Effect of sequence features on assembly of spider silk block copolymers

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 412-419

  Tokareva, Olena S ^a   Lin, Shangchao ^b   Jacobsen, Matthew M ^c   Huang, Wenwen ^a,d   Rizzo, Daniel ^d   Li, David ^c   Simon, Marc ^d   Staii, Cristian ^d   Cebe, Peggy ^d   Wong, Joyce Y ^c   Buehler, Markus J ^b   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; Modeling; Self assembly; Silk

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; SILK; SPIDER SILK BLOCK COPOLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HISTIDINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOENGINEERING; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIDER; THERMODYNAMICS; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RADIATION SCATTERING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARANEAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HISTIDINE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPIDERS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84901595324     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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