. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 12.

Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Chem. 2021 Oct 5;5(11):753–772. doi: 10.1038/s41570-021-00325-x

Table 1 ∣.

Mechanical parameters of resilin and resilin-mimicking materials

Protein/polymer	Crosslinks	Resilience (%)	Strength (MPa)	Extensibility (%)
Resilin	–	>95	>1	190
Resilin-like polypeptides	Tyr–Tyr^53,55,56	92–97.7	0.07–0.1	277–600
	Lys–Gln²²⁸
	Lys–HMP⁵⁷
	Cys–vinyl⁵⁸
	Lys–NHS⁵⁹
Resilin-mimicking hydrogels	Thiol–vinyl⁶⁰	80–97	0.02–1.75	300–2,829
	Reactive micellar crosslinks^61-63
	Inorganic nanoparticle crosslinks^64,65
Resilin-mimicking elastomers	Functionalized cellulose isoprene crosslinks⁶⁷	93–98	0.8–1.1	50–180
Resilin-mimicking elastomers	Furan–maleimide⁶⁸

HMP, hydroxymethylphosphine; NHS, N-hydroxysuccinimide.