Silverfish silk is formed by entanglement of randomly coiled protein chains
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2013
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Walker, Andrew
Church, Jeffrey S.
Woodhead, Andrea L.
Sutherland, Tara
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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd
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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
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Keywords: Apterygote; Ctenolepisma; FTIR; Raman spectroscopy; Random coil
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Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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