Recombinant Production, Characterization, and Fiber Spinning of an Engineered Short Major Ampullate Spidroin (MaSp1s)

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1365-1372

  Thamm, Christopher ^a   Scheibel, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HELICAL SOLUTIONS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SOLUTION STRUCTURES; SPIDER DRAGLINE SILK; SPIDER SILK PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; TYPICAL SEQUENCES;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

INSECT PROTEIN; MAJOR AMPULLATE SPIDROIN 1; MAJOR AMPULLATE SPIDROIN 2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SILK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FIBROIN; SPIDROIN 1;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYRTOPHORA MOLUCCENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREEZE DRYING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SHEAR STRENGTH; SPIDER; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMOSTABILITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBROINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPIDERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 85017619723     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00090     Document Type: Article

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