Definition of Fibroin
1. n. A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.
Definition of Fibroin
1. an insoluble protein [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fibroin
1.
Structural protein of silk, one of the first to be studied with X-ray diffraction. It has a repeat sequence GSGAGA and is unusual in that it consists almost entirely of stacked antiparallel _ pleated sheets.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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