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Differential Scanning Fluorimetry provides high throughput data on silk protein transitions.

ABSTRACT: Here we present a set of measurements using Differential Scanning Fluorimetry (DSF) as an inexpensive, high throughput screening method to investigate the folding of silk protein molecules as they abandon their first native melt conformation, dehydrate and denature into their final solid filament conformation. Our first data and analyses comparing silks from spiders, mulberry and wild silkworms as well as reconstituted 'silk' fibroin show that DSF can provide valuable insights into details of silk denaturation processes that might be active during spinning. We conclude that this technique and technology offers a powerful and novel tool to analyse silk protein transitions in detail by allowing many changes to the silk solutions to be tested rapidly with microliter scale sample sizes. Such transition mechanisms will lead to important generic insights into the folding patterns not only of silks but also of other fibrous protein (bio)polymers.

SUBMITTER: Vollrath F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4088128 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Differential Scanning Fluorimetry provides high throughput data on silk protein transitions.

Vollrath Fritz F Hawkins Nick N Porter David D Holland Chris C Boulet-Audet Maxime M

Scientific reports 20140709

Here we present a set of measurements using Differential Scanning Fluorimetry (DSF) as an inexpensive, high throughput screening method to investigate the folding of silk protein molecules as they abandon their first native melt conformation, dehydrate and denature into their final solid filament conformation. Our first data and analyses comparing silks from spiders, mulberry and wild silkworms as well as reconstituted 'silk' fibroin show that DSF can provide valuable insights into details of si ...[more]

PMID: 25004800

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