Artificial Egg Stalks Made of a Recombinantly Produced Lacewing Silk Protein

被引:17
作者
Bauer, Felix [1 ]
Scheibel, Thomas [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bayreuth, Lehrstuhl Biomat, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
关键词
ss sheets; biomimetic systems; fiber proteins; lacewing; silk; SPIDER DRAGLINE SILK; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; FIBER; ELEMENTS; BETA;
D O I
10.1002/anie.201200591
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Rigid threads: Lacewings protect their eggs from predators by laying them on small stalks (see picture). The stalks have good mechanical properties and, unlike most other silks, a cross β structure. An artificial egg stalk was produced using a designed recombinant variant of a sequenced lacewing egg stalk protein, and it attained 90 of the tensile strength of a natural egg stalk. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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页码:6521 / 6524
页数:4
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