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THE silk thread extruded by the lava of the silk moth of commerce (Bombyx mori) consists of two parts: a central core of two filaments of the protein fibre ‘fibroin’, surrounded and cemented together by a layer of protein material called ‘sericin’.
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SHAW, J., SMITH, S. Amino-acids of Silk Sericin. Nature 168, 745 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168745a0
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