A fast recoiling silk-like elastomer facilitates nanosecond nematocyst discharge

BACKGROUND: The discharge of the Cnidarian stinging organelle, the nematocyst, is one of the fastest processes in biology and involves volume changes of the highly pressurised (150 bar) capsule of up to 50%. Hitherto, the molecular basis for the unusual biomechanical properties of nematocysts has be...

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Autores principales: Beckmann, Anna, Xiao, Senbo, Müller, Jochen P, Mercadante, Davide, Nüchter, Timm, Kröger, Niels, Langhojer, Florian, Petrich, Wolfgang, Holstein, Thomas W, Benoit, Martin, Gräter, Frauke, Özbek, Suat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25592740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0113-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25592740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0113-1

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