Production, structure and in vitro degradation of electrospun honeybee silk nanofibers

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3789-3795

  Wittmer, Corinne R ^a   Hu, Xiao ^a   Gauthier, Pierre Chanel ^a   Weisman, Sarah ^b   Kaplan, David L ^a   Sutherland, Tara D ^b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Coiled coil; Electrospinning; Nanofibers; Silk

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CELL CULTURE; DEGRADATION; ELECTROSPINNING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; WATER TREATMENT;

APIS MELLIFERA; COILED COIL; ELECTROSPUNS; FIBROUS PROTEINS; INFRARED: SPECTROSCOPY; PARTIAL DEGRADATION; PRODUCTION STRUCTURES; SILK; SILK PROTEINS; TIME-SCALES;

NANOFIBERS;

HONEYBEE SILK PROTEIN; METHANOL; NANOFIBER; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AMELF3; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBROBLAST; HONEYBEE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SILK; SOLID STATE;

APIS MELLIFERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80052259304     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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