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Spinning of synthetic spider silk-like fibers and ex vivo rheology of spider silk
Spider silk has been hailed as nature's super-fiber based on its mechanical properties. A synthetic analog would have numerous applications, from the textile industry to suspension cables for bridges. This thesis discusses attempts to spin a synthetic spider silk-like material (a concentrated …
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The Synthetic spider silk fibers spun from Pyriform Spidroin 2, a glue silk protein discovered in orb-weaving spider attachment discs
<p>Spider attachrnentdisc silk fibers are spun into a viscous liquid that rapidly solidifies, gluing dragline silk fibers to substrates for locomotion or web construction. Here we report the identification and artificial spinning of a novel attachment disc glue silk fibroin, Pyriform Spidroin 2 …
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The conserved C-terminal domain of spider tubuliform spidroin 1 contributes to extensibility in synthetic fibers
<p>Spider silk is renowned for its extraordinary mechanical properties, having a balance of high tensile strength and extensibility. To date, the majority of studies have focused on the production of dragline silks from synthetic spider silk gene products. Here we report the first mechanical …