THE STRUCTURE OF TUSSAH SILK FIBROIN (WITH A NOTE ON THE STRUCTURE OF BETA-POLY-L-ALANINE)
THE STRUCTURE OF TUSSAH SILK FIBROIN (WITH A NOTE ON THE STRUCTURE OF BETA-POLY-L-ALANINE)
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DOI:
10.1107/s0365110x5500217x
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发表时间:
1955-01-01
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通讯作者:
PAULING, L
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作者:
MARSH, RE;COREY, RB;PAULING, L
A detailed structure for commercial silk fibroin (Bombyx mot/) has recently been formulated in these Laboratories (Marsh, Corey & Pauling, 1955). A prominent feature of the structure of Bombyx mori silk fibroin is the occurrence of glyeine as alternate residues along the polypeptide chains. Another form of silk fibroin is that derived from Tussah silk (commonly called wild silk). Previous investigators (Kratky & Kuriyama, 1931; Trogus & Hess, 1933) have shown that the X-ray diffraction pattern of Tussah silk fibroin, although having many features in common with the pattern obtained from Bombyx mori, is significantly different in several respects. Its chemical composition also differs from that of Bombyx mori in a very significant way (Table 1). The most striking differences are in the relative amounts of glycine and alanine. In particular, the amount of glycine in Tussah silk (26.6 residue%) is