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BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 661-665Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm0342685
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Using DECODER (direction exchange with correlation for orientation distribution evaluation and reconstruction) NMR, we probe the orientations of carbonyl carbons in [1-C-13]glycine-labeled dragline silk under conditions of varying strain and fiber draw rate. A model-specific reconstruction of the molecular orientation distribution incorporating beta sheets and polyglycine II helices indicates that the structures' alignment along the fiber can be described by a pair of Gaussian distributions with full width at half-maxima of 20 and 68degrees and similar to45 and similar to55% relative contributions to the signal intensity. The alignment along the fiber was found to change appreciably when the drawing tension on the fiber was relaxed in a sample drawn at 4 cm/s while little change was observed in a sample drawn at 2 cm/s. The degree of alignment along the fiber was found to increase with fiber draw rate.
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