Scientists found that combining the notoriously flimsy anticancer protein p53 with a domain from a spider silk protein resulted in a more stable hybrid that’s more potent and easier for cells to ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model, the team discovered the stretching process aligns the protein chains within the fibers and increases the number of bonds between those chains.

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

Spider silk’s potential A decade ... multiple alanines that form strong, crystalline domains vital for silk’s tensile strength. The other protein is MaSp2, which shares these motifs but ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model, the team discovered the stretching process aligns the protein chains within the fibers and increases the number of bonds between those chains.

So Lewis and his team have had to turn to other methods. Lewis: In terms of the spider silk protein, we've got to find a cheap way to make it. Narrator: Randy and his team took the spider silk ...

The spider silk protein, spidroin, is larger than 300 kDa in size—a huge ... the team focused on two parts of the protein. The sticky terminal domains, which join end to end create long polymers, and ...

The key component of spider silk is a protein called spidrion (2 ... This miniature spidrion is made up of just four tandem repeats and the nonrepetitive C-terminal domain. To maintain solubility, ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model, the team discovered the stretching process aligns the protein chains within the fibers and increases the number of bonds between those chains. Both ...