Recombinant Minimalist Spider Wrapping Silk Proteins Capable of Native-Like Fiber Formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Lingling ^a,b   Rainey, Jan K ^b,c   Meng, Qing ^a   Liu, Xiang Qin ^b  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINIFORM PROTEIN 1; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SILK; SPIDER WRAPPING SILK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPIDER; TENSILE STRENGTH;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELASTICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SILK; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SPIDERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ARANEAE; ARGIOPE TRIFASCIATA;

EID: 84870347032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050227     Document Type: Article

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