Four-stranded coiled-coil elastic protein in the byssus of the giant clam, Tridacna maxima

An elastic protein with a secondary structure distinct from all well-known load-bearing proteins is found in the byssus of the giant clam, Tridacna maxima. The byssus consists of a bundle of hundreds of individual threads, each measuring about about 100 μm in diameter, which exhibit a tendon-like me...

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Main Authors: Miserez, Ali, Li, Youli, Cagnon, Joel, Waite, J. Herbert, Weaver, James C.
Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98939
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12758
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English

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