Spider Silk Biology for Biomedical Applications
Anna Rising Lab

Tina Arndt, Kristaps Jaudzems, Olga Shilkova, Juanita Francis, Mathias Johansson, Peter R. Laity, Cagla Sahin, Urmimala Chatterjee, Nina Kronqvist, Edgar Barajas-Ledesma, Rakesh Kumar, Gefei Chen, Roger Strömberg, Axel Abelein, Maud Langton, Michael Landreh, Andreas Barth, Chris Holland, Jan Johansson & Anna Rising . Nat Commun 13, 4695 (2022)

Tina Arndt, Gabriele Greco, Benjamin Schmuck, Jessica Bunz, Olga Shilkova, Juanita Francis, Nicola M Pugno, Kristaps Jaudzems, Andreas Barth, Jan Johansson, Anna Rising. Advanced Functional Materials. 2022.

Schmuck B, Greco G, Barth A, Pugno NM, Johansson J. Rising A. High yield production of a super-soluble miniature spidroin for biomimetic high-performance materials. Materials Today. 2021.

Johansson J, Rising A. Doing what spiders cannot – a road map to supreme artificial silk fibers. ACS Nano. 2021 Feb 23;15(2):1952-2959.

Arndt T, Laity PR, Johansson J, Holland C, Rising A. Native-like properties of an artificial spider silk dope. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 2021. Feb 8; 7(2):462-471.

Andersson M, Jia Q, Abella A, Lee X-Y, Landreh M, Purhonen P, Hebert H, Tenje, M, Robinson C V, Meng Q, Plaza GR, Johansson J, Rising A. Biomimetic spinning of artificial spider silk from a chimeric minispidroin. Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Mar;13(3):262-264.

Andersson M, Chen G, Otikovs M, Landreh M, Nordling K, Kronqvist N, Westermark P, Jörnvall H, Knight S, Ridderstråle Y, Holm L, Meng Q, Jaudzems K, Chesler M, Johansson J, Rising A. Carbonic Anhydrase Generates CO2 and H+ That Drive Spider Silk Formation Via Opposite Effects on the Terminal Domains. PLoS Biol. 2014 Aug 5;12(8):e1001921.

Kronqvist N, Sarr M, Lindqvist A, Nordling K, Otikovs M, Venturi L, Pioselli B, Purhonen P, Landreh M, Sjöberg L, Robinson CV, Pelizzi N,Jörnvall H, Hebert H, Jaudzems K, Curstedt T, Rising A, Johansson J. Efficient protein production inspired by how spiders make silk. Nat Commun. 2017. May 23;8:15504.

Rising A, Johansson J. Towards spinning artificial spider silk. Nat Chem Biol. 2015. May; 11(15):309-15.

Askarieh, G., Hedhammar, M., Nordling, K., Saenz, A., Casals, C., Rising A., Johansson J., Knight S.D. Self-assembly of spider silk proteins is controlled by a pH-sensitive relay. Nature. 2010, 465:236-239.