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Silk Structure

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Silk Protein Structure
Silk (2slk.pdb) is a fibrous b-sheet protein. This model shows a segment of the b-sheet layers (8 residues/chain).

The starting Display is Sticks; the Color is Shapely.
(The magenta groups are not amino acids.)
The amino and carboxyl termini of subunit A are labeled.
[Figure not in Campbell]

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