Recombinantly produced spider silk

摘要

The invention relates to novel spider silk protein analogs derived from the amino acid consensus sequence of repeating units found in the natural spider dragline of Nephila clavipes. More specifically, synthetic spider dragline has been produced from E. coli and Bacillus subtilis recombinant expression systems wherein expressions from E. coli is at levels greater than 1 mg full-length polypeptide per gram of cell mass.