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SUBMITTER: You Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6206087 | biostudies-other | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20181029 1
Spider dragline silk is a remarkable material that shows excellent mechanical properties, diverse applications, biocompatibility and biodegradability. Transgenic silkworm technology was used to obtain four types of chimeric silkworm/spider (termed composite) silk fibres, including different lengths of recombinant Major ampullate Spidroin1 (re-MaSp1) or recombinant Major ampullate Spidroin2 (re-MaSp2) from the black widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus. The results showed that the overall mechanica ...[more]