Functional diversity of resilin in Arthropoda
Resilin is an elastomeric protein typically occurring in exoskeletons of arthropods. It is composed of randomly orientated coiled polypeptide chains that are covalently cross-linked together at regular intervals by the two unusual amino acids dityrosine and trityrosine forming a stable network with...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Beilstein-Institut
2016-09-01
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Series: | Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.115 |