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Mussel foot proteins support higher-yield synthetic spider silk

04/05/2023

A team of researchers led by Fuzhong Zhang, a professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at the University of Washington in St Louis, has found a way to use sticky mussel foot protein fragments to generate higher-yield synthetic spider silk proteins.

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