Spider Silk Proteins - Molecular Properties and Mechanical Function

Abstract

Spider silk has for long been studied for its remarkable biomechanical properties. In particular, much effort has been devoted to isolating coding sequences of different spider silk proteins. This paper aims at discussing the linking of nucleotide sequences - translated into amino acid sequences - to specific biomechanical qualities

Keywords

Spider silk; structure; function

Published in

Publisher: S Arapetyan, Yerevan Academic Press

Conference

First UNESCO conference on the Mechanotransduction of living cells

SLU Authors

• Engström, Wilhelm

  • Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Rising, Anna

  • Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Stark, Margareta

  • Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Grip, Stefan

  • Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Johansson, Jan

  • Department of Molecular Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hedhammar, My

  • Department of Molecular Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Veterinary Science
Animal and Dairy Science

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/10940