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Gene Synthesis> | … A rticle To introduce the RKLPDA motif (minTBP-1) into the SF heavy chain (HC), a DNA fragment coding [TS[(AGSGAG)3AS]2RKLPDA]8 was synthesized (GenScript, Piscataway, NJ, USA) and inserted into the BamHI and SalI sites of plasmid pHC-EGFP (Kojima et al., 2007) … | Get A Quote |
Silk fibroin (SF) from Bombyx mori has superior properties as both a textile and a biomaterial, and has been used to functionalize the surfaces of various medical inorganic materials including titanium (Ti). In this study, we endowed SF with reversible binding ability to Ti by embedding a titanium binding motif (minTBP-1 and RKLPDA). Artificial SF proteins were first created by conjugating gene cassettes for SF motif (AGSGAG) and minTBP-1 motif with different ratios, which have been shown to bind reversibly to Ti surfaces in quartz crystal microbalance analyses. Based on these results, the functionalized SF (TiBP-SF) containing the designed peptide [TS[(AGSGAG) AS] RKLPDAS] was prepared from the cocoon of tran... More