Hagfish Slime Threads

Hagfish Slime Threads

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"Hagfish slime threads form the fibrous fraction of the defensive slime of hagfishes. The threads develop within specialized cells within the slime glands and consist of a dense bundle of the cytoskeletal elements known as intermediate filaments. The threads leave the hagfish's body in a condensed state, but quickly unravel into fine protein strands that are more than 10 cm long..."

ISBN

9789814267403

Publication Date

2012

Publisher

Pan Stanford Publishing

City

Singapore

Disciplines

Cell Biology | Marine Biology

Comments

In Suzi Jarvis and Anika Mostaert(Eds.), The Functional Fold: Amyloid Structures in Nature. Dr. Fudge's chapter begins on page 15.

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