Silk protein aggregation kinetics revealed by Rheo-IR

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 776-784

  Boulet Audet, Maxime ^a   Terry, Ann E ^a,b   Vollrath, Fritz ^a   Holland, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy; Bombyx mori; Native silk; Reconstituted silk fibroin; Rheology

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; SHEAR THINNING;

AGGREGATION KINETICS; ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; BOMBYX MORI; MULTI-SCALES; NATIVE SILK; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RECONSTITUTED SILK FIBROIN; SILK FIBRES; SILK FIBROIN; SILK PROTEINS;

PROTEINS;

SILK FIBROIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOMBYX MORI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REFLECTOMETRY;

BOMBYX MORI;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTANCE FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; BOMBYX MORI; NATIVE SILK; RECONSTITUTED SILK FIBROIN; RHEOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; ELASTIC MODULUS; KINETICS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RHEOLOGY; SILK; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84896546565     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.10.032     Document Type: Article

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