ArticleMarine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.)2011
Characterisation of the carbohydrate fraction of the temporary adhesive secreted by the tube feet of the sea star Asterias rubens.
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- Glycans in adhesion and fertilization: histochemical and ultrastructural insights from the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera.Frontiers in zoology · 2026Article
- Glycoproteins Involved in Sea Urchin Temporary Adhesion.Marine drugs · 2023Article
- The Involvement of Cell-Type-Specific Glycans inBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- In the footsteps of sea stars: deciphering the catalogue of proteins involved in underwater temporary adhesion.Open biology · 2022Article
- Sticking Together an Updated Model for Temporary Adhesion.Marine drugs · 2022Article
- Biomaterials and Bioactive Natural Products from Marine Invertebrates: From Basic Research to Innovative Applications.Marine drugs · 2022Review
- Bio-based and bio-inspired adhesives from animals and plants for biomedical applications.Materials today. Bio · 2022Review
- (Un)expected Similarity of the Temporary Adhesive Systems of Marine, Brackish, and Freshwater Flatworms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Integrative Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of the Tube Foot and Adhesive Secretions of the Sea UrchinInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Temporary adhesion of the proseriate flatworm Minona ileanae.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Identifying adhesive components in a model tunicate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- A mechanism for temporary bioadhesion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Proteinaceous secretion of bioadhesive produced during crawling and settlement of Crassostrea gigas larvae.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Tick attachment cement - reviewing the mysteries of a biological skin plug system.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2018Review
- The structural and chemical basis of temporary adhesion in the sea starBeilstein journal of nanotechnology · 2018Article
- Profiling of adhesive-related genes in the freshwater cnidarian Hydra magnipapillata by transcriptomics and proteomics.Biofouling · 2016Article
- Sugary interfaces mitigate contact damage where stiff meets soft.Nature communications · 2016Article
- Adhesive organ regeneration in Macrostomum lignano.BMC developmental biology · 2016Article
- Cloning, Characterization, and Expression Levels of the Nectin Gene from the Tube Feet of the Sea Urchin Paracentrotus Lividus.Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) · 2016Article
- Peroxidase-catalysed interfacial adhesion of aquatic caddisworm silk.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2015Article
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Abstract
In sea stars, adhesion takes place at the level of a multitude of small appendages, the tube feet. It involves the secretion of an adhesive material which, after tube foot detachment, remains on the substratum as a footprint. It was previously reported that the two main organic components of this material are proteins and carbohydrates. The carbohydrate moiety of the adhesive secretion of Asterias rubens was investigated using a set of 16 lectins which were used on sections through tube feet, on footprints, and on the proteins extracted from these footprints. After gel electrophoresis, these proteins separate into eight protein bands which were named sea star footprint proteins (Sfps). Eleven lectins label the tube foot epidermis at the level of the adhesive cells, four react with footprints, and eight with two of the extracted footprint proteins, which are therefore classified as glycoproteins. Sfp-290 appears to bear mostly N-linked oligosaccharides and Sfp-210 principally O-linked oligosaccharides. The outer chains of both glycoproteins enclose galactose, N-acetylgalactosamine, fucose, and sialic acid residues. Another part of the carbohydrate fraction of the footprints would be in the form of larger molecules, such as sialylated proteoglycans. These two types of glycoconjugates are presumably key components of the sea star temporary adhesive providing both cohesive and adhesive contributions through electrostatic interactions by the polar and hydrogen-bonding functional groups of their glycan chains.
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