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Spider Dragline Silk Applicationsin Polymer Science
Hieu T. NhanApril 12, 2004
Duke University
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Outline
•Spiders and Spider Silk•Polymers (Polycarbonate)•Applications
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Introduction
•Spider silk evolution—400 million years–Tough stuff!–Entire genetic makeup unknown.–Bulk production?
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Spider Anatomy
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Spider Anatomy
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Silk Composition
•All proteins are made of amino acids–Spider silk is composed primarily of the
three simplest forms of amino acids:(1) Glycine
(2) Alanine
(3) Serine
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Silk Composition
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Silk Composition
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Silk Composition
•α-helices primarily combined with other materials
– Provides only some of the needed properties
•β-sheets constitute the majority of silk proteins
– Provides most of the needed properties
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Sequencing
•Various silk proteins studied and four types of sharedamino acid motifs have been found
– (1) GPGGX/GPGQQ
– (2) GGX
– (3) poly-Ala/poly-Gly-Ala
– (4) ‘spacer’ sequence which do not conform totypical amino acid sequences of spider silks
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Sequencing
•GPGGX/GPGQQ
– Suggested conformation: β-spiral
– Spring-like structure gives the elastic properties
– Only ampullate and flagelliform silks contain thissequence
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•poly-Ala
• Suggested conformation: Linked β-sheet
• Presumed to be the crystalline areas which bindprotein molecules together, providing tensilestrength
•poly-Gly-Ala
• Suggested conformation: Linked β-sheet
• Lower binding energy, therefore lower tensilestrength than poly-Ala
Sequencing
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Sequencing
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Mechanical Properties
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Mechanical Properties
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The material is elastic and onlybreaks at between 2 - 4 times itslength. In the pictures a strand ofa social spider, stegodyphussarasinorum, is shown as normalsize, stretched 5 times and 20times its original length.
Mechanical Properties
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Polycarbonate
•Why PC?
• Polycarbonate is tough.
• Has great optical properties.
• Used in the area of safety (helmets, glasses, etc.)
• Military uses
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•Goal: Increase toughness
– Two ways to do it:
(1) Increase strength
(2) Increase the extensibility
Polycarbonate
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Polycarbonate
•Which do we choose?
Property Spider Silk Polycarbonate
Ultimate Tensile Strength 1.1 GPa 72 GPa
Elongation at yield ~27% ~6%
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Fabrication
•Why not just reproduce spider silk?
• Entire genetic makeup of silk is complicated.
• Optical properties of pure spider silk not optimallike PC.
• Mass production on a mechanical level has notbeen done.
• Nexia, US Army, and……goats?
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Fabrication
•Methods already used in PC to increase toughness
– Increasing molecular weight
– Addition of ‘other’ polymers
Similar idea to Acrylonitrile/butidiene/styrene(ABS) co-polymer system
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Synthesis Proposal
•Addition of known basic amino acid chains to PC
• Choose GPGGX sequence (adds elasticity)
• Synthetic chemistry
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Summary
•Evolution of spider silk occurred over 400 million years
•A lot has been learned, but a lot left unknown
•Synthesis of silk --> mammalian epithelial cells
•Use knowledge to alter other polymeric systems
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Questions?
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References
1) Alberts, Bray, Dennis Bray, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter,Essential Cell Biology, An Introduction to Molecular Biology of the Cell, 1997, Garland Publishing, Inc.,pp. 140-148
2) Bottenbruch, Ludwig, Engineering Thermoplastics—Polycarbonates, Polyacetals, Polyesters, CelluloseEsters, 1996, Hanser/Gardner Publications, Inc., Cincinatti
3) Christopher, William F., Daniel W. Fox, Polycarbonates, 1962, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York
4) Clark, Catherine L., Spiderwebs and Silk—Tracing Evolution from Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes, 2003,Oxford University Press
5) Foelix, Rainer F., Biology of Spiders, 1996, Oxford University Press, pp. 110-149
6) Gosline, J.M., P.A. Guerette, C.S. Ortlepp, K.N. Savage, The Mechanical Design of Spider Silk: FromFibroin Sequence to Mechanical Function, 16 November 1999, Journal of Experimental Biology, 202, 325-3303
7) Hayashi, Cheryl Y., Nichola H. Shipley, Randolph V. Lewis, Hypotheses That Correlate the Sequence,Structure, and Mechanical Properties of Spider Silk Proteins, 1999, International Journal of BiologicalMacromolecules, 24, pp. 271-275
8) Hinman, Michael B. Justin A. Jones, Randolph V. Lewis, Synthetic Spider Silk: A Modular Fiber,September 2000, Tibtech, Vol. 18, pp. 374-379
9) Nieuwenhuys, Ed, Spider Silk, http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Info/spindraad.htm, Accessed 03March 2004, Available
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References
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12) Hayashi, Cheryl Y., Randolph V. Lewis, Molecular Architecture and Evolution of a Modular Spider SilkProtein Gene, 25 February 2000, Science, Vol. 287, pp. 1477-1479
13) Stupp, Samuel I., Paul V. Braun, Molecular Manipulation of Microstructures: Biomaterials, Ceramics, andSemiconductors, 29 August 1997, Science, Vol. 277, pp. 1242-1248
14) Lazaris, Anthoula, Steven Arcidiacono, Yue Huang, Jiang-Feng Zhou, Francois Duguay, Nathalie Chretien,Elizabeth A. Walsh, Jason W. Soares, Costas N. Karatzas, Spider Silk Fibers Spun from SolubleRecombinant Silk Produced in Mammalian Cells, 18 January 2002, Science, Vol. 295, pp. 472-476
15) van Beek, J.D., S. Hess, F. Vollrath, B.H. Meier, The Molecular Structure of Spider Dragline Silk: Foldingand Orientation of the Protein Backbone
16) Witt, Peter N., Charles F. Reed, David B. Peakall, A Spider’s Web—Problems in Regulatory Biology, 1968,Springer Verlag New York Inc.
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Sequencing
•GGX
– Suggested conformation: Helical
– Could serve as link between crystalline β-sheetregions and less rigid protein structures
•‘Spacer’ Sequence
•Suggested conformation: Unknown
•Could serve as alternative structure for pre-drawn, liquidform
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Mechanical Properties