Characterizing the secondary protein structure of black widow dragline silk using solid-state NMR and X-ray diffraction

Medicine & Life Sciences

• poly(glycyl-alanyl) 100%
• Secondary Protein Structure 96%
• Silk 84%
• X-Ray Diffraction 78%
• Black Widow Spider 60%
• Amino Acid Motifs 41%
• spidroin 1 36%
• spidroin 2 36%
• Solid Bond 33%
• Amino Acids 22%
• Biopolymers 21%
• Alanine 16%
• Glycine 16%
• Serine 15%
• Amino Acid Sequence 15%
• Proteins 6%

Chemical Compounds

• Protein Secondary Structure 86%
• Solid-State NMR 66%
• Black 57%
• Gly-Ala 50%
• X-Ray Diffraction 32%
• Ala-Gly-Ser 30%
• Fiber 20%
• Alanine 15%
• Biopolymer 15%
• Serine 15%
• Amino Acid Sequence 15%
• Glycine 14%
• Secondary Structure 14%
• Chemical Shift 13%
• Acid 11%
• Amorphous Material 11%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Silk 87%
• Nuclear magnetic resonance 78%
• Amino acids 77%
• X ray diffraction 63%
• Proteins 59%
• Nanocrystallites 19%
• Chemical shift 18%
• Biopolymers 15%
• Fibers 14%
• Conformations 13%
• Experiments 3%