Purification and self-assembly of natural coiled-coil proteins from marine snail pugilina cochlidium egg case membranes

• Main Author: Loke, Jun Jie
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51463
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Pugilina cochlidium is a marine snail that can lay a string of egg capsules made of an elastic biomaterial that encapsulates and protects the embryos from the harsh marine environments. Previous studies on Busycotypus canaliculatus, a different species of marine snail has found that the egg capsule...