Spider silks from plants - A challenge to create native-sized spidroins

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1183-1192

  Hauptmann, Valeska ^a   Weichert, Nicola ^a   Rakhimova, Marziya ^a   Conrad, Udo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intein; Multimerization; Spider silk; Transgenic plants; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

INTEIN; MULTIMERIZATION; SPIDER SILKS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

ELASTICITY; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOUGHNESS;

RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

INTEIN; PLANT SILK; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SILK; SPIDROIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICINE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ELASTICITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SERICULTURE; SPIDER; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

INTEIN; MULTIMERIZATION; SPIDER SILK; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; TRANSGLUTAMINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FIBROINS; INTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 84884965518     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201300204     Document Type: Review

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