Hierarchical Assembly of Tough Bioelastomeric Egg Capsules is Mediated by a Bundling Protein

• Main Authors: Loke, Jun Jie, Kumar, Akshita, Hoon, Shawn, Verma, Chandra, Miserez, Ali
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Binding sites; Encapsulation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83203; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42459
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Marine snail egg capsules are shock-absorbing bioelastomers made from precursor “egg case proteins” (ECPs) that initially lack long-range order. During capsule formation, these proteins self-assemble into coiled-coil filaments that subsequently align into microscopic layers, a multiscale process whi...