Recombinant DNA production of spider silk proteins

Spider dragline silk is considered to be the toughest biopolymer on Earth due to an extraordinary combination of strength and elasticity. Moreover, silks are biocompatible and biodegradable protein‐based materials. Recent advances in genetic engineering make it possible to produce recombinant silks in heterologous hosts, opening up opportunities for large‐scale production of recombinant silks for various biomedical and material science applications. We review the current strategies to produce recombinant spider silks.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Microbial Biotechnology

• Publication date

  2013-10-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Materials Science

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  DOI 10.1111/1751-7915.12081PMID 24119078PMCID 3815454
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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