Silk from crickets: A new twist on spinning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Walker, Andrew A ^a,b   Weisman, Sarah ^b   Church, Jeffrey S ^b   Merritt, David J ^c   Mudie, Stephen T ^d   Sutherland, Tara D ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCINE; INSECT PROTEIN; SERINE; FIBROIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRICKET SILK; DNA LIBRARY; FIBER; HYPOPHARYNX; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOPTERA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECRETION; SHEAR STRESS; SILK; ACINAR CELL; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GRYLLIDAE; METABOLISM; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

GRYLLACRIDIDAE; GRYLLIDAE; ORTHOPTERA;

ACINAR CELLS; ANIMALS; FIBROINS; GENE LIBRARY; GRYLLIDAE; INSECT PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SILK; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84857096652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030408     Document Type: Article

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