A complete understanding of barnacle adhesion remains elusive as the process occurs within and beneath the confines of a rigid calcified shell. Barnacle cement is mainly proteinaceous and several individual proteins have been identified in the hardened cement at the barnacle-substrate interface.We r...
Ixodes scapularis and other hard ticks are long-term blood feeders. This feeding behavior is facilitated by a tick secreted bio adhesive (tick cement) that attaches tick mouthparts to skin tissue and prevents the host from dislodging the tick from its feeding site. Understanding tick cement formatio...
Proteins were extracted from the cement glands of the cypird barnacle Megabalanus volcano. And thenproteins were subjected to in-solution digestion and analyzed by LTQ-Orbitrap Elite coupled to an Easy-nLC.
Germ granules are large cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein complexes that emerge in the germline to participate in RNA regulation. The two most prominent germ granules are the intermitochondrial cement (IMC) in meiotic spermatocytes and the chromatoid body (CB) in haploid round spermatids, both functiona...
