Coiling and maturation of a high performance fibre in hagfish slime gland thread cells

The defensive slime of hagfishes contains thousands of intermediate filament protein threads(1) that are manufactured within specialized gland thread cells(2–4). The outstanding material properties of these threads, which rival spider dragline silks, make them an ideal model for biomimetic efforts t...

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Published in:Nat Commun
Main Authors: Winegard, Timothy, Herr, Julia, Mena, Carlos, Lee, Betty, Dinov, Ivo, Bird, Deborah, Bernards, Mark, Hobel, Sam, Van Valkenburgh, Blaire, Toga, Arthur, Fudge, Douglas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285696/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24698953
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4534
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