"Fibroins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Fibrous proteins secreted by INSECTS and SPIDERS. Generally, the term refers to silkworm fibroin secreted by the silk gland cells of SILKWORMS, Bombyx mori. Spider fibroins are called spidroins or dragline silk fibroins.
| Descriptor ID |
D005349
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.875.500 D12.776.093.750.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Fibroins, Spider- Fibroins, Spider
- Spider Fibroins
- Spidroins
- Dragline Silk Fibroins
- Fibroins, Dragline Silk
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fibroins" by people in Profiles.
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Lyda TA, Wagner EL, Bourg AX, Peng C, Tomaraei GN, Dean D, Kennedy MS, Marcotte WR. A Leishmania secretion system for the expression of major ampullate spidroin mimics. PLoS One. 2017; 12(5):e0178201.
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Parnham S, Gaines WA, Duggan BM, Marcotte WR, Hennig M. NMR assignments of the N-terminal domain of Nephila clavipes spidroin 1. Biomol NMR Assign. 2011 Oct; 5(2):131-3.