Micro and nano-scale compartments guide the structural transition of silk protein monomers into silk fibers

Micro and nano-scale compartments guide the structural transition of silk protein monomers into silk fibers

By following morphological changes in supramolecular assemblies of silkworm silk, the authors find that while the initial steps of secretion and storage inside the silk gland follow the micelle theory of silk assembly, a phase rearrangement occurs inside microscale spherical structures that gives ri...

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Main Authors: D. Eliaz, S. Paul, D. Benyamin, A. Cernescu, S. R. Cohen, I. Rosenhek-Goldian, O. Brookstein, M. E. Miali, A. Solomonov, M. Greenblatt, Y. Levy, U. Raviv, A. Barth, U. Shimanovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35505-w

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35505-w

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