Pseudoelastic behaviour of a natural material is achieved via reversible changes in protein backbone conformation

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 76, 2012, Pages 2911-2922

  Harrington, Matthew J ^a   Wasko, S Scott ^b   Masic, Admir ^a   Fischer, F Dieter ^c   Gupta, Himadri S ^d   Fratzl, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Austria)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biopolymer; Coiled coil; Conformation; Protein; Pseudoelasticity

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; CONFORMATIONS; POLYMERS; SHELLFISH;

BIOLOGICAL POLYMERS; BUILDING BLOCKES; COILED COIL; CONSTITUENT PROTEINS; ENCAPSULANTS; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOUR; IN-SITU; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METALLIC ALLOYS; MOLECULAR LEVELS; NATURAL MATERIALS; PROTEIN BACKBONE; PSEUDOELASTIC; PSEUDOELASTICITY; REVERSIBLE CHANGE; REVERSIBLE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TIME-RESOLVED; WORMLIKE CHAIN;

PROTEINS;

BIOPOLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHELK EGG CAPSULE BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; BUSYCOTYPUS CANALICULATUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; GASTROPOD; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84867471533     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0310     Document Type: Article

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