Figure 10.

The effect of linker molecules for a stabilization of a protein film: (a) Initial configuration in the MC simulations using the standard form of interactions. (b) Stationary configuration in the computer simulation after adding a short-ranged contribution to the particle-particle interactions to mimic the effect of a linker. (c) AFM image of an amylase film stabilized by glutaraldehyde. For a simple comparison with the simulations, a threshold has been applied to the height scale such that protein is black and substrate is white.