Spider silk and amyloid fibrils: a structural comparison.
Although spider silks have been studied for decades, the assembly properties of the underlying silk proteins have still not been unravelled. Previously, the detection of amyloid-like nanofibrils in the spider's silk gland suggested their involvement in the assembly process.Recombinantly produced spider silk also self-assembles into nanofibrils. In order to investigate ... the structural properties of such silk nanofibrils in more detail, they have been compared to amyloid-like fibrils to highlight structural similarities.
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Amyloid, Animals, Circular Dichroism, Congo Red, Fungal Proteins, Microscopy, Atomic Force, Peptide Termination Factors, Prions, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Silk, Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared, Spiders, Thiazoles, X-Ray Diffraction
Amyloid, Animals, Circular Dichroism, Congo Red, Fungal Proteins, Microscopy, Atomic Force, Peptide Termination Factors, Prions, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Silk, Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared, Spiders, Thiazoles, X-Ray Diffraction
Macromol Biosci
Date: Feb. 12, 2007
PubMed ID: 17295405
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