Silkomics: Insight into the Silk Spinning Process of Spiders

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1179-1193

  Dos Santos Pinto, José Roberto Aparecido ^a,b   Garcia, Ana Maria Caviquioli ^a   Arcuri, Helen Andrade ^a   Esteves, Franciele Grego ^a   Salles, Heliana Clara ^a   Lubec, Gert ^b   Palma, Mario Sergio ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

bottom up gel based proteomic approach; Nephila clavipes; shotgun proteomic approach; silk proteins; silk producing glands

Indexed keywords

SILK; INSECT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE ONTOLOGY; ION TRANSPORT; NEPHILA CLAVIPES; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOMICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEOMICS; SILK; SPIDERS;

EID: 84963691729     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b01056     Document Type: Article

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