Nanostructure and molecular mechanics of spider dragline silk protein assemblies

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

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Conformation and Orientation of Proteins in Various Types of Silk Fibers Produced by Nephila clavipes Spiders

(2009) Marie-Eve Rousseau et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Quantitative Correlation between the Protein Primary Sequences and Secondary Structures in Spider Dragline Silks

(2009) Janelle E. Jenkins et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Mechanical Response of Silk Crystalline Units from Force-Distribution Analysis

(2009) Senbo Xiao et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Transmembrane Structures of Amyloid Precursor Protein Dimer Predicted by Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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Deformation and failure of protein materials in physiologically extreme conditions and disease

(2009) Markus J. Buehler et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Progress and challenges in protein structure prediction

(2008) Yang Zhang   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The role of proline in the elastic mechanism of hydrated spider silks

(2008) K. N. Savage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Determining Secondary Structure in Spider Dragline Silk by Carbon−Carbon Correlation Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

(2008) Gregory P. Holland et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Geometric Confinement Governs the Rupture Strength of H-bond Assemblies at a Critical Length Scale

(2008) Sinan Keten et al.   NANO LETTERS

Assembly mechanism of recombinant spider silk proteins

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Molecular dynamics simulations of alanine rich β-sheet oligomers: Insight into amyloid formation

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