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

• 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
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...