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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2015 Feb 17;51:51–57. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.01.033

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Studying interactions between collagen and the adhesive proteins from mussels. (a) In mussel byssal threads, collagens known as preCOLs mediate the transfer of load between the mussel plaque and the thread. PreCOLs come within a few nm of the mica surface, thus may bind directly to adhesive mfps such as mfp-3 (blue circles) and mfp-5 (green circles) [11]. (b) The symmetric SFA configuration used in this study to investigate collagen/mfp-3 interactions.