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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Monogr Oral Sci. 2011 Jun 23;22:81–96. doi: 10.1159/000327028

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Degradation of amelogenin adsorbed on apatite crystals by MMP-20. Amelogenins were pre-bound to carbonated hydroxyapatite crystals containing different amounts of fluoride (X-axis) and then degraded by MMP-20. Y-axis indicates the percentages of amelogenins degraded by MMP-20 from apatite crystals as compared to the amount of amelogenin initially bound. Note the decreased degradation of amelogenin from the apatite crystal surface as the concentration of fluoride in the apatite increases.