Hierarchical Assembly of Tough Bioelastomeric Egg Capsules is Mediated by a Bundling Protein
Marine snail egg capsules are shock-absorbing bioelastomers made from precursor “egg case proteins” (ECPs) that initially lack long-range order. During capsule formation, these proteins self-assemble into coiled-coil filaments that subsequently align into microscopic layers, a multiscale process whi...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2017
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83203 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42459 |