Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Elastomeric Proteins
- 1 Functions of Elastomeric Proteins in Animals
- 2 Elastic Proteins: Biological Roles and Mechanical Properties
- 3 Elastin as a Self-Assembling Biomaterial
- 4 Ideal Protein Elasticity: The Elastin Models
- 5 Fibrillin: From Microfibril Assembly to Biomechanical Function
- 6 Spinning an Elastic Ribbon of Spider Silk
- 7 Sequences, Structures, and Properties of Spider Silks
- 8 The Nature of Some Spiders' Silks
- 9 Collagen: Hierarchical Structure and Viscoelastic Properties of Tendon
- 10 Collagens with Elastin- and Silk-like Domains
- 11 Conformational Compliance of Spectrins in Membrane Deformation, Morphogenesis, and Signalling
- 12 Giant Protein Titin: Structural and Functional Aspects
- 13 Structure and Function of Resilin
- 14 Gluten, the Elastomeric Protein of Wheat Seeds
- 15 Biological Liquid Crystal Elastomers
- 16 Restraining Cross-Links in Elastomeric Proteins
- 17 Comparative Structures and Properties of Elastic Proteins
- 18 Mechanical Applications of Elastomeric Proteins – A Biomimetic Approach
- 19 Biomimetics of Elastomeric Proteins in Medicine
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Elastomeric Proteins
- 1 Functions of Elastomeric Proteins in Animals
- 2 Elastic Proteins: Biological Roles and Mechanical Properties
- 3 Elastin as a Self-Assembling Biomaterial
- 4 Ideal Protein Elasticity: The Elastin Models
- 5 Fibrillin: From Microfibril Assembly to Biomechanical Function
- 6 Spinning an Elastic Ribbon of Spider Silk
- 7 Sequences, Structures, and Properties of Spider Silks
- 8 The Nature of Some Spiders' Silks
- 9 Collagen: Hierarchical Structure and Viscoelastic Properties of Tendon
- 10 Collagens with Elastin- and Silk-like Domains
- 11 Conformational Compliance of Spectrins in Membrane Deformation, Morphogenesis, and Signalling
- 12 Giant Protein Titin: Structural and Functional Aspects
- 13 Structure and Function of Resilin
- 14 Gluten, the Elastomeric Protein of Wheat Seeds
- 15 Biological Liquid Crystal Elastomers
- 16 Restraining Cross-Links in Elastomeric Proteins
- 17 Comparative Structures and Properties of Elastic Proteins
- 18 Mechanical Applications of Elastomeric Proteins – A Biomimetic Approach
- 19 Biomimetics of Elastomeric Proteins in Medicine
- Index
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- Elastomeric ProteinsStructures, Biomechanical Properties, and Biological Roles, pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003