemical characterization of a 70 kDa sericin from tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 129-134

  Dash, Rupesh ^a   Ghosh, Sudip K ^a   Kaplan, David L ^b   Kundu, S C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

CD spectroscopy; Cocoon; Non mulberry silkmoth; Sericin; Silk gland

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; CONCANAVALIN A; GLYCINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; SERICIN; SERINE;

ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COCOON; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LARVA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SILKWORM;

ANTHERAEA MYLITTA; BOMBYX MORI; MORUS (PLANT); SAMIA RICINI;

EID: 33947727457     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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