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Metabolic Modeling Of Spider Silk Production In E. Coli, Sarah Allred
Metabolic Modeling Of Spider Silk Production In E. Coli, Sarah Allred
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Spider silk has the potential to be a useful biomaterial due to its high tensile strength and elasticity. It is also biocompatible and biodegradable, making it useful for wound dressings and sutures, tissue and bone scaffolds, vessels for drug delivery, and ligament and tendon replacements. In some studies where spider silk has been used to grow cells, the silk has promoted more cell growth than the control. However, it is difficult to obtain the high volume of silk needed for these undertakings on a large scale. Spiders are territorial and cannibalistic, so they cannot be easily farmed. Therefore, spider silk …