Physico-chemical properties of functionally adhesive spider silk nanofibres

Insect cuticular hydrocarbon composition influences their interaction with spider capture threads

(2022) Anna-Christin Joel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cribellate thread production as model for spider’s spinneret kinematics

(2021) Margret Weissbach et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Biocompatible Micron‐Scale Silk Fibers Fabricated by Microfluidic Wet Spinning

(2021) Arne Lüken et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Uncoiling springs promote mechanical functionality of spider cribellate silk

(2020) Dakota Piorkowski et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Spider Silk Biomimetics Programs to Inform the Development of New Wearable Technologies

(2020) Sean J. Blamires et al.   Frontiers in Materials

Spidroin profiling of cribellate spiders provides insight into the evolution of spider prey capture strategies

(2020) Nobuaki Kono et al.   Scientific Reports

Adhesion of spider cribellate silk enhanced in high humidity by mechanical plasticization of the underlying fiber

(2020) Dakota Piorkowski et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Same principles but different purposes: passive fluid handling throughout the animal kingdom

(2019) Anna-Christin Joel et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Accurate and efficient amino acid analysis for protein quantification using hydrophilic interaction chromatography coupled tandem mass spectrometry

(2019) Shrikaar Kambhampati et al.   Plant Methods

Functional trade-offs in cribellate silk mediated by spinning behavior

(2019) Peter Michalik et al.   Scientific Reports

Unraveling the Role of Hydroxyproline in Maintaining the Thermal Stability of the Collagen Triple Helix Structure Using Simulation

(2019) Songcheng Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Exploring the underwater silken architectures of caddisworms: comparative silkomics across two caddisfly suborders

(2019) Paul B. Frandsen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spidroins and Silk Fibers of Aquatic Spiders

(2019) Sandra M. Correa-Garhwal et al.   Scientific Reports

Small behavioral adaptations enable more effective prey capture by producing 3D-structured spider threads

(2019) Caroline C. F. Grannemann et al.   Scientific Reports

Aquatic caddisworm silk is solidified by environmental metal ions during the natural fiber spinning process

(2018) Nicholas N. Ashton et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Multiscale mechanisms of nutritionally induced property variation in spider silks

(2018) Sean J. Blamires et al.   PLoS One

Recombinant Spidroins Fully Replicate Primary Mechanical Properties of Natural Spider Silk

(2018) Christopher H. Bowen et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Silk genes and silk gene expression in the spider Tengella perfuga (Zoropsidae), including a potential cribellar spidroin (CrSp)

(2018) Sandra M. Correa-Garhwal et al.   PLoS One

Spider silk proteome provides insight into the structural characterization of Nephila clavipes flagelliform spidroin

(2018) José Roberto Aparecido dos Santos-Pinto et al.   Scientific Reports

Strength of Recluse Spider’s Silk Originates from Nanofibrils

(2018) Qijue Wang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Toughness-enhancing metastructure in the recluse spider's looped ribbon silk

(2017) S. R. Koebley et al.   Materials Horizons

Hyper-production of large proteins of spider dragline silk MaSp2 by Escherichia coli via synthetic biology approach

(2016) Yan-Xiang Yang et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Morphological adaptation of the calamistrum to the cribellate spinning process in Deinopoidae (Uloboridae, Deinopidae)

(2016) Anna-Christin Joel et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Biomimetic Fibers Made of Recombinant Spidroins with the Same Toughness as Natural Spider Silk

(2015) Aniela Heidebrecht et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cribellate thread production in spiders: Complex processing of nano-fibres into a functional capture thread

(2015) Anna-Christin Joel et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Spiders spinning electrically charged nano-fibres

(2015) K. Kronenberger et al.   Biology Letters

Analysis of the Structure of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin by NMR

(2015) Tetsuo Asakura et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Reversible Assembly of β-Sheet Nanocrystals within Caddisfly Silk

(2014) J. Bennett Addison et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Rate-Dependent Behavior of the Amorphous Phase of Spider Dragline Silk

(2014) Sandeep P. Patil et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Local Structure and Dynamics of Serine in the Heterogeneous Structure of the Crystalline Domain of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin in Silk II Form Studied by 2D 13C–13C Homonuclear Correlation NMR and Relaxation Time Observation

(2014) Keiko Okushita et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Structural characterization of nanofiber silk produced by embiopterans (webspinners)

(2014) J. Bennett Addison et al.   RSC Advances

Brown Recluse Spider's Nanometer Scale Ribbons of Stiff Extensible Silk

(2013) Hannes C. Schniepp et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Spiderweb deformation induced by electrostatically charged insects

(2013) Victor Manuel Ortega-Jimenez et al.   Scientific Reports

Silk and Synthetic Polymers: Reconciling 100 Degrees of Separation

(2011) Chris Holland et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Patterning mechanisms and morphological diversity of spider appendages and their importance for spider evolution

(2010) Matthias Pechmann et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Supercontraction on cribellate spider spiral silk with wet-rebuilt micro-structure

(2010) Xiaoming Liao et al.   Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications

Spider Silk: From Soluble Protein to Extraordinary Fiber

(2009) Markus Heim et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Segmented Nanofibrils of Spiral Silk inUloborus walckenaeriusSpider

(2009) Zhongbing Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Preparation and characterization of the biomineralized zinc oxide particles in spider silk peptides

(2008) Zhongbing Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE