Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
Spider silks have remarkable physical properties due to a combination of strength and elasticity. In addition, spider silks are biocompatible and biodegradable. Our laboratory has shown that the strength products, such as fibers, produced with other silk proteins correlates with the size of the silk protein. The aciniform silk (AcSp1), has been shown to produce the thinnest and strongest fibers of all the natural spider silks. Aciniform silk is composed of a nonrepetitive amino-terminal region, 14 repeats of approximately 200 amino acids each, and a nonrepetitive carboxy-terminal region. We have been able to produce different versions of these genes encoding for 8, 10, 12, and 14 repeats. In addition, we were able to express these large proteins in E. coli.
Recommended Citation
Weller, P. Tate; Briggs, Samuel T.; Oliveira, Paula F.; Agarraberes, Fernando A.; and Lewis, Randy V., "From Spider to Silk: Constructions of Synthetic Genes of the Acinoform Spider Silk Protein (AcSp1)" (2016). Biology Posters. Paper 28.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/biology_posters/28