Structural proteins from whelk egg capsule with long range elasticity associated with a solid-state phase transition

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-42

  Wasko, S Scott ^a   Tay, Gavin Z ^b,c   Schwaighofer, Andreas ^d   Nowak, Christoph ^c,d   Waite, J Herbert ^a   Miserez, Ali ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; HELICAL COILED-COIL; PRECURSOR PROTEINS; PRIMARY SEQUENCES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SOLID-STATE PHASE TRANSITION; STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

ELASTICITY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RNA;

PROTEINS;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EGG; ELASTICITY; GASTROPOD; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLID STATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; OVUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84892603135     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm401598z     Document Type: Article

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