Biomimetic Ultratough, Strong, and Ductile Artificial Polymer Fiber Based on Immovable and Slidable Cross-links

Z Kong, Y Hou, J Gu, F Li, YB Zhu, X Ji, HA Wu… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
… (6,15,17) To reproduce the mechanical and physical properties of spider dragline silks, …
artificial fibers achieved characteristic attributes resembling natural spider silks: mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Orb weaver aggregate glue protein composition as a mechanism for rapid evolution of material properties

NA Ayoub, L DuMez, C Lazo, M Luzaran… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… the glue’s physical properties and molecular components in two … As polymeric substances
made largely of protein, spider silks … We reduced each spidroin sequence to reflect regions of …

Massive horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of nematomorph-driven behavioral manipulation of mantids

T Mishina, MC Chiu, Y Hashiguchi, S Oishi, A Sasaki… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
… all of which showed a high degree of sequence similarity even at the nucleotide level (94.5…
sequence (CDS) alignments, which revealed a remarkably broad distribution of sequence

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities for innovation in bioinformed sustainable materials

D Stuart-Fox, L Ng, L Barner, ATD Bennett… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
… material architectures and properties, linked to environmental … the genetic diversity of spider
silks in over 1000 species. In … of many structural and chemical characteristics contributing …

The Evolution of Foraging Webs is Associated with Young Genes in Araneoidea Spiders

A Jia, T Yang, W Hu, S Ma, Z Zhang… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
… Araneoidea spiders have evolved superior silk properties for … applied two methods to test
for sequence substitution saturation. 1) … By linking gene ages to expression, higher TAI values …

[HTML][HTML] Learning from Nature to Achieve Material Sustainability: Generative AI for Rigorous Bio-inspired Materials Design

RK Luu, S Arevalo, W Lu, B Ni, Z Yang, SC Shen… - 2024 - mit-genai.pubpub.org
… the diversity in both spider web types and silk protein types. … for designing both spider
webs and spidroin sequences.[22],[… MechGPT excelled at knowledge retrieval and connecting

Only kosmotrope anions trigger fibrillization of the recombinant core spidroin eADF4(C16) from Araneus diadematus

V Hovanová, A Hovan, M Humenik, E Sedlák - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… -sheet in the polyalanine region of the spider silk sequence. The findings of this study support
1000 spider silkomes: Linking sequences to silk physical properties. Science Advances, 8(…

Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae)

JA Gorneau, SC Crews… - Insect Systematics …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Tateishi A, Ifuku N, Masunaga H, Sato R, Tsuchiya K, Ohtoshi R, Pedrazzoli D, et al. 1000
Spider silkomes: linking sequences to silk physical properties. Sci Adv. 2022:8(41):eabo6043. …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and Evolutionary Analysis of the Widely Distributed CAP Superfamily in Spider Venom

H Jiang, Y Wang, G Zhang, A Jia, Z Wei, Y Wang - Toxins, 2024 - mdpi.com
spiders have a more diverse variety of CAP proteins than other venomous animals. Our
sequence similarity analysis shows that the spider … [87] (-m MFP -B 1000) with the scorpion as an …

Tyrosine–a structural glue for hierarchical protein assembly

A Maraldo, J Rnjak-Kovacina, C Marquis - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
… self-assembly of silk is primarily guided by the specific sequence of amino … Spider silks are
known to mix spidroin proteins with unique mechanical features to finely tune fiber properties […