Abstract:Spiders spin high performance fibers that have diverse mechanical properties for movement, prey capture and protection of eggs. To investigate the mechanism by which spiders anchor their fibers to solid matrices, we solubilized the attachment discs from black widow spiders (cob weavers) and performed in‐solution tryptic digests followed by MS/MS analysis to identify novel peptides derived from glue silks. Combining matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionization tandem time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry and cDNA lib… Show more
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