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ArticleBiomacromolecules2020

Structural Diversity of Native Major Ampullate, Minor Ampullate, Cylindriform, and Flagelliform Silk Proteins in Solution.

Imke Greving, Ann E Terry, Chris Holland, Maxime Boulet-Audet, Isabelle Grillo, Fritz Vollrath, Cedric Dicko

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Article in Biomacromolecules, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Imke GrevingInstitute of Materials Research, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany.
Ann E TerryMAX IV Laboratory, 224 84 Lund, Sweden.
Chris HollandDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0913-2221
Maxime Boulet-AudetDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom.
Isabelle GrilloInstitut Laue Langevin, 38000 Grenoble, France.
Fritz VollrathDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SZ, United Kingdom.
Cedric DickoPure and Applied Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6377-3500
University of Oxford · GBHelmholtz-Zentrum Hereon · DEInstitut Laue-Langevin · FRLund University · SEMAX IV Laboratory · SEUniversity of Sheffield · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The foundations of silk spinning, the structure, storage, and activation of silk proteins, remain highly debated. By combining solution small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering (SANS and SAXS) alongside circular dichroism (CD), we reveal a shape anisotropy of the four principal native spider silk feedstocks from

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SilkSpidersAnimalsCircular DichroismMolecular ConformationScattering, Small AngleX-Ray DiffractionSilk

Identifiers

PMID32551521
PMCPMC7421538
OpenAlexW3036010245

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