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    Spidroins are the main proteins in spider silk. Different types of spider silk contain different spidroins, all of which are members of a single protein...
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    flagelliform spidroins, called Flag; tubuliform spidroins, called TuSp; aciniform spidroins, called AcSp; aggregate spidroins, called AgSp; pyriform spidroins, called...
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    structure. The primary structure is the amino acid sequence of its proteins (spidroin), mainly consisting of highly repetitive glycine and alanine blocks, which...
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    revealed 28 unique genes for the proteins comprising spider silk, known as spidroins. Furthermore, the silk of T. clavipes has the potential to aid in surgeries...
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    Numata, Keiji; Arakawa, Kazuharu (2021). "Darwin's bark spider shares a spidroin repertoire with Caerostris extrusa but achieves extraordinary silk toughness...
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    were found to be 20,167 protein-coding genes, including 55 toxin and 26 spidroin (spider silk) genes. "Taxon details Latrodectus elegans Thorell, 1898"...
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    Researchers report that they succeeded in using a genetically-altered variant of R. sulfidophilum to produce spidroins, the main proteins in spider silk....
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  • in using a genetically altered variant of R. sulfidophilum to produce spidroins, the main proteins in spider silk. 10 July – Scientists report that after...
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    in various species of Pseudomonas Chaplins from Streptomyces coelicolor Spidroin from Trichonephila edulis (spider) (Spider silk) Hydrophobins from Neurospora...
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  • in using a genetically-altered variant of R. sulfidophilum to produce spidroins, the main proteins in spider silk. Scientists assess that the geoengineering...
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  • company had created lines of goats to produce recombinant versions of two spidroins from Nephila clavipes, the golden orb weaver, MaSp1 and MaSp2 When the...
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    A process to mass-produce an analogue called rSP-C33Le by fusion with spidroin has been described. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000168484 – Ensembl...
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    It is an important model species for understanding the evolution of spidroins and understanding orb-weaving behavior. To provide resources for this...
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  • 2016. Her UC Riverside laboratory's work characterized spiders in the spidroin gene family, including how silk is encoded and studying the basis of molecular...
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    grow new tissues. She has patented the synthesised silk (functionalised spidroin). Goodacre created the app Spider in da House. She works to make people...
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  • produce 4RepCT proteins that have a higher cell adhesion than natural spidroin proteins and have varied antimicrobial properties. The second method, chemical...
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  • sulfidophilum can produce the hydrophobic repetitive sequence of major ampullate spidroin (MaSp), the major protein in spider silk. After constructing a plasmid...
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