Shear-induced self-assembly of native silk proteins into fibrils studied by atomic force microscopy.

Abstract:

:Noncontact mode atomic force microscopy was used to investigate native silk proteins prepared in different ways. Low protein concentrations revealed that single protein molecules exhibit a simple, round shape with apparent diameters of 20-25 nm. Shearing the native protein solutions after extraction from the gland and prior to drying led to a beads-on-a-string assembly at the nanometer scale. Protein concentration had a significant effect on the morphology of the protein assemblies. At higher protein concentrations, shear-induced alignment into nanofibrils was observed, while lower concentrations lead to the formation of much thinner fibrils with a width of about 8 nm.

journal_name

Biomacromolecules

journal_title

Biomacromolecules

authors

Greving I,Cai M,Vollrath F,Schniepp HC

doi

10.1021/bm201509b

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-03-12 00:00:00

pages

676-82

issue

3

eissn

1525-7797

issn

1526-4602

journal_volume

13

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