Silk fibroin

Silkworms spin their cocoon out of fibroin. It packs into tight sheets, which is why silk thread is so strong.

Fun fact

Unwind one silkworm cocoon. You can get a single thread up to a kilometer long.

Words to know

protein
fold

NGSS alignment

MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P05790. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P05790.

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