Description:Content: CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; 1. PROTEINS AT INTERFACES III: INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW ; WILLEM NORDE, THOMAS A. HORBETT, AND JOHN L. BRASH ; 1. PHYSICOCHEMICAL ASPECTS ; 2. OPTIMIZING THE BIOAFFINITY INTERACTION BETWEEN HIS-TAG PROTEINS AND NI(II) ; SURFACE SITES ; LAURA E. VALENTI, ELISA HERRERA, MARIA FERNANDA STRAGLIOTTO, VITOR L. MARTINS, ; ROBERTO M. TORRESI, AND CARLA E. GIACOMELLI ; 3. PROTEIN?BIOCERAMIC INTERACTIONS AT THE INTERFACE ; SUNITA PREM VICTOR AND CHANDRA P. SHARMA ; 4. SOLID-STATE NMR STUDIES OF BIOMINERALIZATION PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS ; ADRIENNE ROEHRICH, JASON ASH, ARIEL ZANE, DAVID L. MASICA, JEFFREY J. GRAY, ; GIL GOOBES, AND GARY DROBNY ; 5. MECHANISMS OF FIBRINOGEN ADSORPTION ON MICA ; ZBIGNIEW ADAMCZYK, MONIKA WASILEWSKA, MALGORZATA NATTICH-RAK, AND ; JAKUB BARBASZ ; 6. AFM-BASED FRICTION FORCE SPECTROSCOPY: A NOVEL METHODOLOGY FOR THE ; STUDY OF THE STRENGTH AND LATERAL DIFFUSION OF PROTEINACEOUS FILMS ; JAVIER SOTRES, LISELOTT LINDH, OLOF SVENSSON, ALEJANDRO BARRANTES, AND ; THOMAS ARNEBRANT ; 7. SIMULTANEOUS VERSUS SEQUENTIAL ADSORPTION OF ?-CASEIN/SDS MIXTURES. ; COMPARISON OF WATER/AIR AND WATER/HEXANE INTERFACES ; A. DAN, G. GOCHEV, CS. KOTSMAR, J. K. FERRI, A. JAVADI, M. KARBASCHI, J. KRAGEL, ; R. WUSTNECK, AND R. MILLER ; 8. CONTROL OF PROTEIN ADSORPTION AND CELL ADHESION BY MIXED POLYMER ; BRUSHES MADE BY THE "GRAFTING-TO" APPROACH ; EVA BITTRICH, SINA BURKERT, KLAUS-JOCHEN EICHHORN, MANFRED STAMM, AND ; PETRA UHLMANN ; 2. COMPUTER SIMULATION OF THE ADSORPTION OF PROTEINS TO SOLID ; SURFACES AND RELATED EXPERIMENTAL WORK ; 9. UNDERSTANDING PROTEIN-SURFACE INTERACTIONS AT THE ATOMISTIC LEVEL THROUGH ; THE SYNERGISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR SIMULATION ; METHODS ; T. ABRAMYAN, G. COLLIER, T. G. KUCUKKAL, X. LI, J. A. SNYDER, A. A. THYPARAMBIL, ; N. A. VELLORE, Y. WEI, J. A. YANCEY, S. J. STUART, AND R. A. LATOUR ; 10. PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES AT GOLD SURFACES: INSIGHTS FROM ATOMISTIC ; SIMULATIONS ; L. BELLUCCI, G. BRANCOLINI, A. CALZOLARI, O. CARRILLO PARRAMON, S. CORNI, AND ; R. DI FELICE ; 3. BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF ; ADSORBED PROTEINS ; 11. PROTEIN?CARBOHYDRATE INTERACTIONS ON THE SURFACES OF GLYCOSYLATED ; MEMBRANES ; JIA LUO AND ZHI-KANG XU ; 12. PROTEIN SURFACE INTERACTIONS AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY: A FORTY YEAR ; PERSPECTIVE ; JOHN L. BRASH ; 13. REGULATION OF PROTEIN/SURFACE INTERACTIONS BY SURFACE CHEMICAL ; MODIFICATION AND TOPOGRAPHIC DESIGN ; DAN LI AND HONG CHEN ; 14. MECHANISMS OF THE FOREIGN BODY RESPONSE TO RFGD PLASMA-GENERATED ; PEO-LIKE FILMS ; LUISA M. SZOTT AND THOMAS A. HORBETT ; 15. EFFECT OF MICROTOPOGRAPHY ON FIBROCYTE RESPONSES AND FIBROTIC TISSUE ; REACTIONS AT THE INTERFACE ; DAVID W. BAKER AND LIPING TANG ; 16. SPECIFIC AND NONSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SALIVARY PROTEINS AND ; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS ; CHUN-PING XU, HENK J. BUSSCHER, HENNY C. VAN DER MEI, AND WILLEM NORDE ; 17. MEASUREMENT OF TIME-DEPENDENT FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF ADSORBED ; FIBRINOGEN AND PLATELET ADHESION ON MATERIAL SURFACES ; LI-CHONG XU, PRANAV SOMAN, BRYAN M. SCHEETZ, AND CHRISTOPHER A. SIEDLECKI ; 18. UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS SURFACTANTS IN GAS ; EMBOLISM ; JOSHUA W. LAMPE, PORTONOVO S. AYYASWAMY, AND DAVID M. ECKMANN ; 19. ANNEXIN A5 BINDING AND REBINDING