Hydrophobin - The Raincoat of the Fungi
The raincoat on a fungus is not a garment, it is a substance called "Hydrophobin". You will find this protein on the skin of fungi where its job is simply to repel water droplets, to make them roll off the fungi. Because this trait is not only useful to fungi, but can also be used for technical applications as well, scientists from BASF have become interested in Hydrophobin. Using a biotechnological process, they are the first who managed to produce Hydrophobin in a large scale.
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