Patent ID: 7393926

Claim:
A kit for attaching two surfaces to each other or for coating a surface with a final bioadhesive composition, comprising: a bioadhesive composition comprising an aqueous solution of a bioadhesive polyphenolic protein; and a preparation comprising periodate ions sufficient to produce the final bioadhesive composition comprising at least 1.80 mmol per .qram final composition of periodate ions and a concentration of said bioadhesive polyphenolic protein in the ranqe of 10-50 mg/ml wherein said bioadhesive polyphenolic protein comprises 30-300 amino acids and consists of tandemly linked peptide repeats comprising 3-15 amino acid residues; and at least 6-30% of said 30-300 amino acids are 3,4-dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine (DOPA).