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SUBMITTER: Peng Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5098227 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peng Qingfa Q Zhang Yaopeng Y Lu Li L Shao Huili H Qin Kankan K Hu Xuechao X Xia Xiaoxia X
Scientific reports 20161107
Spiders achieve superior silk fibres by controlling the molecular assembly of silk proteins and the hierarchical structure of fibres. However, current wet-spinning process for recombinant spidroins oversimplifies the natural spinning process. Here, water-soluble recombinant spider dragline silk protein (with a low molecular weight of 47 kDa) was adopted to prepare aqueous spinning dope. Artificial spider silks were spun via microfluidic wet-spinning, using a continuous post-spin drawing process ...[more]