Antheraea pernyiSilk Fiber: A Potential Resource for Artificially Biospinning Spider Dragline Silk
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Antheraea pernyi Silk Fiber: A Potential Resource for Artificially Biospinning Spider Dragline Silk
The outstanding properties of spider dragline silk are likely to be determined by a combination of the primary sequences and the secondary structure of the silk proteins. Antheraea pernyi silk has more similar sequences to spider dragline silk than the silk from its domestic counterpart, Bombyx mori. This makes it much potential as a resource for biospinning spider dragline silk. This paper fur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1110-7243,1110-7251
DOI: 10.1155/2010/683962