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Artificial spinning of natural silk threads

Silk producing arthropods spin solid fibres from an aqueous protein feedstock apparently relying on the complex structure of the silk protein and its controlled aggregation by shear forces, alongside biochemical changes. This flow-induced phase-transition of the stored native silk molecules is irrev...

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Autores principales: Frydrych, Martin, Greenhalgh, Alexander, Vollrath, Fritz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31659185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51589-9