Transglutamination allows production and characterization of native-sized ELPylated spider silk proteins from transgenic plants

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 265-275

  Weichert, Nicola ^a   Hauptmann, Valeska ^a   Menzel, Matthias ^b   Schallau, Kai ^a   Gunkel, Philip ^a   Hertel, Thomas C ^c   Pietzsch, Markus ^c   Spohn, Uwe ^b   Conrad, Udo ^a  

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

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; ELPylation; Nanoindentation; Spider silk; Transgenic tobacco; Transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

FIBROIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; SILK; SPIDER SILK; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ELPYLATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR FARMING; NANOINDENTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SPIDER; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELPYLATION; NANOINDENTATION; SPIDER SILK; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO; TRANSGLUTAMINASE;

ANIMALS; FIBROINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR FARMING; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SILK; SPIDERS; TOBACCO; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 84892880464     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12135     Document Type: Article

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