Mineralization of the metre-long biosilica structures of glass sponges is templated on hydroxylated collagen

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1084-1088

  Ehrlich, Hermann ^a   Deutzmann, Rainer ^b   Brunner, Eike ^a   Cappellini, Enrico ^c   Koon, Hannah ^c   Solazzo, Caroline ^c   Yang, Yue ^c   Ashford, David ^c   Thomas Oates, Jane ^c   Lubeck, Markus ^d   Baessmann, Carsten ^d   Langrock, Tobias ^e   Hoffmann, Ralf ^e   Wörheide, Gert ^f   Reitner, Joachim ^g   Simon, Paul ^h   Tsurkan, Mikhail ⁱ   Ereskovsky, Aleksander V ^j,k   Kurek, Denis ^a,l   Bazhenov, Vasily V ^a,m   Hunoldt, Sebastian ^a   Mertig, Michael ^a   Vyalikh, Denis V ^a,n   Molodtsov, Serguei L ^a,n   Kummer, Kurt ^a,n   Worch, Hartmut ^a   Smetacek, Victor ^o   Collins, Matthew J ^c   more..

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

ⁱ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^j AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^k ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^l RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^m INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^o ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPONGE (PORIFERA); ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROXYLATION; NANOPARTICLES; PORIFERA; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 78649505250     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.899     Document Type: Article

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