Structural disorder in silk proteins reveals the emergence of elastomericity

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 216-221

  Dicko, Cedric ^a   Porter, David ^a   Bond, Jason ^b   Kenney, John M ^b   Vollrath, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERICITY; FOLDING INDEX; NEPHILA EDULIS;

AMINO ACIDS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTOMERS; SILK; SPINNING (FIBERS);

PROTEINS;

ELASTOMER; GLYCINE; INSECT PROTEIN; SPIDROIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SILK; SPIDER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELASTICITY; INSECT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SILK; TEMPERATURE;

CORRELATION; ELASTOMERS; GLYCINE; PROTEINS; SILK; SPINNING;

ARANEAE; NEPHILA EDULIS;

EID: 38849119675     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm701069y     Document Type: Article

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