Tandem modular proteins underlie the elasticity of natural adhesives, cell adhesion proteins, and muscle proteins. The fundamental unit of elastic proteins is their individually folded modules. Here, we use protein engineering to construct multimodular proteins composed of Ig modules of different mechanical strength. We examine the mechanical properties of the resulting tandem modular proteins ...

Thesis Supervisor: Anthony T. Patera Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering MIT Thesis Supervisor: Liu Gui-Rong Title: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering NUS

1 School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA 2 Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA 3 School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA 5 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State Un...

1National Engineering Laboratory for Electric Vehicles, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, Beijing Institute of Technology, No. 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China 3Electro-Mechanical Engineering Research Group, Engineering Science, University ...