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Royal Society of Chemistry, Soft Matter, 27(14), p. 5654-5664, 2018
DOI: 10.1039/c8sm00821c
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A new twist on sea silk: the peculiar protein ultrastructure of fan shell and pearl oyster byssus
Journal article published in 2018 by
Delphine Pasche 
,
Nils Horbelt ,
Frédéric Marin ,
Sébastien Motreuil ,
Elena Macías-Sánchez ,
Giuseppe Falini ,
Dong Soo Hwang ,
Peter Fratzl ,
Matthew James Harrington
,
Nils Horbelt ,
Frédéric Marin ,
Sébastien Motreuil ,
Elena Macías-Sánchez ,
Giuseppe Falini ,
Dong Soo Hwang ,
Peter Fratzl ,
Matthew James Harrington
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Abstract
Fan shell and pearl oyster byssus possess an unusual and previously unreported hierarchical structure consisting of globular proteins arranged in a helical superstructure.