Fibrous Proteins: Structures and Mechanisms (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. Fibrous Protein Structures: Hierarchy, History and Heroes 2. Coiled-coil design: updated and upgraded 3. Functional and Structural Roles of Coiled Coils 4. The Structure and Topology of -Helical Coiled Coils 5. Structural Transition of Trichocyte Keratin Intermediate Filaments During Development in the Hair Follicle 6. Crystallographic studies of intermediate filament proteins 7. Lessons from animal models of cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins 8. Filamentous Structure of Hard beta-Keratins in the Epidermal Appendages of Birds and Reptiles 9. Tropomyosin Structure, Function, and Interactions: A Dynamic Regulator 10. Titin and Nebulin in Thick and Thin Filament Length Regulation 11. Myosin and Actin Filaments in Muscle: Structures and Interactions 12. Dystrophin and spectrin, two highly dissimilar sisters of the same family 13. Fibrin Formation, Structure and Properties 14. Fibrillar collagens 15. Recombinant structural proteins and their use in future materials 16. Properties of engineered and fabricated silks 17. Biomaterials Made from Coiled Coil Peptides 18. Bioengineered Collagens