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Figure 11.
(a) The potential of pair interactions between apoferritin molecules.
Dashed line
: in the
presence of [Na
P
+
P
] = 0.20 M according to a hydration force model.
Solid line
: schematic representation
of the interaction potential after the addition of Cd
P
2+
P
. (b) Schematic representation of the build-up of
counterions at the surface of the protein molecules that leads to the hydration repulsion reflected in (a).
Figure 12.
Schematic of formation of a trimer of molecules with an interaction potential consisting of
long-range repulsion and short-range attraction, highlighted on
U
(
r
) plot at far right. Contours around
zoomed-in dimer represent repulsive potential lines in the plane of the image.
