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Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

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Dodging the crisis of folding proteins with knots

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Simulations of Knotting in Confined Circular DNA

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Tightening of Knots in Proteins

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Stabilizing effect of knots on proteins

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