TO MIXED PHOSPHOLIPID MONOLAYERS ; STUDIED BY SPR AND AFM ; XUEZHONG DU, DAVID W. BRITT, AND VLADIMIR HLADY ; 20. SOIL BINDS PRIONS AND INFLUENCES THEIR BIOLOGIC PROPERTIES ; S. L. BARTELT-HUNT, S. E. SAUNDERS, AND J. C. BARTZ ; 21. ORIENTATION OF ADSORBED ANTIBODIES: IN SITU MONITORING BY QCM AND ; RANDOM SEQUENTIAL ADSORPTION MODELING ; CHRISTINE DUPONT-GILLAIN ; 22. MATERIAL-DRIVEN FIBRONECTIN FIBRILLOGENESIS ; MARCO CANTINI, CRISTINA GONZALEZ-GARCIA, VIRGINIA LLOPIS-HERNANDEZ, AND ; MANUEL SALMERON-SANCHEZ ; 23. EFFECT OF ALBUMIN ADSORPTION ON BIOTRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ARTIFICIAL ; JOINT MATERIALS ; A. P. SERRO, R. COLACO, AND B. SARAMAGO ; 24. SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FACTOR DELIVERY THROUGH AFFINITY-BASED ADSORPTION TO ; STARPEG-HEPARIN HYDROGELS ; A. ZIERIS, S. PROKOPH, K. R. LEVENTAL, P. B. WELZEL, K. CHWALEK, K. SCHNEIDER, ; U. FREUDENBERG, AND C. WERNER ; 25. STRUCTURAL INSIGHT OF ANTIBODY ADSORPTION FOR IMPROVED BIOACTIVITY AND ; DETECTION ; XIUBO ZHAO, MOHAMMED YASEEN, FANG PAN, AND JIAN R. LU ; 4. RESISTANCE TO PROTEIN ADSORPTION ; 26. SYNTHESIS OF GLYCOCALYX-MIMETIC SURFACES AND THEIR SPECIFIC AND ; NONSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS WITH PROTEINS AND BLOOD ; KAI YU AND JAYACHANDRAN N. KIZHAKKEDATHU ; 27. CLARIFICATION OF PROTEIN ADSORPTION AT POLYMER BRUSH SURFACES BASED ON ; WATER STRUCTURE SURROUNDING THE SURFACE ; YUUKI INOUE AND KAZUHIKO ISHIHARA ; 28. POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) AND POLY(CARBOXY BETAINE) BASED NONFOULING ; ARCHITECTURES: REVIEW AND CURRENT EFFORTS ; MOJTABA BINAZADEH, MARYAM KABIRI, AND LARRY D. UNSWORTH ; 29. PEPTIDE ADSORPTION AND FUNCTION AT PENDANT PEO BRUSH LAYERS ; KARL F. SCHILKE AND JOSEPH MCGUIRE ; 30. POLYACRYLAMIDE: EVALUATION OF ULTRALOW FOULING PROPERTIES OF A TRADITIONAL ; MATERIAL ; LINGYUN LIU, QINGSHENG LIU, AND ANURADHA SINGH ; 31. PROTEIN-REPELLENT FUNCTIONALIZABLE SURFACES BASED ON COVALENTLY BONDED ; PHOSPHOLIPIDS WITH PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE HEAD ; LYNDA FEREZ, THIERRY THAMI, LARA TAUK, EDEFIA AKPALO, VALERIE FLAUD, ; ARMAGAN KOCER, JEAN-MARC JANOT, AND PHILIPPE DEJARDIN ; 5. EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES FOR THE STUDY OF PROTEINS AT INTERFACES ; 32. HIGH-THROUGHPUT STUDY OF PROTEIN-SURFACE INTERACTIONS USING A SURFACE ; PLASMON RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS ; YUSUKE ARIMA, RIKA ISHII, ISAO HIRATA, AND HIROO IWATA ; 33. PROBING PROTEIN ASSOCIATION WITH NANO- AND MICRO-SCALE STRUCTURES WITH ; TOF-SIMS ; IVAN M. KEMPSON, YEUKUANG HWU, AND CLIVE A. PRESTIDGE ; 34. SOFT X-RAY SPECTROMICROSCOPY OF PROTEIN INTERACTIONS WITH ; PHASE-SEGREGATED POLYMER SURFACES ; ADAM P. HITCHCOCK, BONNIE O. LEUNG, JOHN L. BRASH, ANDREAS SCHOLL, AND ; ANDREW DORAN ; 35. CHARACTERIZING THE STRUCTURE OF SURFACE-IMMOBILIZED PROTEINS: A SURFACE ; ANALYSIS APPROACH ; JOE E. BAIO, TOBIAS WEIDNER, AND DAVID G. CASTNER ; 36. PROTEIN PATTERNS FABRICATED BY AFFINITY-BASED SURFACE LIGAND SELECTION ; FROM PROTEIN SOLUTION MIXTURES ON A POLYMER HYDROGEL SUBSTRATE ; HIRONOBU TAKAHASHI, DAVID G. CASTNER, AND DAVID W. GRAINGER ; 37. PROTEOMIC APPROACHES TO CHARACTERIZE SURFACE-BOUND PROTEINS AND ; MATERIAL-MEDIATED CELLULAR PROTEINS ; YAO FU AND WEIYUAN JOHN KAO ; 38. STRUCTURE AND STABILITY OF PROTEINS INTERACTING WITH NANOPARTICLES ; LUIGI CALZOLAI, STEFANIA LAERA, GIACOMO CECCONE, AND FRANCOIS ROSSI ; EDITORS' BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEXES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX