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| Mussels tenaciously attach themselves to slippery wet rocks, pilings, or any solid surface.
The proteins they use are remarkably effective adhesive. Because MAP is a biocompatible, biodegradable,
and aldehyde-free environment friendly biomaterial, many efforts with a vision toward the development of new
products for applications in science, medicine, and industry has been made, but failed to commercialize it. |
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| Kollodis' proprietary recombinant protein adhesive technology has overcome these limitations.
Prof. Cha at POSTECH Biotech Center recently isolated and successfully cloned novel mussel adhesive
genes, and the recombinant proteins have strong adhesive properties comparable to the naturally occurring
mussel adhesive proteins secreted by the mussel. His team also successfully developed recombinant
expression system for large scale production of mussel adhesive protein with amazingly low cost and strong
adhesiveness. Currently one gram of this natural MAP extracted from 10,000 mussel is at a cost of $75,000. |
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For this reason, the real limitation for commercialization has been sufficient supply of the adhesive
proteins at economic price. Now the Company can offer the cost-effective mussel protein to who are
interested in applications.
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