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Fibroin is an
insoluble protein present in silk
produced by
numerous insects, such as the
larvae of
Bombyx mori, and
other moth
genera such as Antheraea...
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woven into textiles. The
protein fiber of silk is
composed mainly of
fibroin and is
produced by
certain insect larvae to form cocoons. The best-known...
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consists mainly of two proteins,
fibroin and sericin. Silk
consists of 70–80%
fibroin and 20–30% sericin;
fibroin being the
structural center of the...
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light fibroin proteins with
approximately 450 and 250
amino acid residues, respectively.
Similar to Lepidoptera,
Trichoptera H and L
fibroin also exhibit...
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tissue infection, drug
delivery systems, and gene therapy. Silk
fibroin: Silk
Fibroin (SF) is
another protein rich
biopolymer that can be
obtained from...
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discovered the
complete sequence and the
protein structure of muga silk
fibroin and
published it in
Nature Scientific Reports. In 2009,
Utpal Bora and...
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protein elastin also has a high
percentage of both
glycine and alanine. Silk
fibroin,
considered a β-keratin, can have
these two as 75–80% of the total, with...
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Examples of
natural polymers include collagen, cellulose, silk
fibroin, keratin,
gelatin and
polysaccharides such as
chitosan and alginate. Examples...
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glycine content is
found in only a few
other fibrous proteins, such as silk
fibroin.
Collagen is not only a
structural protein. Due to its key role in the...
- Smith, S. G. (1960). "Comparative
studies of
fibroins.I. The
amino acid
composition of
various fibroins and its
significance in
relation to
their crystal...
