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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Biomacromolecules. 2013 Aug 27;14(9):3010–3016. doi: 10.1021/bm400447z

Figure 5. Mucin coatings form preferentially on hydrophobic surfaces.

Figure 5

(A) The relative amount of mucins adsorbed to various surfaces was estimated by measuring the fluorescence intensity of coatings generated with fluorescently labeled mucins. Mucins failed to adsorb on glass efficiently, however, treating glass with fluorosilane (FS-glass) reversed this effect and promoted the formation of mucin coatings. Accordingly, mucin-mediated cell-repulsion was observed on polystyrene (B) and on fluorosilane-treated glass (B″), but not on untreated microscope glass slides (B′).