HYBRID SILK AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF

• Main Authors: SEZUTSU HIDEKI, NAKAJIMA KENICHI, MITA KAZUHIDE, YONEMURA MASAYUKI, TAMURA TOSHIKI, UCHINO KEIRO, KOJIMA KATSURA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.02.2016
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; SPIRITS; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel silk fiber that can overcome the drawbacks of existing silk.SOLUTION: The inventors construct a method to produce novel silk with modified elongation by hybridizing a fibroin gene derived from a Trichoptera insect (Hydropsyche angustipennis), and a fibroin ge...