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SUBMITTER: Hwang DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2919147 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hwang Dong Soo DS Zeng Hongbo H Masic Admir A Harrington Matthew J MJ Israelachvili Jacob N JN Waite J Herbert JH
The Journal of biological chemistry 20100621 33
The adhesive plaques of Mytilus byssus are investigated increasingly to determine the molecular requirements for wet adhesion. Mfp-2 is the most abundant protein in the plaques, but little is known about its function. Analysis of Mfp-2 films using the surface forces apparatus detected no interaction between films or between a film and bare mica; however, addition of Ca(2+) and Fe(3+) induced significant reversible bridging (work of adhesion W(ad) approximately 0.3 mJ/m(2) to 2.2 mJ/m(2)) between ...[more]