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SUBMITTER: Colgin MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2143960 | biostudies-other | 1998 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 19980301 3
Spider minor ampullate silk is a strong non-elastic deformably stretchable silk used in web formation. This silk from Nephila clavipes is composed of two proteins, MiSp 1 and 2, whose transcripts are 9.5 and 7.5 kb, respectively, as determined by Northern blots. Both MiSp proteins are organized into a predominantly repetitive region and a small nonrepetitive carboxy terminal region. These highly repetitive regions are composed mainly of glycine and alanine, but also contain tyrosine, glutamine, ...[more]