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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Mater Chem B. 2014 Oct 14;2(38):6590–6600. doi: 10.1039/C4TB00878B

Table 1.

The structural conformations in silk derived from deconvoluted amide I FTIR spectra.

Samples Conformation content of silk fibroin
Random β-Sheet Silk I (Type II β-turn) Bends and Turns
SN-H 18.84±1.30 49.08±0.81 7.86±0.65 22.91±2.16
WA-SN-H 7.80±0.62 50.69±1.08 15.88±0.53 22.57±1.89
MA50-SN-H 6.51±0.98 50.35±1.29 15.57±1.08 26.35±1.48
MA80-SN-H 6.01±0.77 58.41±1.32 11.47±0.62 22.27±1.34