A comparison of the composition of silk
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Catherine L. Craig; Michael Hsu; David Kaplan; N.E. Pierce
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Proteins that are highly expressed and composed of amino acids that are costly to synthesize are likely to place a greater drain on an organism's energy resources than proteins that are composed of ingested amino acids or ones that are metabolically simple to produce. Silks are highly expressed prot