Elastic fibers are an important component of the extracellular matrix, providing stretch,
resilience, and cell interactivity to a broad range of elastic tissues. Elastin makes up the …

Elastic fibers are an essential component of the extracellular matrix where they provide
structural integrity and elastic recoil in a number of important tissues. A major constituent of …

Despite its theoretical and practical importance, protein folding remains among the most
fundamental unsolved problems in the life sciences. The challenge of predicting folded …

Elastin is a self-assembling, extracellular-matrix protein that is the major provider of tissue
elasticity. Here we review structural studies of elastin from over four decades, and draw …

An emerging class of disordered proteins underlies the elasticity of many biological tissues.
Elastomeric proteins are essential to the function of biological machinery as diverse as the …

Elastin is a major structural protein found in large blood vessels, lung, ligaments, and skin,
imparting the physical properties of extensibility and elastic recoil to these tissues. To …

The phenomenal advancement in regenerative medicines has led to the development of
bioinspired materials to fabricate a biomimetic artificial extracellular matrix (ECM) to support …

Elastomeric proteins are widespread in the animal kingdom, and their main function is to
confer elasticity and resilience to organs and tissues. Besides common functional properties …

Proresilin is the precursor protein for resilin, an extremely elastic, hydrated, cross-linked
insoluble protein found in insects. We investigated the secondary-structure distribution in …

Elastin is known to self-aggregate in twisted-rope filaments. However, an ultrastructural
organization different from the fibrils typical of elastin, but rather similar to those shown by …