Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Dent Res. 2008 Aug;87(8):701–709. doi: 10.1177/154405910808700808

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Dopa side-chains in mfp-1s coordinate both soluble and insoluble metal oxides. Lee et al. (2006) have shown that the coordinate chelate bond between Dopa and a TiO2 surface has half the interaction energy of a covalent bond, but re-forms spontaneously following breakage.