The DOI matches its Crossref record; 5 of the 5 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Mussel adhesion – essential footwork
Open accessAbstract
Robust adhesion to wet, salt-encrusted, corroded and slimy surfaces has been an essential adaptation in the life histories of sessile marine organisms for hundreds of millions of years, but it remains a major impasse for technology. Mussel adhesion has served as one of many model systems providing a fundamental understanding of what is required for attachment to wet surfaces. Most polymer engineers have focused on the use of 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl-l-alanine (Dopa), a peculiar but abundant catecholic amino acid in mussel adhesive proteins. The premise of this Review is that although Dopa does have the potential for diverse cohesive and adhesive interactions, these will be difficult to achieve in synthetic homologs without a deeper knowledge of mussel biology; that is, how, at different length and time scales, mussels regulate the reactivity of their adhesive proteins. To deposit adhesive proteins onto target surfaces, the mussel foot creates an insulated reaction chamber with extreme reaction conditions such as low pH, low ionic strength and high reducing poise. These conditions enable adhesive proteins to undergo controlled fluid–fluid phase separation, surface adsorption and spreading, microstructure formation and, finally, solidification.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Holten-Andersen, N., Harrington, M. J., Birkedal, H., Lee, B. P., Messersmith, P. B., Lee, K. Y. C., & Waite, J. H. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1015862108 · Cited by 1,597
Self-citationAdaptive synergy between catechol and lysine promotes wet adhesion by surface salt displacement
Maier, G. P., Rapp, M. V., Waite, J. H., Israelachvili, J. N., & Butler, A. (2015) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.aab0556 · Cited by 722
Self-citationStrong reversible Fe 3+ -mediated bridging between dopa-containing protein films in water
Zeng, H., Hwang, D. S., Israelachvili, J. N., & Waite, J. H. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1007416107 · Cited by 517
Self-citationMussel protein adhesion depends on interprotein thiol-mediated redox modulation
Yu, J., Wei, W., Danner, E., Ashley, R. K., Israelachvili, J. N., & Waite, J. H. (2011) · Nature Chemical Biology · doi:10.1038/nchembio.630 · Cited by 463
Self-citationSchmitt, L., Ludwig, M., Gaub, H. E., & Tampé, R. (2000) · Biophysical Journal · doi:10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76863-9 · Cited by 171
Cited by
Gan, D., Xing, W., Jiang, L., Fang, J., Zhao, C., Ren, F., Fang, L., Wang, K., & Lu, X. (2019) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09351-2 · Cited by 1,029
Nam, S., & Mooney, D. (2021) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00798 · Cited by 764
Bioinspired underwater adhesives by using the supramolecular toolbox
Hofman, A. H., van Hees, I. A., Yang, J., & Kamperman, M. (2018) · Advanced Materials · doi:10.1002/adma.201704640 · Cited by 652
Recent advances in wet adhesives: Adhesion mechanism, design principle and applications
Cui, C., & Liu, W. (2021) · Progress in Polymer Science · doi:10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101388 · Cited by 557
Bioinspired Underwater Adhesives
Fan, H., & Gong, J. P. (2021) · Advanced Materials · doi:10.1002/adma.202102983 · Cited by 466
Adjacent cationic–aromatic sequences yield strong electrostatic adhesion of hydrogels in seawater
Fan, H., Wang, J., Tao, Z., Huang, J., Rao, P., Kurokawa, T., & Gong, J. P. (2019) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13171-9 · Cited by 379
Recent progress in synthesis and application of mussel-inspired adhesives
Guo, Q., Chen, J., Wang, J., Zeng, H., & Yu, J. (2020) · Nanoscale · doi:10.1039/c9nr09780e · Cited by 370
Fabrication of Bioinspired Hydrogels: Challenges and Opportunities
Fan, H., & Gong, J. P. (2020) · Macromolecules · doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00238 · Cited by 292
Design principles for creating synthetic underwater adhesives
Narayanan, A., Dhinojwala, A., & Joy, A. (2021) · Chemical Society Reviews · doi:10.1039/d1cs00316j · Cited by 193
Mussel-inspired hydrogel tissue adhesives for wound closure
Rahimnejad, M., & Zhong, W. (2017) · RSC Adv. · doi:10.1039/c7ra06743g · Cited by 135
Phase separation and ageing of glycine-rich protein from tick adhesive
Ganar, K. A., Nandy, M., Turbina, P., Chen, C., Suylen, D., Nihoul, E., Pascoe, E. L., van der Beelen, S., Plaum, M., van den Bos, L., et al. (2025) · Nature Chemistry · doi:10.1038/s41557-024-01686-8 · Cited by 42
Liu, J., Song, J., Zeng, L., & Hu, B. (2024) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms25147994 · Cited by 28
Mussel-inspired nanoparticle composite hydrogels for hemostasis and wound healing
Cui, G., Guo, X., Su, P., Zhang, T., Guan, J., & Wang, C. (2023) · Frontiers in Chemistry · doi:10.3389/fchem.2023.1154788 · Cited by 26
Lu, Y., Sharma, B., Soon, W. L., Shi, X., Zhao, T., Lim, Y. T., Sobota, R. M., Hoon, S., Pilloni, G., Usadi, A., et al. (2022) · Advanced Science · doi:10.1002/advs.202201444 · Cited by 23
Oxidized Dopamine Acrylamide Primer to Achieve Durable Resin–Dentin Bonding
Wu, L., Shao, H., Tao, Y., Wu, J., Wang, X., Nian, Q., Zheng, S., Cao, C. Y., Zhao, Y., Zhou, Z., et al. (2023) · Research · doi:10.34133/research.0101 · Cited by 19
Metadata
- Authors
- Waite, J. H.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Biology
- Publisher
- The Company of Biologists
- Published
- 2017-02-15
- Volume
- 220
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 517-530
- ISSN
- 0022-0949 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-9145
- OpenAlex
- W2587914684
- Cited by
- 675
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 20.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
