Silverfish silk is formed by entanglement of randomly coiled protein chains

Walker, Andrew; Church, Jeffrey S.; Woodhead, Andrea L.; Sutherland, Tara

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Silverfish silk is formed by entanglement of randomly coiled protein chains

Date

2013

Authors

Walker, Andrew

Church, Jeffrey S.

Woodhead, Andrea L.

Sutherland, Tara

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Silks are semi-crystalline solids in which protein chains are associated by intermolecular hydrogen bonding within ordered crystallites, and by entanglement within unordered regions. By varying the type of protein secondary structure within crystallites a