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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Aug 28;53(42):11253–11256. doi: 10.1002/anie.201406858

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(a) A mussel (Mytilus californianus) attached to the substratum by a byssus - essentially a bundle of adhesive-tipped threads shown in. (b) Cartoon of one of the adhesive tips or plaques in a) enlarged to show the approximate location of known Mfps. (c) Hopp and Woods mean hydropathy values of proteins per amino acid using ExPaSy tools. Hopp and Woods hydropathy[8] was selected over others because it is based on experimentally determined partition coefficients of amino acids including Dopa.[9]