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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Soc Rev. 2018 Aug 28;47(17):6486–6504. doi: 10.1039/c8cs00187a

Figure 2. Production of silk protein solutions.

Figure 2

Generating silk protein solutions is essential for their applications as functional materials. Among various silk protein synthesis methods, two methods are industrially scalable: silk fibroin extraction and bioengineered silk fermentation. (a) Schematic of the silk fibroin extraction procedure for the production of B. mori regenerated silk fibroin (RSF). (b) General biosynthesis scheme of bioengineered silks using recombinant DNA technology. Adapted with permission from refs 2 and 19. Copyright 2011 Springer Nature, and 2015 Springer Nature.