An Engineered Spider Silk Protein Forms Microspheres

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Slotta, Ute ; Rammensee, Sebastian ; Gorb, Stanislav ; Scheibel, Thomas:
An Engineered Spider Silk Protein Forms Microspheres.
In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Bd. 47 (2008) Heft 24 . - S. 4592-4594.
ISSN 1521-3773
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200800683

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Abstract

Fibrils or spheres? Spider silk proteins belong to the class of natively unfolded proteins. Depending on the experimental conditions, these proteins form nanofibrils or microspheres following two distinct aggregation pathways. A detailed model describes the assembly mechanism of spider silk proteins into microspheres.