ArticleScientific reports2013
A new class of animal collagen masquerading as an insect silk.
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- Comparative gut proteomics study revealing adaptive physiology of Eurasian spruce bark beetle,Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Fluorescence-based characterisation of selected edible insect species: Excitation emission matrix (EEM) and parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis.Current research in food science · 2021Article
- The protein and volatile components of trail mucus in the Common Garden Snail, Cornu aspersum.PloS one · 2021Article
- Three Decades of Research on Recombinant Collagens: Reinventing the Wheel or Developing New Biomedical Products?Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Spider silk proteome provides insight into the structural characterization of Nephila clavipes flagelliform spidroin.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- More than one way to spin a crystallite: multiple trajectories through liquid crystallinity to solid silk.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Biocompatibility of Novel Type I Collagen Purified from Tilapia Fish Scale: An In Vitro Comparative Study.BioMed research international · 2015Article
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Abstract
Collagen is ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom, where it comprises some 28 diverse molecules that form the extracellular matrix within organisms. In the 1960s, an extracorporeal animal collagen that forms the cocoon of a small group of hymenopteran insects was postulated. Here we categorically demonstrate that the larvae of a sawfly species produce silk from three small collagen proteins. The native proteins do not contain hydroxyproline, a post translational modification normally considered characteristic of animal collagens. The function of the proteins as silks explains their unusual collagen features. Recombinant proteins could be produced in standard bacterial expression systems and assembled into stable collagen molecules, opening the door to manufacture a new class of artificial collagen materials.
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