The effect of genetically engineered spi
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Jia Huang; Cheryl Wong; Anne George; David L. Kaplan
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Spider silks exhibit remarkable mechanical properties while dentin matrix protein 1 provides controlled nucleation and hydroxyapatite growth. In the present work, these two attributes were combined via genetic engineering to form a chimera, a clone encoding consensus repeats from the major protein i