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An16-resilin: An advanced multi-stimuli-responsive resilin-mimetic protein polymer
Acta Biomaterialia, 2014Engineered protein polymers that display responsiveness to multiple stimuli are emerging as a promising class of soft material with unprecedented functionality. The remarkable advancement in genetic engineering and biosynthesis has created the opportunity for precise control over the amino acid sequence, size, structure and resulting functions of such ...
Namita Roy Choudhury +2 more
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Journal of Molecular Biology, 1965
Structures from insects composed of the rubber-like protein resilin have been examined by high- and low-angle X-ray diffraction and in thin sections in the electron microscope. By X-ray diffraction, tendons of pure resilin, air-dried without tension, gave a diffuse unoriented ring at about 4 A.
G.F. Elliott +2 more
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Structures from insects composed of the rubber-like protein resilin have been examined by high- and low-angle X-ray diffraction and in thin sections in the electron microscope. By X-ray diffraction, tendons of pure resilin, air-dried without tension, gave a diffuse unoriented ring at about 4 A.
G.F. Elliott +2 more
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Synthesis and properties of crosslinked recombinant pro-resilin
Nature, 2005 Resilin is a member of a family of elastic proteins that includes elastin, as well as gluten, gliadin, abductin and spider silks. Resilin is found in specialized regions of the cuticle of most insects, providing low stiffness, high strain and efficient energy storage; it is best known for its roles in insect flight and the remarkable jumping ability of
Nicholas E. Dixon +2 more
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Slow viscoelastic response of resilin
Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2018The high importance of resilin in invertebrate biomechanics is widely known. It is generally assumed to be an almost perfect elastomer in different tissues. Whereas mechanical properties of resilin were previously determined mainly in tension, here we aimed at studying its mechanical properties in compression.
Alexander Kovalev +2 more
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Studies on resilin-like gene products in insects
Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2010Putative pro-resilins from 12 Drosophila species are compared with each other and with some pro-resilin-related proteins from other insect species, in an attempt to decide which structural features are likely to be important for the characteristic properties of resilins.
Svend Olav Andersen
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A pH-responsive interface derived from resilin-mimetic protein Rec1-resilin
Biomaterials, 2010In this investigation, for the first time we report the effects of pH on the molecular orientation, packing density, structural properties, adsorption characteristics and viscoelastic behaviour of resilin-mimetic protein rec1-resilin at the solid-liquid interface using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) and surface plasmon ...
Truong, MY +7 more
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Studies on resilin biosynthesis
Journal of Insect Physiology, 1966The cells that deposit resilin in Schistocerca gregaria have been studied to test the hypothesis that this protein is formed by the cross-linking of proresilin by a peroxidase enzyme. A peroxidase, resembling that from horse-radish, is present in these cells, and also in the gut, flight muscle, and cuticle with attached epidermal cells.
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Elastomechanical properties of resilin
Soft Matter, 2011We report the results of the first investigation on the effect of polarity on the elastic properties of an elastomeric protein resilin found in different insects. We simulate tensile tests on four naturally occurring resilin motifs. We repeat simulations on reduced-polarity counterparts of these motifs by setting the charge on each atom to zero ...
Ravi Kappiyoor +3 more
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Biomaterials, 2009
Protein adsorption on surfaces is a fundamental step in many applications. While various methods such as lithography, self assembly using nanoparticles, layer-by-layer attachment, etc. have been employed, here we report fabrication of controlled nanostructure of a new resilin-mimetic elastic protein rec1-resilin using physical approaches.
Dutta, NK +5 more
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Protein adsorption on surfaces is a fundamental step in many applications. While various methods such as lithography, self assembly using nanoparticles, layer-by-layer attachment, etc. have been employed, here we report fabrication of controlled nanostructure of a new resilin-mimetic elastic protein rec1-resilin using physical approaches.
Dutta, NK +5 more
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Resilin: Protein-based elastomeric biomaterials
Acta Biomaterialia, 2014Resilin is an elastomeric protein found in insect cuticles and is remarkable for its high strain, low stiffness, and high resilience. Since the first resilin sequence was identified in Drosophilia melanogaster (fruit fly), researchers have utilized molecular cloning techniques to construct resilin-based proteins for a number of different applications ...
Renay S-C, Su, Yeji, Kim, Julie C, Liu
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