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
• 其他作者: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2017
• 主題: Binding sites; Encapsulation
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83203; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42459
• 機構: 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...