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Single Honeybee Silk Protein Mimics Properties of Multi-Protein Silk

Honeybee silk is composed of four fibrous proteins that, unlike other silks, are readily synthesized at full-length and high yield. The four silk genes have been conserved for over 150 million years in all investigated bee, ant and hornet species, implying a distinct functional role for each protein...

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Autores principales: Sutherland, Tara D., Church, Jeffrey S., Hu, Xiao, Huson, Mickey G., Kaplan, David L., Weisman, Sarah
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3032785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21311767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016489