Abstract
Protein adsorption is the first fundamental interaction between the human body and a foreign surface. The sum of all proteins in this adherent proteinaceous layer comprises the implant proteome. The in situdental implant proteome (implantome) was eluted from four implants of two wettabilities after a 2-min dipping in the humor operationis of maxillar tooth sockets. A mean number of 2056 different polypeptides per implant were identified according to the Xcorr method (Xcorr score ≥ 1.5, n ≥ 2 peptides). In the top 12 proteins comprising ca. 47% of the total abundance, cell-free hemoglobin (26.7%) was the most abundant, followed by fibrinogen (6.4%) and serum albumin (1.8%) with additional 1,800 lower abundance polypeptides, which contained ca. 34 salivary and a similar number of autoimmunogenic polypeptides. Selective enrichment of cell-free hemoglobin on the implant vs. albumin was estimated to 270 fold
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