Spider silk membranes: structure, function and artifical synthesis

最近，被命名为Pis的人在开发人工合成特定类型的蜘蛛丝蛋白(蜘蛛蛋白)的有效方法方面取得了进展。该项目的轮换将包括对天然蚕丝进行肽测序和/或从蜘蛛的丝腺中对cDNA进行测序，这些蜘蛛产生的丝绸具有与已被表征的丝绸相当不同的物理特征。最终，我们希望应用我们已经开发的技术来人工合成这些新型丝绸。

Progress has recently been made by the named Pis in developing efficient methods for the artifical synthesis of particular types of spider silk proteins (spidroins). The project rotation will involve peptide sequencing of native silk and/or sequencing of cDNAs from silk glands from spiders that produce silks that have rather different physical characteristics to those that have already been characterised. Ultimately we hope to apply the technology that we have already developed to artificially synthesise these novel silks.