Spider Silk-CBD-Cellulose Nanocrystal Composites: Mechanism of Assembly

Spider Silk-CBD-Cellulose Nanocrystal Composites: Mechanism of Assembly

The fabrication of cellulose-spider silk bio-nanocomposites comprised of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and recombinant spider silk protein fused to a cellulose binding domain (CBD) is described. Silk-CBD successfully binds cellulose, and unlike recombinant silk alone, silk-CBD self-assembles into mi...

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Main Authors: Sigal Meirovitch, Zvi Shtein, Tal Ben-Shalom, Shaul Lapidot, Carmen Tamburu, Xiao Hu, Jonathan A. Kluge, Uri Raviv, David L. Kaplan, Oded Shoseyov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Subjects:
spider silk
cellulose nanocrystals
cellulose binding domain
nanocomposite
biomaterials
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/17/9/1573

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