CONFORMATION CHARACTERIZATION OF BOMBYX-MORI SILK FIBROIN IN THE SOLID-STATE BY HIGH-FREQUENCY C-13 CROSS POLARIZATION MAGIC ANGLE SPINNING NMR, X-RAY-DIFFRACTION, AND INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY
CONFORMATION CHARACTERIZATION OF BOMBYX-MORI SILK FIBROIN IN THE SOLID-STATE BY HIGH-FREQUENCY C-13 CROSS POLARIZATION MAGIC ANGLE SPINNING NMR, X-RAY-DIFFRACTION, AND INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY
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DOI:
10.1021/ma00152a009
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
SAITO, H
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作者:
ASAKURA, T;KUZUHARA, A;SAITO, H
We recorded X-ray diffraction, 13C CP-MAS NMR, and infrared spectra of silk fibroin samples from Bombyx mori in the solid state, prepared under different conditions, in order tocompare conformational features obtained by the respective methods. These three methods provided consistent data as to the presence of the most stable silk II form. Silk I and random-coil forms were distinguishable only by the extent of line broadening in 13C NMR peaks, although the chemical shifts are the same. The most obvious advantage of the 13C CP-MAS NMR approach is that this method is intrinsically nondestructiveand very convenient for evaluation of the relative proportion of silk I and II forms in the same sample. Wefound that powder formation even at liquid-nitrogen temperature caused a change from silk I to random-coil form, although theamount of silk II form remainsunchanged duringthis procedure. In view of the sample preparation conditions as well as the similarity of the 13C chemical shifts and infrared spectra between the silk I and random-coil forms, it is plausible that the random-coil form is a mixture of silk I type forms whose long-rangecrystalline packing is distorted to the extent togive halo X-ray diffraction.