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Figure 5.
FIGURE 5. The mechanism of the function for hydrophobins,
schematic representation. Monomers multimerize to dimers, two of
which form a tetramer. The tetramer may split into two new
dimers with hydrophobic surface areas aligned. These amphiphilic
dimers precede the formation of amphiphilic monolayer on
hydrophobic-hydrophilic interface. At high concentration, excess
hydrophobin forms fibril structures.
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