Adhesive properties of adsorbed layers of two recombinant mussel foot proteins with different levels of DOPA and tyrosine

• Main Authors: Bilotto, Pierluigi, Labate, Cristina, De Santo, Maria P., Deepankumar, Kanagavel, Miserez, Ali, Zappone, Bruno
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Peptides and Proteins; Monomers
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151873
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Using a surface forces apparatus and an atomic force microscope, we characterized the adhesive properties of adsorbed layers of two recombinant variants of Perna viridis foot protein 5 (PVFP-5), the main surface-binding protein in the adhesive plaque of the Asian green mussel. In one variant, all ty...