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Degree of biomimicry of artificial spider silk spinning assessed by NMR spectroscopy.

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Andreas,  L. B.
Research Group of Solid State NMR Spectroscopy-2, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Otikovs, M., Andersson, M., Jia, Q., Nordling, K., Meng, Q., Andreas, L. B., et al. (2017). Degree of biomimicry of artificial spider silk spinning assessed by NMR spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 56(41), 12571-12575. doi:10.1002/anie.201706649.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002E-2EC2-0
Abstract
Biomimetic spinning of artificial spider silk requires that the terminal domains of designed minispidroins undergo specific structural changes in concert with the β-sheet conversion of the repetitive region. Herein, we combine solution and solid-state NMR methods to probe domain-specific structural changes in the NT2RepCT minispidroin, which allows us to assess the degree of biomimicry of artificial silk spinning. In addition, we show that the structural effects of post-spinning procedures can be examined. By studying the impact of NT2RepCT fiber drying, we observed a reversible beta-to-alpha conversion. We think that this approach will be useful for guiding the optimization of artificial spider silk fibers.