Paper Details

Name: Arshdeep Kaur, Kamaljit Kaur
Email: kamal_rajput04@yahoo.com
Country: India

Year: 2019
Volume: Volume-6, Issue-1

Spider silk is stupendous tough biomaterial on earth which consists almost entirely of large proteins. It is biocompatible, biodegradable, has high tensile potency, and flexibility. Spiders produce seven different types of silk for specific function. Dragline silk of the golden skin orb-weavers, Nephila clavipes and Araneus diadematus, are the strongest silk fibres, having high potency and high breaking power. Collecting natural spider silks from webs is a very complicated and prolonged process because of spider’s aggressive nature. Therefore, recombinant DNA technology is the most feasible solution to produce spider silk at large scale. Numbers of biomaterials are created using recombinant spider silk such as films, scaffolds, non-woven meshes, hydrogels etc. Spider silk contains molecules that are known to have antimicrobial and hypoallergenic properties. The complete biodegradability of the spider silk makes it more beneficial than that of man-made fibres.