Structural Characterization of Minor Ampullate Spidroin Domains and Their Distinct Roles in Fibroin Solubility and Fiber Formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Gao, Zhenwei ^a   Lin, Zhi ^a   Huang, Weidong ^a,b   Lai, Chong Cheong ^a   Fan, Jing Song ^a   Yang, Daiwen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER; LINKER DOMAIN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPETITIVE DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEAR STRESS; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FIBROINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SILK; SOLUBILITY; SPIDERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84873911799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056142     Document Type: Article

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