Recombinant spider silk from aqueous solutions via a bio-inspired microfluidic chip

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Peng, Qingfa ^a   Zhang, Yaopeng ^a   Lu, Li ^a   Shao, Huili ^a   Qin, Kankan ^b   Hu, Xuechao ^a   Xia, Xiaoxia ^b  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SILK; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; PROCEDURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPIDER; TENSILE STRENGTH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FIBROINS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SILK; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPIDERS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER;

EID: 84994667268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep36473     Document Type: Article

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