Fibrous Proteins

The Structure of Animal Silks.- The Structure of Collagen.- The Structure of Elastin.- The Structure of Resilin.- The Structure of Keratin.- General Methods to Produce and Assemble Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins.- Self-Assembly of Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin.- Synthesis and Assembly of Recombinant Collagen.- Recombination and Purification of Elastin-Like Polypeptides.- Methods to Synthesize and Assemble Recombinant Keratins.- Preparation of Amyloid Fibers Using Recombinant Technology.- Molecular Biology Methods to Construct Recombinant Fibrous Protein.- Isolation of Nanofibrils from Animal Silks.- Gelation Methods to Assemble Fibrous Proteins.- Spinning Methods Used for The Construction of One- and Two-Dimensional Fibrous Protein Materials.- Three-Dimensional Printing to Build Fibrous Protein Architectures.- The Methods of Using Synchrotron FTIR Microspectroscopy to Understand the Conformation of Single Animal Silk Fibers.- The Protocol of Using FTIR Imaging to Investigate Silk Fibroin-Based Materials.- Secondary Structure Analysis of Single Silk Nanofibril through Infrared Nanospectroscopy.- The Method of Using Raman Spectroscopy to Understand the Conformation of Fibrous Proteins.- Structural Characterization of Silk Fibers by Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering.- Structural Characterization of Silk Fibers by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering.