Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Biomaterials

Redox and adhesion on the rocks

  • News & Views
  • Published:

From Nature Chemical Biology

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Man-made adhesives cannot match the ability of a marine mussel to affix itself to a wet rock. New insights help to describe the protein-surface bonding central to this feat of biological materials engineering.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Figure 1: Mussels making glue with dopa proteins.

References

  1. Yu, J. et al. Nat. Chem. Biol. 7, 588–590 (2011).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  2. Lee, H., Scherer, N.F. & Messersmith, P.B. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 12999–13003 (2006).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Akemi Ooka, A. & Garrell, R.L. Biopolymers 57, 92–102 (2000).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Connor, P.A., Dobson, K.D. & McQuillan, A.J. Langmuir 11, 4193–4195 (1995).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Mian, S.A. et al. J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 20793–20800 (2010).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Sever, M.J., Weisser, J.T., Monahan, J., Srinivasan, S. & Wilker, J.J. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 43, 448–450 (2004).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Wilker, J.J. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 14, 276–283 (2010).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Zhao, H., Sun, C.J., Stewart, R.J. & Waite, J.H. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 42938–42944 (2005).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Burkett, J.R., Hight, L.M., Kenny, P. & Wilker, J.J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 12531–12533 (2010).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. Stewart, R.J., Ransom, T.C. & Hlady, V.J. J. Polym. Sci. B Polym. Phys. 49, 757–771 (2011).

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Jonathan J. Wilker is in the Department of Chemistry and School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.,

    Jonathan J Wilker

Authors
  1. Jonathan J Wilker
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jonathan J Wilker.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The author declares no competing financial interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Wilker, J. Redox and adhesion on the rocks. Nat Chem Biol 7, 579–580 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.639

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.639

  • Springer Nature America, Inc.

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation