Research Article

Mineral and Protein-Bound Water and Latching Action Control Mechanical Behavior at Protein-Mineral Interfaces in Biological Nanocomposites

Figure 7

Snapshots taken during the steered molecular dynamics simulation of the pulling of the GS domain in the presence of aragonite mineral proximity at (a) 180 picoseconds and (b) 250 picoseconds.
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