A silk purse from a sow's ear-bioinspired materials based on α-helical coiled coils

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-137

  Quinlan, Roy A ^a   Bromley, Elizabeth H ^a   Pohl, Ehmke ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA KERATIN; BIOMATERIAL; BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; KERATIN; NANOCOMPOSITE; SILK; STEEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ALPHA HELIX; BIOMEDICINE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EAR; HAIR; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOW (SWINE); TENSILE STRENGTH; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMIMETICS; HAIR; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SILK;

EID: 84924190956     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2014.12.010     Document Type: Review

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