Blueprint for a High-Performance Biomaterial: Full-Length Spider Dragline Silk Genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Ayoub, Nadia A ^a   Garb, Jessica E ^a   Tinghitella, Robin M ^a   Collin, Matthew A ^a   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INSECT PROTEINS; MANNOSE-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SILK; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIDERS;

EID: 36649007963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000514     Document Type: Article

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