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Spider silks: recombinant synthesis, assembly, spinning, and engineering of synthetic proteins

Overview of attention for article published in Microbial Cell Factories, November 2004
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#28 of 1,823)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

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Title
Spider silks: recombinant synthesis, assembly, spinning, and engineering of synthetic proteins
Published in
Microbial Cell Factories, November 2004
DOI 10.1186/1475-2859-3-14
Pubmed ID
Authors

Thomas Scheibel

Abstract

Since thousands of years humans have utilized insect silks for their own benefit and comfort. The most famous example is the use of reeled silkworm silk from Bombyx mori to produce textiles. In contrast, despite the more promising properties of their silk, spiders have not been domesticated for large-scale or even industrial applications, since farming the spiders is not commercially viable due to their highly territorial and cannibalistic nature. Before spider silks can be copied or mimicked, not only the sequence of the underlying proteins but also their functions have to be resolved. Several attempts to recombinantly produce spider silks or spider silk mimics in various expression hosts have been reported previously. A new protein engineering approach, which combines synthetic repetitive silk sequences with authentic silk domains, reveals proteins that closely resemble silk proteins and that can be produced at high yields, which provides a basis for cost-efficient large scale production of spider silk-like proteins.

Mendeley readers

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 328 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 5 2%
Unknown 309 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 65 20%
Student > Bachelor 62 19%
Student > Master 52 16%
Researcher 42 13%
Student > Postgraduate 12 4%
Other 38 12%
Unknown 57 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 79 24%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 60 18%
Materials Science 34 10%
Chemistry 31 9%
Engineering 23 7%
Other 40 12%
Unknown 61 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 December 2021.
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#1,438,453
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Microbial Cell Factories
#28
of 1,823 outputs
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#1,531
of 60,007 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Microbial Cell Factories
#1
of 3 outputs
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