CONSIDERABLE doubt exists as to whether silk fibroin (Bombyx mori) contains a small amount of cystine or whether this amino-acid is entirely absent. Apart from any biological significance ...

According to Juthamas Ratanavaraporn, director of Chulalongkorn University’s biomedical engineering research center, silk fibroin — one of the natural proteins that gives silk its incredible ...

While several proteases are capable of degrading soluble silk fibroin proteins, certain spiders produce a digestive protease that can degrade solid major ampullate silk fibers in vitro. Because this ...