Elucidating metabolic pathways for amino acid incorporation into dragline spider silk using 13C enrichment and solid state NMR

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-224

  Creager, Melinda S ^a   Izdebski, Thomas ^b   Brooks, Amanda E ^a   Lewis, Randolph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Major ampullate silk; Metabolic pathway; Silking; Solid state NMR; Spider

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CARBON 13; GLYCINE; LEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SILK; SOLID STATE; SPIDER;

ARANEAE;

EID: 79955592323     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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