TY - JOUR AU - Hauptmann, Valeska AU - Menzel, Matthias AU - Weichert, Nicola AU - Reimers, Kerstin AU - Spohn, Uwe AU - Conrad, Udo PY - 2015 DA - 2015/02/19 TI - In planta production of ELPylated spidroin-based proteins results in non-cytotoxic biopolymers JO - BMC Biotechnology SP - 9 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Spider silk is a tear-resistant and elastic biopolymer that has outstanding mechanical properties. Additionally, exiguous immunogenicity is anticipated for spider silks. Therefore, spider silk represents a potential ideal biomaterial for medical applications. All known spider silk proteins, so-called spidroins, reveal a composite nature of silk-specific units, allowing the recombinant production of individual and combined segments. SN - 1472-6750 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12896-015-0123-2 DO - 10.1186/s12896-015-0123-2 ID - Hauptmann2015 ER -