Carbonization of a stable β-sheet-rich silk protein into a pseudographitic pyroprotein

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cho, Se Youn ^a   Yun, Young Soo ^a,d   Lee, Sungho ^b,c   Jang, Dawon ^b,c   Park, Kyu Young ^d   Kim, Jae Kyung ^e   Kim, Byung Hoon ^e   Kang, Kisuk ^d   Kaplan, David L ^f   Jin, Hyoung Joon ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^e SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

^f Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; PROTEIN; PSEUDOGRAPHITIC PYROPROTEIN; SILK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIBROIN; SILK;

CATALYST; DEGRADATION; PROTEIN; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBONIZATION; CATALYST; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEATING; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PYROLYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BOMBYX; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HEAT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CARBON; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FIBROINS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84930221997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8145     Document Type: Article

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