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ArticleScience advances2020

Phase-dependent redox insulation in mussel adhesion.

Eric Valois, Razieh Mirshafian, J Herbert Waite

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Identification and characterization of a wet adhesive protein extracted fromProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Catechol redox maintenance in mussel adhesion.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2025
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  10. The cement of the tube-dwelling polychaeteBeilstein journal of nanotechnology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eric ValoisBiomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6824-2933
Razieh MirshafianMarine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2480-6450
J Herbert WaiteBiomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4683-7386
University of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

Translating Mussel AdhesionR01DE018468 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI WAITE, JOHN HERBERT · 2008 to 2017
$4.2M
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE0123NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE018468
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Catecholic 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl-l-alanine (Dopa) residues in mussel foot proteins (mfps) contribute critically to mussel (

Identifiers

PMID32537498
PMCPMC7269650
OpenAlexW3033689906

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