Primary Structure Characterization and Biosynthesis of Spider Silk Proteins for Multifunctional Biomaterials].

Spider silk is a natural fiber known as "biosteel" with the strongest composite performance, such as high tensile strength and toughness. It is also equipped with excellent biocompatibility and shape memory ability, thus shows great potential in many fields such as biomedicine and tissue engineering. Spider silk is composed of macromolecular spidroin with rich structural diversity. The characteristics of the primary structure of natural spidroin, such as the high repeatability of amino acids in the core repetitive region, the high content of specific amino acids, the large molecular weight, and the high GC content of the spidroin gene, have brought great difficulties in heterologous expression. This review discusses focuses on the relationship between the featured motifs of the microcrystalline region in the repetitive unit of spidroin and its structure, as well as the spinning performance and the heterologous expression. The optimization design for the sequence of spidroin combined with heterologous expression strategy has greatly promoted the development of the biosynthesis of spider silk proteins. This review may facilitate the rational design and efficient synthesis of recombinant spidroin.

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Baoyang Lin, Yongji Xiong, Huiyu Chen, Shengnan Wei, Pengpeng Ren, Cheng Cheng, Bingfang He. Primary Structure Characterization and Biosynthesis of Spider Silk Proteins for Multifunctional Biomaterials]. Sheng wu gong cheng xue bao = Chinese journal of biotechnology. 2024 Mar 25;40(3):687-704

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