The N-terminal domains of spider silk proteins assemble ultrafast and protected from charge screening

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Schwarze, Simone ^a   Zwettler, Fabian U ^a   Johnson, Christopher M ^b   Neuweiler, Hannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; ELECTROLYTE; PROTEIN; SILK; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPIDROIN 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MUTATION; PH; PROTEIN; REACTION KINETICS; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB; TENSILE STRENGTH;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PH; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; PISAURIDAE;

ANIMALS; FIBROINS; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPIDERS;

EID: 84889564783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3815     Document Type: Article

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