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The Influence of Molecular Structure on Apatite Adsorption
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Abstract
The hydroxyapatite (HAP) adsorption of salivary statherin, cystatins, proline-rich proteins and histatins has been compared to the influence of these molecules on HAP crystallization in supersaturated solution. This may yield, in many cases, information about protein conformation in the adsorbed state. The results of studies involving both parent molecules and their fragments, indicated that statherin binds to HAP primarily with a 2–5 residues segment in the N-terminal part while the cystatins and proline-rich proteins bind through a segment 2–3 times larger.
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